“Sonnets with Riff and Hook” by Robert Thomas (poetry ’02)

Poetry alumn Robert Thomas was recently featured with a sonnet crown in The Cincinnati Review. Read an excerpt from “Sonnet with Church and Osso Buco” and find a link to two of the sonnets published online below:

Sonnet with Church and Osso Buco


The mystery of the Song of Songs: the priests’
rationalizations of how the Rose
of Sharon is the Church, the bride of Christ,
or Israel, or a barbecue joint
in Tennessee. Does He feedeth among
the lilies sound like that to you? Get real.