2016 poetry alum Jill Klein was recently featured in the Cider Press Review. Read an excerpt of “On the Patio” below:

On the Patio

Every day something green
snaps by, in front, behind. Again.

A hummingbird mother,
her nest cupped in the rose bush next to me.

Two eggs the size of jellybeans,
soon birds so tight in the nest

one sits on the other
until they fly,

following the mother’s call,
her breeze,

as she hovers, eyes gleaming…

Read this poem in its entirety here: https://ciderpressreview.com/cpr-volume-23-6/on-the-patio/

Poetry faculty member and 1990 alum Daniel Tobin was recently featured in Berfrois. Read an excerpt of “Triumph and Laments” below:

Triumphs and Laments

(the mural by William Kentridge)

As though these words were shadows sprayed
across a wall of travertine
such figures resurrect the scene
blanched to presence on this page—

stone, really, the white river wall
stenciled with attributes of moss
and merely human detritus,
its negative space colossal.

Here within this running frieze
Romulus murders again his twin,
soldiers behead barbarians
while a saint sighs in ecstasy.

Here lovers in a fountain splash
wildly for La Dolce Vita,
as the broken march defeated
to where the ghetto flies to ash.

Read this poem in its entirety, as well as another, here: https://www.berfrois.com/2022/01/triumphs-and-laments-and-roar-by-daniel-tobin/

2016 poetry alum Joseph J. Capista was recently featured in Thrush. Read an excerpt of “Spoila” below:

Spoila

  —​After John Lowden’s Early Christian and Byzantine Art

How do
you
picture
God
should
images
of Christ
show Him
as young
& beardless
with long
dark hair
& curling
beard
or as
a lamb

Read this poem in its entirety here: https://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/january-2022-joseph-j-capista.html

Robert Thomas, a 2002 poetry alum, was recently featured in TriQuarterly. Read an excerpt of Thomas’s poem “Sonnet with Quartz and Rice” below:

The two-edged sword of being human and
knowing it: blades of grass never compare
themselves to an oak or look in mirrors.
I never love you more than when I watch
you look at your reflection and relish
what you see. Only a human would do
something so dirty and shrewd and divine.

Read this poem in its entirety (and hear Thomas read it) here: https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-161/sonnet-quartz-and-rice

Poetry faculty member Daisy Fried was recent featured in On the Seawall. Read an excerpt of Fried’s poem “Hate Barrel,” a poem after Baudelaire, below:

Hate’s a drunk in the stickiest dive,

Its thirst gives birth to thirst

That multiplies like Hydra’s heads.

But lucky drunks know their oppressor

Hate’s doomed to a dismal fate:  

Dumbass can’t even pass out under the table.

after “Le Tonneau de la haine”

Read this poem in its entirety, as well as two others, here: https://www.ronslate.com/hate-barrel-white-on-white-twilight-correspondences/