Clare Rossini’s most recent book, Lingo, was published by the University of Akron Press. She is currently completing a collection that includes poems about science, technology, and climate change. She is artist-in-residence at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she directs a program placing Trinity students in a public school arts classroom.
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2016
The Man Transfused with the Blood of a Sheep
London, November 1667 Arthur Coga,Once student of Pembroke College, Who read in perfect Latin the lessons at Wilkins ChurchBefore growing “a bit crackt” and soon, without “sound employ,”— Not a […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2016
Anatomy, Brief History of
Once we had time enough, and the tools To assuage our curiosity, even then Some shunned the act: Galen of Pergamum confining his excursions To the innards of Barbary apes, […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
The Great Chain of Being
The rain cowing ferns the feral twittering of stars What extremity roosts In the small hard hut of a snail? Furiously, creation exudes its particulars We put them in order […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
Manhattan Saturday
On West 44th grass sprouting in a sidewalk crack looks feisty As a cut dreamed up in an East Village salon How, grass do you do? Here, in the wild […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
The Song of the Dusky Seaside Sparrow
Trebles through my tinny speakers hauled in by a mouse-click From an archive at Cornell How sound travels these days! So clear, I can almost see the bird Swaying on a […]
Poetry
Fall 2013
A Duet in Mud Season
Chump of green Slattern of daffodil the cherry rouses pink And innocent again the dove mourns in the rough Effusive maple Too-hoo, too-hoo and who Shall answer it Speak as earnestly in nonhuman syllables […]
Poetry
Fall 2010
The Anatomy of May
Hooded and strapped. Buried in dirt. Locked in the strait of seed. Calling, calling, The birds through the morning freshet, The worm in its slow lope Through the Dark Night […]
Poetry
Fall 2010
Biology Lab, St. Joseph’s School for Girls
At long metal tables, we opened Gray worms, each a slim, deft, harrowing universe, or Was it the mind We dissected beneath the watchful eyes of the Virgin Mary Installed […]
Poetry
Summer 2001
Brief History of a Sentence
In the beginning, The universe, i.e., great outward rush of fires and nights, and at its edge, Among thickets of matter fraying, a star Devolving into helium and its sidekick, […]
Poetry
Spring 1987
‘Life before Birth,’ a Display
(The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, 1963) The first was curled and so smallIt shone like a remote star caughtIn the crossed bars of the museum lights.The next was […]
Poetry
Spring 1987
A Mourning Dove in New York City
I hear its cryptic trillAnd I’m back twenty years, in bedAt my grandmother’s, wakingOn sheets scarred by her mending. Downstairs, the clock chimes;My grandmother’s steps begin to traceThe choreography of […]
Poetry
Spring 1987
Portrait: Woman, Aged Thirty, Posed on Flowered Couch
She thought the education of the soulCame all at once, as it didFor Saul, lucky boy, trailedBy lightning until the right moment,Crawling out from under his horseWith a new name […]
Weekend Reads
‘Life Before Birth,’ A Display
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1987, Vol. IX, No, 2 The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, 1963 The first was curled and so small It shone like […]
Clare Rossini
Clare Rossini’s most recent book, Lingo, was published by the University of Akron Press. She is currently completing a collection that includes poems about science, technology, and climate change. She […]