Jennifer Grotz is the author of The Needle and Cusp and translator from French of Patrice de La Tour du Pin’s Psalms of All My Days, recently published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She teaches at the University of Rochester and serves as assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2019
O Drawer!
Shelter for the sinful word, o drawer, odyssey so vast, made of oak, homeric! You will be the coffin that once served as a cradle, sinister imagination’s respite, a hollow […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2019
Incantation
o water that takes your own shape when you are very small o single-celled your name is a drop you persist from high to low not knowing a vessel o […]
Poetry
Summer 2013
The Elm Tree
I look up, and there it is, a Gothic bloom, frozen explosion sharp against the sky. It's going to come down, but the poem happens just before that. The poem […]
Poetry
Summer 2003
Arrival in Rome
I. My head aches, and the stale air burns my throat, pricks me into sweat and dream. The train rushes its heavy skeleton, shakes my head side to side in […]