Kathy Fagan’s fifth collection of poems, Sycamore, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2016. Poems appearing here are from a manuscript in progress. She teaches poetry at Ohio State University.
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
Widows and Brides
Profesoressa Panella released a statement to the Italian press: We have unearthed more than ten rooms, beautiful mosaic floors and frescoed walls. Without photos, I am forced to imagine her […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2015
Structural Engineering
The juvenile giraffe was shot and butchered Before onlookers. We had risen from our moat of fucking To view the footage. Zookeepers feeding its shoulder To the lions. It was […]
Poetry
Fall 2007
Road Memorial
The crucifix bent nearly parallel to earth, the plastic cherubs poised, mid-lim- bo, under each arm of the cross's T were meant to make the unseen visible: X marks the […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
Sign
He said he liked the slouch & lean of it, the Dietrich Garbo Dean & Brando up against the wall of it in both my hand & his. He had […]
Poetry
Summer/ Autumn 1997
Driving It
By then it was late Spring, and the medians and berms had that Morning-after look about them: weedy, unshaven, vaguely Obscene. Anyone could see What a good drunk it had […]
Kathy Fagan
Kathy Fagan’s fifth collection of poems, Sycamore, is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in 2016. Poems appearing here are from a manuscript in progress. She teaches poetry at Ohio State University. […]