Lee Harlin Bahan is a poet and translator with a Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University of Bloomington. Notes to Sing was published in 2016 by Finishing Line Press. Her chapbook Migration Solo won the first Indiana Poetry Chapbook Contest and was published in 1989 by the Writers’ Center Press of Indianapolis.
Poetry
Spring 1991
Drilling the Troops
General Steuben remarked disgustedly that bayonets were chiefly used as skewers to broil meat. JOHN B. B. TRUSSELL, JR., Epic on the Schuylkill “. . . . in Himmel. Ass mit […]
Poetry
Spring 1991
Hope
. . .is the thing with feathers— DICKINSON Too much torque on a wing, and the branchesof the box elder, honeysuckle vines, disappear. Each smack, when panic bouncesthe bird off concrete […]
Poetry
Spring 1991
Last Bard in Wales
(after a painting in the exhibit, “Wordsworth and the age of English Romanticism”) Now what I want to know is how this old man with hair in his eyes and […]
Hope
from the Kenyon Review, New Series, Spring 1991, Vol. XIII, No. 2 . . . is the thing with feathers— Dickinson Too much torque on a wing, and the branches […]