Mark Strand lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia. In 2009 he received the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Knopf published his collection of prose pieces Almost Invisible in 2012.
Poetry
Winter 2012
Nobody Knows What Is Known
A man and a woman were on a train. The man said, "Are we going someplace? I don't think so, not this time. This is already the next century, and […]
Poetry
Winter 2012
Harmony in the Boudoir
After years of marriage, he stands at the foot of the bed and tells his wife that she will never know him, that for everything he says there is more […]
Poetry
Winter 2012
Love Silhouetted by Lamplight
The arm of smoke, grown thin, reaches across the water and settles briefly on a small house near the woods. A husband and wife, each with a drink in hand, […]
Poetry
Winter 2012
When I Turned a Hundred
I wanted to go on an immense journey, to travel night and day into the unknown until, forgetting my old self, I came into possession of a new self, one […]