Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) was the recipient of a number of prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award. She published eighteen books of poetry, most recently, Where I Live: New and Selected Poems (2011). From 1981–1982, she served as the poetry consultant to the Library of Congress (now called U.S. Poet Laureate).
Poetry
Winter 1990
Fat Pets On
I am trying to make a palindrome out of the stencil NO STEP AFT as we sit on the tarmac in Geneva. It says don't tread on me, at least […]
Fiction
Autumn 1993
Bummers
It’s the middle of February, twenty degrees Fahrenheit and some clean, wet snow is falling on the scuffed, stained snow of the sheep pasture. Ariella and Dirk Envers are supposed […]
Poetry
Winter 1990
The Green Well
June. 5 a.m. Before the sun retakes its dips and humps, light rims the field with an aura. Gnats form an ectoplasmic cloud over the bruised bathtub, over the salt […]