Paul Otremba is the author of the poetry collection The Currency, published by Four Way Books. His poems and criticism have appeared in such places as New England Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, Poetry Daily, Tikkun, and American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics.
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2019
Doctrine of that Bird Once Worshipped on the Shore
Houston, August 31, 2017 A marsh bird coasts over the traffic light flashing red, and hovering farther out, a helicopter stalls, its own version of hummingbird, its thin feeding tube […]
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2019
Climate Is Something Different
This was a heron, and the oddly effortless but dense wedge its body made across the sky, and more odd for being unfamiliar, landing on the puddled roof of the […]
Poetry
Mar/Apr 2016
Old Long Since
It’s a luxury to be this calm, this year confettied over the wine-dark streets, this city in its oil-fed night sweats. We’re going to need a bigger rope and a […]
Poetry
Winter 2008
Noise like Wings
Pressed between hands and what I made of them, then smoothed against the café’s clean window, the page clung to traces of numerous refoldings and the grime-incised fingers of the […]