Paula Bohince is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Swallows and Waves (Sarabande, 2016). She received a 2022 Fellowship in Translation from the National Endowment for the Arts and the 2021 Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in Pennsylvania.
Poetry
Winter 2023
Songbird
The songbird sipped from a man- made lake and couldn’t discern its poison. The world blinkered like snow at night, and still she performed her cadenza. Now she lies beneath […]
Poetry
Winter 2023
The Bee
The bee buries its memories— mythic, implanted— in holographic flowers, bells flickering, aquiver with pixels, the red silence of roses coming to, as the bee dives for pollen (like love […]
Poetry
Winter 2023
Sumptuary
Ravenous rain finishing through medieval walls, crows and seagulls taking up then their mutual pleasure positions. A flutter of nuns, wimples uplifted when the gate, at last, opened. Lent flat, […]
Poetry
Fall 2010
The Hive
Hangs high, the gaze is high upon the ill-fated head. Sloughed emblem, its combs a bolus of sugar and virus. What is a man if he’s not thinking? Shame and […]
Fall 2008
Catskill Mountain House (1824-1962)
In this rich and privileged light, in true American light, where hung chandeliers, diamond dew- drop earrings, stoles of perfume plundered from the sex of animals, one antique urge dovetails […]