Stephen Corey has published nine collections of poems, most recently There Is No Finished World (White Pine Press, 2003). He has co-edited four books in three genres, and he has been with The Georgia Review since 1983, where he is currently serving as editor—and, as of 2014, editor of the new Georgia Review book series under the auspices of the University of Georgia Press. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in many periodicals, among them Shenandoah, The American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers, and the Kenyon Review. Corey has taught at the University of Florida, where he also earned his PhD in English, and at the University of South Carolina, and he has served as poet-in-residence or visiting poet/editor for a number of conferences and writing programs across the United States.
Poetry
Spring 1998
Measures
I knew a woman who wouldn’t trust a man who wouldn’t eat zucchini plain– something about simplicity, readiness to live far down the line from blood and thundering. The oddest […]
Poetry
Summer 1990
Making the Mouth
The tongue takes its many shapes quick-sung with soft exactitude: the drawing back and down of H, the upward flick of L— that sweet snail of thought made flesh all […]
Poetry
Summer 1989
Hunger
We lost ourselves in the caves, the homes, that our mouths could be. Knowing the kiss was invented, we let ourselves be the ancient flesh first in the world to […]
Poetry
Autumn 1988
Attacking the Pietà
On May 21, Michelangelo’s Vatican Pietà was assaulted by Lazlo Toth, 33, a Hungarian-born Australian geologist who scaled a marble balustrade in St. Peter’s Basilica and lashed out with a […]