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Timothy Donnelly

Timothy Donnelly’s fourth book of poems, Chariot, will be published this spring by Wave Books. His previous collections include The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019), winner of the inaugural Big Other Award for Poetry. Donnelly teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn.

Poetry

Spring 2023

Wandering Castle

By Timothy Donnelly

The door kept galloping backwards into the wine-dark wood but the music behind it grew louder by the bar and increasingly out of tune. And what a wake of crushed […]