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Sept/Oct 2016 • Vol. XXXVIII No. 5 Poetry |

The Man Transfused with the Blood of a Sheep

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Clare Rossini’s most recent book, Lingo, was published by the University of Akron Press. She is currently completing a collection that includes poems about science, technology, and climate change. She is artist-in-residence at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where she directs a program placing Trinity students in a public school arts classroom.

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