A Poem titled “New Year’s Eve” by Carl Dennis
NEW YEAR’S EVE However busy you are, you should still reserve One evening a year for thinking about your double, The man who took the curve on Conway Road Too fast, given the icy patches that night,...
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On Reading the Piece in the New Yorker on the Death of Poet Edward Hirsch’s Son
The article in the August 4th issue, “Finding the Words” begins: In October, 1988, my friends Janet Landy and Edward Hirsch flew to New Orleans to adopt a boy who was six days old. He was...
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“Fable”–a poem by Louise Glück
Though the poem, “Fable” by Louise Glück is not meant to be about adoption, it resonated with me nonetheless. But not in the way you might think. Not pitting adoptive mother against birth mother. For...
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