Albert Goldbarth has been publishing books for nearly fifty years. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Saving Lives and for Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology, the only poet to receive the honor two times. Goldbarth’s other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Milt Kessler Award. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry and multiple appearances in The Best American Poetry series and The Pushcart Prize. He lives in Wichita, Kansas.

Other poems by Albert Goldbarth in Verse Daily:
February 2, 2018:   "The Song of the Practical" "Increasingly, those water lilies of Claude Monet's..."
November 25, 2017:   "Wrist Beep" "Once there weren't even cell phones..."
January 6, 2016:   "Flowers" "Ah, the soul . . . that taxi driver...."
February 17, 2015:   "Secondary" "En route to the Earth—that's..."
September 29, 2008:   "An Explanation" "I wanted to say..."
September 5, 2005:   "Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" b"We believed they were horses; and so..."
January 10, 2005:  "How Else Today" "That justly famous scene where all the monster..."

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