Barbara Crooker is the author of the forthcoming "American Melancholy: Poems" (Ecco). She is Visiting Distinguished Professor in the English Dept. at Rutgers for the spring term 2021.

Other poems by Barbara Crooker in Verse Daily:
December 26, 2019:   "Personal History" "Tell me about the light you have lost...."
February 15, 2017:   "My Heart" "I want a new heart..."
August 24, 2013:   "Vaudeville" "Late October, and the sky is that clear blue scrim..."
August 8, 2006:   "Hummingbird" " He comes every day, in his crushed-emerald cape, flashing in front..."
July 11, 2004:  "Walking in Monet's Gardens at Giverny" "with my husband of eighteen years, down a path..."

Books by Barbara Crooker:

Other poems on the web by Barbara Crooker:
"Listen"
"In the Middle"
Three poems
Two poems
"Poem with an Embedded Line by Susan Cohen"
"Surfer Girl"
"Bal du Moulin de la Galette"
"​Late Painting: Path Under the Rose Arches"
"Grief"
"Reel"
"Hopper's Women"
"Frida Kahlo Speaks"
Five poems
Five poems
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Some October"
"Murmuration"
Two poems
"Solstice"
"Election Ghazal"
"Ode to Chocolate"

Barbara Crooker's Website.

Barbara Crooker on Twitter.

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