About Campbell McGrath and New Letters

Today's poem is "Poem Ending with a Line from Robinson Jeffers"

from New Letters

Campbell McGrath is the author of twelve books of poetry, including XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, and Fever of Unknown Origin (Knopf, forthcoming in 2023). He has received numerous literary prizes for his work, including the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, a USA Knight Fellowship, and a Witter-Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic and on the op-ed page of the New York Times, as well as in scores of literary reviews and quarterlies. Born in Chicago, he lives with his family in Miami Beach and teaches at Florida International University, where he is the Philip and Patricia Frost Professor of Creative Writing and a Distinguished University Professor of English.
Other poems by Campbell McGrath in Verse Daily:
December 7, 2015: "The Death of Edward Hopper (1967)" "Night after night the foghorn..."
December 18, 2009: "Sparrows: For Gerald Stern" "Mexican sparrows picking at seeds..."
Books by Campbell McGrath:

Other poems on the web by Campbell McGrath:
Nine poems
Four poems
Six poems
Ten poems
Two poems
Twelve poems
"The Fire"
"Emily and Walt"
"Villanelle"
"The Ticking Clock"
Two poems
Campbell McGrath's Website.
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May 20, 2020: "Vessel, Vassal" by Karen Kovacik
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December 13, 2007: "My Heart" by Kim Addonizio
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February 17, 2007: "Nighties" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 23, 2006: "Aurora Borealis" by Mary Jo Salter
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November 23, 2005: "Migration" by Brian Swann
May 15, 2005: "Water Walking Stick" Stuart Friebert
May 7, 2005: "The Small Toe" Linda Hogan
January 12, 2005: "Awaiting the Return Ferry" by Nance Van Winckel
January 10, 2005: "How Else Today" by Albert Goldbarth
September 29, 2004: "Of Unsent Letters, One" by Jill Osier
September 28, 2004: "Go" and "Gone" by Mark Irwin
September 26, 2004: "Houses Made Only of Entrance" by Abe Louise Young
September 24, 2004: "After Eden" by Linda Pastan
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July 25, 2003: "Meridian" by Mia Leonin
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April 14, 2003: "On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise" by Joanna Goodman
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September 26, 2002: "The Sacrifice" by Jim Simmerman

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