Barbara Hamby's "Ode to Paradis and the Longing for a Place that Never Was" will appear in her new book, Burn, which will be published in October 2025 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. She teaches at Florida State University where she is Distinguished University Scholar.

Other poems by Barbara Hamby in Verse Daily:
April 7, 2014:   "Ode to Augurs, Ogres, Acorns, and Two or Three Things That Have Been Eating at My Heart Like a Wolverine in a Time of Famine" "So many birds are flying above my house it must mean..."
July 28, 2005:   "Tongues Jesus has come into the mockingbird's heart..."
February 15, 2005:  "Thus Spake the Mockingbird" The mockingbird says, Hallelujah, coreopsis, I make the day..."
January 30, 2003: 

Other poems on the web by Barbara Hamby:
Four poems
Twelve poems
"Ode on My Nightingale"
"Ode to My Younger Self"
Four poems
"VI. Penelope’s Lament"
"The Word"
"Box Ode"
Two poems

Barbara Hamby's Website.

What the House Knows
Editor: Diane Lockward
Other poems from What the House Knows in Verse Daily:
April 15, 2025:   "The Holy Whispers" by Jim Daniels
April 14, 2025:   "If I Should Come Upon Your House Lonely in the West Texas Desert" by Natalie Diaz
April 11, 2025:   "No One Told Me About the Death" by Michelle Bitting