The Missouri Review

This week, we gladly present Joe Osterhaus’ original poem “Eden.”  Osterhaus is the author of Radiance (Zoo Press) and The Domed Road (Graywolf Press, in Take Three: AGNI New Poets Series). His work has appeared most recently in Slate, The Yale Review, and The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets. He was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2004 and Tennessee Williams Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the University of the South in 2005.

[Read this poem.]