Poem of the Week | October 23, 2017

Michael Shewmaker: “Anniversary”
This week, we are excited to present a new poem by Michael Shewmaker. Shewmaker is the author of Penumbra (Ohio UP, 2017), which won the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His poems recently appear in Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Sewanee Review, Poetry Daily, Parnassus, Oxford American, Narrative, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University.
Anniversary
Author’s Note:
With “Anniversary,” I wanted to write an honest love poem—a poem that avoids the pitfalls of sentimentality but manages to say something heartfelt. I especially had in mind the embers of a long love versus the wildfires of a new attraction. First and foremost, though, this is a poem for my wife.
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