Author

Amy Newman
Amy Newman’s fourth book of poetry, Dear Editor, is forthcoming in 2011 from Persea Books. She is Presidential Research Professor at Northern Illinois University. [2011]
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Poetry
Oct 09 2011
Poetry Feature: Amy Newman
Featuring the poems: On Safari in the Serengeti with Her Husband Kayo, Anne Sexton Writes Letters to Her Therapist; The Day after the Dean of Michigan State College Admits Him to Lansing Sparrow Hospital for Rest, a Naked Theodore Roethke Barricades Himself behind a Hospital Mattress; When Robert Lowell Sets Up Housekeeping with Latvian Dancer Vija Vetra on West 16th Street; During His Admission Procedure at Abbott Hospital’s Mental Health Unit, John Berryman Discourses on The Scarlet Letter’s Reverend Dimmesdale; When Patricia Hartle Would Give Delmore Schwartz a Ride to His Old Farm Property in New Jersey, He Would Wander about in the Fields for Hours, Calling for a Lost Cat

Poetry
Jun 01 2003
Poems from fall
To divide naturally. Used with into: The specimens fell into three categories. Fallen already, the infallible world and its memory replaced by the fulcrum of words, the accumulation of… read more