About Aliki Barnstone and New Letters

Today's poem is "Elegy for Michelle Beginning with One of Her Last Lines"

from New Letters

Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, editor, and visual artist. She is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently Dwelling (Sheep Meadow, 2016). She translated The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy (W.W. Norton, 2006). Among her awards are a Senior Fulbright Fellowship in Greece, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and residencies at the Anderson Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is Professor of English at the University of Missouri and served as poet laureate of Missouri (2016-2019).
Other poems by Aliki Barnstone in Verse Daily:
November 12, 2004: "Rowing on Lake Mendota" "The plump at the catch. The common exhalation...."
Books by Aliki Barnstone:

Other poems on the web by Aliki Barnstone:
"Blue Is Greece"
Four poems
"Children's Literature"
Aliki Barnstone According to Wikipedia.
Aliki Barnstone on Twitter.
About New Letters:

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Other poems from New Letters in Verse Daily:
March 22, 2020: "Armed Neighbor" by Carl Dennis
November 9, 2019: "'Old Ghost Appears Before the Un-American Committee and Refuses to Remove His Hat'" by Roy Bentley
November 8, 2019: "Alaska" by Dion O'Reilly
November 7, 2019: "Three Poems" by Gary Young
May 16, 2019: "What Jazz Isn't" Richard Terrill
May 15, 2019: "'Io Sano Una Bella Luna'" David Thoreen
May 14, 2019: "Nothing Will Warn You" Stephen Dunn
April 18, 2019: "Murmurations" Allison Funk
April 17, 2019: "Ce qu'il reste à vivre" Benjamin Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
February 21, 2015: "Material" by Jessica Anne Cuello
February 18, 2015: "Lost" by Eric Pankey
February 17, 2015: "Secondary" by Albert Goldbarth
December 18, 2014: "Valentine" by Joseph Millar
November 26, 2014: "Winter Wind" by Stephen Dobyns
June 19, 2013: "Incantations to Snow" by Lawrence Revard
November 24, 2012: "Rembrandt, 'Self-Portrait, 1639'" by Peter Cooley
November 11, 2011: "Contra Chekhov" by Michael Salcman
January 27, 2010: "Tails" by Maxine Kumin
October 4, 2008: "Woven and Sewn" by Nancy White

October 3, 2008: Dante's The Inferno "Canto I" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang
September 29, 2008: "An Explanation" by Albert Goldbarth
December 13, 2007: "My Heart" by Kim Addonizio
December 11, 2007: "Uncles (Play)" by Kevin Young
November 24, 2007: "Watermelon" by Alice Friman
June 9, 2007: "Aware of Angels" by Mark Jarman
February 20, 2007: "The Deer" by Michael Chitwood
February 17, 2007: "Nighties" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 23, 2006: "Aurora Borealis" by Mary Jo Salter
May 29, 2006: "Quail" by Dore Kiesselbach
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
May 16, 2004: "Wild Things in a Dream" by Heather Ross Miller
January 21, 2004: "With Two Camels and One Donkey" by Robin Becker
July 25, 2003: "Meridian" by Mia Leonin
May 26, 2003: "The Flag of My Disposition" by Elaine Sexton
April 14, 2003: "On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise" by Joanna Goodman
February 3, 2003: "Passing Through the Shadows Of Great Buildings" by Nance Van Winckel
January 6, 2003: "Bid Me Be the Bird" by Nance Van Winckel
September 26, 2002: "The Sacrifice" by Jim Simmerman

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