George Franklin's most recent poetry collections are Remote Cities (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023), and a collaboration with Colombian poet Ximena Gómez, Conversaciones sobre agua/Conversations About Water (Katakana Editores, 2023). Individual publications include Sheila-Na-Gig, Cultural Daily, Cagibi, Rattle, Another Chicago Magazine, and New York Quarterly. He practices law in Miami and teaches writing workshops in Florida prisons for Exchange for Change. He is the first prize winner of the 2023 W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize.

Other poems by George Franklin in Verse Daily:
May 13, 2021:   "While I Slept" "While I was asleep, a flock of geese landed in the tree by the fence..."
April 5, 2019:   "Barcelona" "BI imagine you on a cold day in Barcelona, wind.."

Books by George Franklin:

Other poems on the web by George Franklin:
Three poems
Three poems
Four poems
"An Early Flight"
"The Saint of Unbelievers"
"The Protagonist"
"The Memoirist"
Two poems
Three poems
"Letting Go"
"Speaking of Love"
Four poems
Two poems
"The Way It Is Now"
Two poems
"Origami"
"Of Arms and the Man"
"Vallejo in Paris"

George Franklin's Website.

About Remote Cities:

"The poems in George Franklin's Remote Cities are poems for grown-ups, for people who know what it is to have loved, to have been disappointed in love, to have recovered love. They are wise, thoughtful, self-effacing, realistic about nature and human nature, without illusion but also without bitterness. They understand what it is to find one's self embedded among the complex ties of family and family history, with all its unsolved issues of duty and responsibility. They understand, without posing and without extenuation, what it is to live in a fallen political and historical world in which there are few unmixed institutions and few soluble problems. They see human life in the widest context, as they are reflected in history, poetry, fine art, and the way the classic stories face us with but do not solve the dark puzzle of our being. To all of these George Franklin brings an acute eye for detail, and a sad, knowing, and thoughtful sense of what it is to be alive and to know that life all the way through."
—John Burt

"If Robert Hass was right, in that all the new thinking about loss resembles the old thinking, what can be done to restore our lives and world? Remote Cities gathers the lost tribes, from antiquity to modernity to now, in a collection ritually anchored by the presence and body of the beloved, 'mi amor': her nightgown, white shoulders, and the memories, walks, and sensuous meals they share. Reminding us that every person, poem, era, and artwork is a1so looking back at the perceiver, Franklin has done the heretofore impossible: write an epic love poem that, in its refusal of death and dying, casts a new narrative song on the world's 'utter wreck,' making stars shine brighter than before. "
—Virginia Konchan