Robert Cording
Robert Cording has published ten collections of poems, the most recent of which is In the Unwalled City (Slant, 2022). A book on poetry, the Bible, and metaphor, Finding the World’s Fullness, is also out from Slant. He has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in poetry. His poems appear in two Pushcart Prize anthologies and publications such as the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, Poetry, the Hudson Review, the Kenyon Review, Image, The Common, AGNI, New Ohio Review, Orion, and TheBest American Poetry 2018.
Reading List
Hydrangea
My burning bush spoke in the hum of bees that day, the hydrangea a commonwealth of blooms. After a night’s rain, cones of new flowers, the water wells of its name, shivered with sunlight. The bush could have been the center around which everything hummed, was dependent on that hum— the rain, […]