Dante DiStefano
Dante DiStefano is a Ph. D. candidate at Binghamton University. His poems have appeared recently in Brilliant Corners, The Grove Review, Nimrod and elsewhere. He was the First Place Winner of the 2012 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, given by the Poetry Center in Paterson, N.J.
Reading List
Breaking a Window on the World: The Poetry of Marie Howe
In a murderous time/ the heart breaks and breaks/ and lives by breaking. —Stanley Kunitz (from “The Testing Tree”) …We were still men,/ but maimed. Another kind of hurt lodged/ where happiness had smoldered, another kind/ of ruin, and summer …