Steve Kronen
Steve Kronen’s Splendor appeared from BOA in 2006. His poetry has appeared in The New Republic, The American Scholar, Poetry, Agni, APR, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He has been a fellow at Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, received an NEA, two Florida Arts Council grants, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. His first book, Empirical Evidence, won the Contemporary Poetry Series prize and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1992.
Reading List
Why You Shouldn’t Let Your Adult Children Move Back Home: On Hamlet, Yorick, Fortinbras and God
I Hamlet’s most enduring relationship is with the sense-making absurdist Yorick the Fool, dead 23 years. As a boy, Hamlet rode joyfully upon Yorick’s back, his young head raised heavenward. Now the wistful adult Hamlet, kneeling by Yorick’s unearthed grave, raises Yorick’s head upward, …
The Odds
— for Ivonne, five years post-cancer The sternum’s gladiolus (L: small sword) bisects the chest cavity coronally where the wan blood’s re-oxygenated just beneath your sweater’s V, the monotonous muscle squeezing out its tattoo, as it must in order to …
Eros Is Eros Is Eros
An olive hue, too, says my wife. Close to sleep we’ve sailed, adrift and determined as Bligh himself, from Bounty to Christian to Gauguin’s self-possessed women. Stars and moon and then a comet beyond our window, and I’m off on …