Tim Seibles
Tim Seibles, recently the Poet Laureate of Virginia, is the author of six collections of poetry, including Hurdy-Gurdy, Buffalo Head Solos, and Fast Animal—which was a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award and winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. His latest, One Turn Around the Sun, was released in 2017. Tim lives in Norfolk, Virginia, where he is a professor of English and creative writing at Old Dominion University.
Reading List
How Could You Blues Villanelle
We fall for this life again and again First light folds like a fleece on the cars Did you never think it ever could end? Though the chance for getting it right seems slim And the news of our days runs cruel and bizarre We fall for this life again and again I often wonder […]
And Yet,
the poem remains unafraid: a black Pegasus tattooed on its bare chest. Do whatever you want! the poem taunts, as people steady the scaffold and test the noose. It’s dawn. The poem’s been awake for hours wondering why it has to be this way, when once there was song and so much promise. Do your […]