Stephen Edgar

'The Art of the Fugue', a new poem by Stephen Edgar

December 2014, no. 367 • 01 December 2014

So, summoned by that call across the wideAnd complicated city, pressedAnd yet reluctant to arrive,We found among the ranks of the distressed,The sick, the stricken and the stupefied,Her shocked, unconscious form in South Ward Five.And then I turned aside. ... (read more)

Stephen Edgar reviews 'The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine' edited by Don Share and Christian Wiman

February 2013, no. 348 • 27 January 2013

‘Reading through a hundred years of Poetry, week after week of issue after issue after issue, some forty thousand poems in all, Don and I, when we weren’t rendered prone and moaning, jolted back and forth between elation and depression.’ So Christian Wiman writes in his introduction to this elating, and never depressing, new anthology celebrating one hundred years of Poetry Magazine. Bear in ... (read more)

'Grand Canyon', a new poem by Stephen Edgar

July–August 2012, no. 343 • 08 July 2012

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'Morandi and the Hard Problem', a new poem by Stephen Edgar

July–August 2011, no. 333 • 29 June 2011

Morandi and the Hard Problem ... (read more)

'Moonlight Sculptures', a new poem by Stephen Edgar

March 2011, no. 329 • 12 April 2011

Moonlight Sculptures ... (read more)