Ladies & Gentlemen
With lushness and a perplexity reminiscent of Wallace Stevens, the poems of Michael Robins’ second collection blend allusion—late-20th century rock lyrics to the Gettysburg Address—and negotiate feeling amid a troubled history of...
The Next Settlement
“Grief repairs grief,” Michael Robins writes in The Next Settlement, and in these meditative poems, voices map the world with precision as a way to mend the holes they find in it. Pristine natural landscapes provide a jarring...
Chapbooks, Etc.
“What light in the sky to leave, what flags / through town, their white Qs. How I was // as I had been has nothing against captains, / with distance between an awkward door // & fence, in what appear to be the stars / in a month in...
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Recent Publications & News
3/14/12 – Podcast of Anne Kepler Come Home” featured today at InDigest.
3/10/12 – “Nothing Says Love Like a Bondsman” and one poem from Match forthcoming in Black Tongue Review.
1/12/12 – “Sleep Is Not Unlike a Waiting Room,” the opening poem of Ladies & Gentlemen, featured today at Verse Daily.
12/30/11 – “A Marathon of Deletions” and “Poem for James Shea” published in Mid-American Review, Vol XXXI Number 2.
12/21/11 – “Sailing Back to Livorno,” “Wooden Bridge & Wooden Water,” and “Massachusetts” published in Arsenic Lobster.
12/13/11 – Five poems from Match forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review.
11/17/11 – “Sculptures of Virginia Woolf” featured on Poem-a-Day at the Academy of American Poets.
11/9/11 – Two poems from Match published in Colorado Review, Fall 2011 (contents).
10/19/11 – “Anthem,” originally published in Conduit and included in Ladies & Gentlemen, here at Verse Daily.
"Michael Robins taps into the harsh murmurs of the daily world." —John Yau Learn More