Published work and reviews:

• Connotation Press

We get warmer as we taste the wine,

herbs, and hummus. The soul puts a shawl on,

as dark wind sweeps over the water

and enters the room.

we always leave the door ajar,

in case Elijah comes by for a drink,

in case we have to leave home again

in the middle of the night

to go back home.

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• qarrtsiluni

There is nothing else as fine and free
as to break up for good with a beloved her
and leave the railroad station all alone.
And then in front of you entirely new
the palaces of Venice would reappear.

• The Best American Poetry- A Longing for World Culture

Any major poet is a universe in itself. This is especially true of Brodsky, who developed the line in Russian poetry that began with the Acmeists: Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Gumilyev. Mandelstam formulated the notion of Acmeism as “the longing for the world culture.” Joseph Brodsky embodied that longing better than anyone else.