Connie Voisine’s first book, Cathedral of the North, was published in 2001 by University of Pittsburgh Press, winner of the AWP Award in Poetry. Her second book, Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream was published in spring 2008 by The University of Chicago Press. Her latest collection, Calle Florista, was published by The University of Chicago […]
St. Exupery stayed in the hotel between flights for the postal service. Then, they navigated by landmarks— a farmhouse, a body of water—and, when those were made invisible, a compass, and flashlight. No wonder he imagined a prince on a tiny planet as he hurled himself against the constellations. The world was a dark scroll […]
I lived in somebody else’s holy city, and this was the truth— pilgrims wandered in their suits and hose dazzled by blue mountains, numerous plain monuments to holy things I did not believe were real. I lived with a man, kind, but too sad to be of consolation. I remember the edge of his face, […]
The plane is packed and over sweaty heads, rumpled hair, the movie glows in the transatlantic nighttime murmur of priests and nuns and Riverdancers returning home—a baby is cooed by an older mother, a boy feels for his seat in the dark. I’ve read my books already, 2 days travelling, the difficulties technical. I hate […]
Connie Voisine, author of Cathedral of the North (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) amd the forthcoming Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, talks about a current poetry project.
Connie Voisine, author of Cathedral of the North (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) amd the forthcoming Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, offers some advice to young writers.
Connie Voisine, author of Cathedral of the North (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001) amd the forthcoming Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, reads and talks about a poem she wishes she’d written, This Living Hand, by John Keats