Reading: Beauty by Tony Hoagland
Saddened by the death of Tony Hoagland (1953 - 2018), the sharp and witty American poet, I read one of his poems today. Beauty When the medication she was taking caused tiny vessels in her face to break, leaving faint but permanent blue stitches in her cheeks, my sister said she knew she would never ...
Reading: Lucky by Tony Hoagland
Tony Hoagland (1953 - 2018) was a witty and acerbic poet from North Carolina. Many awards. Some great and demonically intense poems. Here goes: Lucky If you are lucky in this life, you will get to help your enemy the way I got to help my mother when she was weakened past the point of ...