I am honored to be the featured American poet for May 2023 in the UK journal The High Window. The previously unpublished poems were written over many years—one of them almost thirty years ago and one just a few months ago.
I have always tried to include poems that address history–personal, political, social–in some way. I don’t think this has changed. The natural world and the visual image have always been important to my poetic vision and self (probably stemming in large part from growing up in Hawaii and living for several early years in a defunct artists’ colony surrounded by art and a tropical rainforest)–I’d like to think I have gotten better as an observer of those worlds.
(The above paragraph is excerpted from an online interview with me—”Becoming a Poet” by Mary Mackey, June 2017.)
You can find the unpublished poems here.