Poets Do Pop
{An Umbrella Special Feature}


Robert Demaree
is a retired educator and the author of three collections of poetry, including Fathers and Teachers, published April 2007 by Beech River Books.  His poems have also been published or accepted by some eighty periodicals, including Louisville Review, Mobius, Cold Mountain Review, Paris/Atlantic and The Aurorean.

The winner of the 2007 Conway Library Poetry Award, he lives in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire and Burlington,  North Carolina. 


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NCAA Basketball Tournament
First Round, March 2000

By late March, klieg-light, got-game madness
Persuades that all but one are losers.
Give me the round of 64:
Unlikely champions from improbable places
Dream foolish dreams for about two hours,
Then file out as others file in:
The point guard, head down, who missed the shot;
The tuba player, chubby, freckled;
The cheerleaders, damp, spent,
As if disappointed in some act of love.
Disposable cameras click:
They would remind themselves
On slow afternoons in bank offices
That they had been to the dance.



 
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