poems

Rachel Hadas is Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University. The latest of her many books of poetry is The River of Forgetfulness (2006); The Ache of Appetite is forthcoming in 2009 from Copper Beech press. She is currently coediting an anthology of Greek poetry in translation from Homer to the present, forthcoming from Norton at the end of 2009.

Gilbert Allen, a frequent contributor to Able Muse, has published four books of verse (In Everything, Second Chances, Commandments at Eleven, Driving to Distraction) as well as the chapbook Body Parts.  His sequence of poems “The Assistant” received the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Prize from The Southern Review.  Other recent work has appear