Kathy Fagan is the author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. She is also the author of four previous collections, including The Charm; The Raft, winner of the National Poetry Series; and MOVING & ST RAGE, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize. Fagan’s work has appeared in venues such as the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, the New Republic, Best American Poetry, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and served as the Frost Place poet in residence. Fagan is cofounder of the MFA program at The Ohio State University, where she teaches poetry, and coedits the Wheeler Poetry Prize Book Series for The Journal and The Ohio State University Press.
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Dedicated
Forest
Stray
Animal Prudence
Cooper’s Hawk
Farm Evening in the Blue Smoke
At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center
AccuWeather: Real Feel
Keelson
Dahlia
Foreshortening
Cognition
My Father
Bad Hobby
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Empire
Fountain
The Rule of Three
Helvetica
Omphalos
The Ghost on the Handle
Predator Satiation
AccuWeather: Episodes of Sunshine
The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs
Birds Are Public Animals of Capitalism
Personal Item
The Children
“Where I Am Going”/“I Dare to Live”
Topless
Mint
Morning
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Latecomer
What Kind of Fool Am I
Conqueror
School
AccuWeather: Windy, with Clouds Breaking
Window
Trace
Wisdom
Aftermath
My Mother
Ohio Spring Jingo
Snow Moon & the Dementia Unit
Scarlet Experiment
Lucky Star
Inactive Fault, with Echoes
Notes
Acknowledgments
