Many thanks to the editors of the following publications, where these poems, or versions of them, first appeared: Aspen Sojourner, The Buenos Aires Review, Callaloo, Harvard Review, Granta, Grey Magazine, Likestarlings, Literary Imagination, The Literary Review, Little Star, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, and TSR: The Southampton Review.
“The Odyssey, Book 11, Lines 538–556” appeared in Poem-a-Day via the website of the Academy of American Poets.
And a special thank-you to the Aspen Institute, the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, the Catto Charitable Foundation, and Daniel and Isa Catto Shaw for their grand hospitality.