Michael Robins

Michael Robins is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently In Memory of Brilliance & Value (Saturnalia Books, 2015). He teaches literature and creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. For more information, visit www.michaelrobins.org

In Lieu of Flowers by Michael Robins

This entry was posted in Poetry and tagged Michael Robins on July 14, 2020 by Wendy Chen

—for Huda Al-Jaburi She dreams beneath the washed-out trees & the other, tell me again of his heart cornered like a rat when the sliver moon rises early, delights at last the rabid dog while we rewind our clocks against reason so even the hour […]

Crumbs Fit Such Little Mouths by Michael Robins

This entry was posted in Poetry and tagged Michael Robins on October 14, 2016 by Kristina Marie Darling

Up I raise a fence inside my fence to keep out obviousness, canned ideas kit & caboodle, everything an end. Remind me, remind me to face forward, expecting petals, tenuous stem misconstrued & likewise me a poor listener, wheeled color when a face could stay. I flunk knowledge […]