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Andrew Hudgins

Issue November 2009

Villanelle with a Refrain from the Wall Street Journal

Listen the poet read this poem aloud.… More »

Issue May 2009

Under the Maypole

Ribbons, pearl and purple, dangle from the maypole down to the pale hands of children, who pull them, giggling. They purl in breezes, and almost rumple. Under the old eyes of a principal whose narrow glance is ample to subdue but not appall, the children spill around the skinned and limbless maple as if outside the temple of a declining god of simple rituals easily met. Bells peal. Old tunes impose their spell on the awkward small feet…… More »

Issue January 2008

In the Arboretum

Andrew Hudgins's most recent book of poems is Ecstatic in the Poison (2003). He teaches at Ohio State University. poetry, atlantic, trees, storm 56 … More »

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