July 14-15, 2001

Featured Poet: Robert Bové
Poem: Epitaph
About the Author: Robert Bové teaches English language and literature at Pace University in Manhattan. He holds a B.A. from UVa. and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. A selection of his poems are included in Real Living, an anthology forthcoming from LSU Press.


Naked in a lake of tears,
unable to feed myself,
I must thank the envious
for giving me a purpose —
this unborn flesh, their cash crop.

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