Poem: ‘Day Off’
Jorie Graham, 3 January 2008
from the cadaver beginning to show through the skin of the day. The future without days. Without days of it? in it? I try to – just for a...
Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham, the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-94. Her other collections include The End of Beauty, P L A C E and Runaway. To 2040 came out in 2023.
Poem: ‘Nearing Dawn’
Jorie Graham, 4 October 2007
Sunbreak. The sky opens its magazine. If you look hard it is a process of falling and squinting – & you are in- terrupted again and...
Poem: ‘Underworld’
Jorie Graham, 19 July 2007
After great rain. Gradually you are revealing yourself to me. The lesson carves a tunnel through an occupied territory. Great beaches come into existence, are laved for centuries, small...
Poem: ‘Futures’
Jorie Graham, 5 July 2007
Midwinter. Dead of. I own you says my mind. Own what, own
whom. I look up. Own the looking at us
say the cuttlefish branchings, lichen-black, moist. Also
...
Poem: ‘Sea Change’
Jorie Graham, 7 June 2007
One day: stronger wind than anyone expected. Stronger than ever before in the recording of such. Un- natural says the news. Also the body says it. Which part of the body – I look down, can...
Pieces about Jorie Graham in the LRB
Chi Chi Trillip Trillip: Jorie Graham looks ahead
Fiona Green, 23 October 2025
For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and measure – harbour a fullness of time which is neither mere chronology nor novelistic...
Indigo, Cyanine, Beryl: Jorie Graham’s Daring
Helen Vendler, 23 January 2003
The new volume of poems by my Harvard colleague Jorie Graham, in its US edition, bears on its jacket a detail from Vermeer’s The Astronomer, showing the hand of the astronomer as it...
Accidents of Priority
John Redmond, 22 August 1996
Famous poems, like faces, are a particularly memorable kind of introduction to the person they conceal. Like other kinds of introduction, they are often what we remember a person for, or what we...
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