Great Regulars: The poet Lyn Lifshin, who divides her time

between New York and Virginia, is one of the most prolific poets among my contemporaries, and has thousands of poems in print, by my loose reckoning. I have been reading her work in literary magazines for at least thirty years. Here's a good example of this poet at her best.

The Other Fathers

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 251

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