Polly Brown / Poet

Tag: poems

  • Gifts from Non-Poets

    Here’s a piece of luck no poet should ever take for granted: the gift of knowing ordinary civilians—non-poets—who’ve somehow learned to welcome poems into their lives. Welcoming a poem, for me, means sitting with it—or walking around with it—and reading it more than once, maybe including out loud. Ultimately, though, I give credit to anyone…

  • Poems and a Few Green Beans

    February 2, 2026 I’ve been thinking about resettling, about claiming or being claimed by a place, about what’s hard in that, and what can be good. Not everyone gets to choose where they live, and some individual choices are denied. So often, there’s no way of going back. And sometimes it looks or feels like…