elizabeth ellen is the poetry editor at hobart and picked this poem for your reading pleasures.
it is a shortened version of a poem that will appear in gather me later this year.
also, there’s a lot of really good poetry at hobart this month. i encourage y’all (practicing for georgia) to click around.
“in 2013 I will actually bring you a can of NOS to make you feel better and in 2012 someone will say Dan this NOS bit seems too flippant to include in a poem of such weight but this poem this poem does not feel heavy to me and NOS is the least flippant promise I have ever made because of the love that that can of NOS has come to represent at least the love that I feel which right now is not rot”
This is one of my favorite poems of Dan’s and I am thrilled that it was published in an awesome place like Hobart. Go read it now.
(Love this one by Timothy WIllis Sanders too, and there is an interview with Matthew in there!)
