“We’re not what / either of us expected, / are we?” Carl Phillips asks in his new book, Double Shadow. It’s a good question, and it’s one that raises another question, not only in this particular poem ...

The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday. Send poems to Meredith Williams at [email protected].

Young rose to some fame during the 1970s, a slightly belated but undeniably talented inheritor of the Deep Image style: his short poems and free verse sequences relied on quick leaps between ...

Webb at his best is genuinely funny and genuinely reliable in his reactions to the dilemmas of middle-aged American men: “My head's a planet with failing gravity,” he writes in “Losing My Hair”; “One ...