Patrick Rosal

is an inaugural codirector of the Mellon-funded Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden, where he is a professor of English. He is the author of five full-length poetry collections including the forthcoming The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems.

Nation Poetry

The Changing Hymn (Allegory of the Singing Lover) The Changing Hymn (Allegory of the Singing Lover)

For Mary Rose During the Trouble Years my love sang the same song every day but every day she’d change—slightly—the words One day she sang a song for sweepers and the next day the…

Oct 14, 2021 / Poems / Patrick Rosal

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