Jeffrey Thomson

poet, memoirist, translator, and editor; author twelve books; former NEA Fellow, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Poetry Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, and the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University; current professor of creative writing at the University of Maine Farmington


 

What is poetry? Part 2

The light that points the way

in the fog. The light in the fog

that thickens and reveals the fog’s

cold breath. The fog as well.

 

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