About Stephen Cushman

Stephen Cushman is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia. In addition to two books of poems and two studies of American poetry, he has published Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle (1999). He chairs the Advisory Board of VQR.

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The sky has never won a prize.
The clouds have no careers.
The rainbow doesn’t say my work,
thank goodness.

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