Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas is the Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, where she has taught for many years. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and translations. Her new books include the poetry collection The Golden Road (Northwestern UP, 2012) and her memoir of her husband’s dementia, Strange Relation (Paul Dry Books, 2011).

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Berries, Blood, Ash, Meteor

By Rachel Hadas

Fall 2013 | Poetry

Time to pick berries. This strain (pink when ripe
instead of black) surprises me each August,
although I should be used to it by now.

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The Blue Changes

By Rachel Hadas

Fall 2013 | Poetry

Channel, brook, stream—call it a river
that flows past the hospital
in different shades and seasons of blue,

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The Red Chair

By Rachel Hadas

Winter 2013 | Poetry

In flight: bird, arrow, grief.
Static: a red chair
waiting for someone in a patch of sun

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The Hive

By Rachel Hadas

Winter 2013 | Poetry

Waiting in a lofty hotel lobby
honeycombed with entrances and exits,
feeling weak, I find a corner, lean

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Mountain

By Rachel Hadas

Summer 1979

Coldly flushed at dawn, swallowing sun each evening, brooding visible world's end: I finally take the challenge, go to meet the mountain. Windless sizzle of resiny pines. Heat devils dance in gorges. I fumble up and up, look down at a lineny wrinkle [...]

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