Miriam Levine
Winter 2026 | Poetry
Flood and Ebb
Let me imagine we will be here in the fall,
the wind blowing down from the north.
The sudden blank-out of a name will startle us,
our dead finding new things to say.
Praise will not turn our heads.
Regret will flood us and ebb.
We’ll stop rereading our past
and forget what we meant to do.
Miriam Levine is the author of Forget about Sleep, her sixth poetry collection, winner of the 2023 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award. Another collection, The Dark Opens, won the Autumn House Poetry Prize. Other books include Devotion, a memoir; In Paterson, a novel. Levine, winner of a Pushcart Prize, is a fellow of the NEA and a grantee of the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. She lives in Florida and New Hampshire. For more information, please go to miriamlevine.com.