“Dazzling, engaging, superb poems in which Hiestand swings from earth and the quotidian to space and the larger connections of nature.” — San Jose Mercury News
Click images below to read the poems and advance via arrows. These selected poems, which can also be read on a single scrolling page, first appeared in a number of fine literary journals and magazines. A collection of new and selected poems is forthcoming. Collected reviews
”The new vantage points of the physics of our time are alive in this poetry. It crackles like some source of energy we had no idea we had lived without and now, of course, would not.”
— Jorie Graham
“Defining, broadening the window of reason”
– Judith Kitchen, The Georgia Review
“Language as continuous with the natural world”
— The Boston Review
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following editors and publishers in whose publications these poems first appeared (often in earlier versions).
The Atlantic, Peter Davison, and David Barber, poetry editors
Agni, Askold Melnychuz, founder, editor
Best American Poetry, editor, Jorie Graham
Carolina Quarterly
The Georgia Review, Stanley W. Lindberg, editor between1977-2000
Graywolf Press, National Poetry Award book, selected by Jorie Graham
The Hudson Review, Paula Deitz, editor-in-chief
Milkweed Editions, several volumes edited by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
The Nation, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director, publisher
New South Books, volume edited by Jennifer Horne
The New Yorker, poetry editor Alice Quinn
The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, assigning editor David Shipley
Partisan Review, Rosanna Warren, edition editor
Prairie Schooner
Southwest Review, Willard Spiegelman, editor emeritus
Verse, Bonnie Costello, edition editor
University Press of New England, Deborah DeNicola, volume editor