Anne Lovering Rounds is an associate professor of English at Hostos Community College, a campus of the City University of New York in the South Bronx. She is the author of two poetry collections: Variations in an Emergency, which received the Cathlamet Prize for Poetry, and Little Double Elegy for All of You (Ravenna Press, 2021). A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, she holds a PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University and bachelor’s degrees in English and classics from the University of Chicago.

Reading Auden (Christmas Morning, 2021)

by Anne Lovering Rounds

Your image on that volume of light verse:
a poet nonchalantly smoking,
indifferent to dressing well
who had it nonetheless.

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