Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He cotranslated Tomas Tranströmer’s The Sorrow Gondola and is the editor of To Build My Shadow a Fire: The Poetry and Translations of David Wevill, as well as two poetry collections: Dismantling the Hills and Home Burial, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. He is the cofounder of Tavern Books, an independent publisher specializing in poetry in translation. McGriff lives in Austin, Texas.

Photograph by David Newkirk.

Cosmology for the New Year

An iPoem

by Michael McGriff

The light from dead stars only exists
in the minds of the living,

People on couch

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