New poems and first review of Larks

Author

Han VanderHart
February 3rd, 2025

J-T Kelly has written Larks’ first review, and I’m so grateful for J-T’s care and attention in this review…you can read the full review in periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, edited by rob mclennan.

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One of the mysteries of grief is that life goes on. A mystery of memory is that it goes missing, and that it comes back. VanderHart preserves much of the mystery even as the narrative becomes clearer. The mystery isn’t what happened; it is how such pain can sit among such beauty.

J-T Kelly

I also have eight new poems from Larks published in Up the Staircase Quarterly and periodicities and Screen Door Review this week (see links below), and I hope you give them a read and consider preordering a copy of Larks (I’m also happy to visit your class or book group to read/talk poems!). Many thanks to the editors for their support and care—we do not bring books into the world alone.

Swallows, photograph Vladimir Tolman

  • The Lily Crucifix (c1450)

  • Swallows

  • Bird Song Sounds Out of Tune Only to the Human Ear

  • Artist's Statement in a Mountain Cabin

  • Broken