Poetry Magazine
The Crossroads
Source: Poetry (February 2010).
Biography
Poet Joshua Mehigan grew up in upstate New York and received a BA from Purchase College and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Influenced by the poetry of Philip Larkin, Jorge Luis Borges, and Edgar Bowers, Mehigan writes intelligent, morally complex lyric poems shaped by a nuanced attention to rhyme and meter. Critic Adam Kirsch praised The Optimist in a review for the New York Sun, observing, “Mr. Mehigan is Frost-like in . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Death, Sorrow & Grieving
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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