Bad Hobby

1
 
Dedicated  
Forest  
Stray  
Animal Prudence  
Cooper’s Hawk  
Farm Evening in the Blue Smoke  
At the Champion Avenue Low-Income Senior & Child Care Services Center  
AccuWeather: Real Feel  
Keelson  
Dahlia  
Foreshortening  
Cognition  
My Father  
Bad Hobby  
 
2
 
Empire  
Fountain  
The Rule of Three  
Helvetica  
Omphalos  
The Ghost on the Handle  
Predator Satiation  
AccuWeather: Episodes of Sunshine  
The Supreme Farewell of Handkerchiefs  
Birds Are Public Animals of Capitalism  
Personal Item  
The Children  
“Where I Am Going”/“I Dare to Live”  
Topless  
Mint  
Morning  
 
3
 
Latecomer  
What Kind of Fool Am I  
Conqueror  
School  
AccuWeather: Windy, with Clouds Breaking  
Window  
Trace  
Wisdom  
Aftermath  
My Mother  
Ohio Spring Jingo  
Snow Moon & the Dementia Unit  
Scarlet Experiment  
Lucky Star  
Inactive Fault, with Echoes  
 
Notes  
Acknowledgments

Kathy Fagan is the author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. She is also the author of four previous collections, including The Charm; The Raft, winner of the National Poetry Series; and MOVING & ST RAGE, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize. Fagan's work has appeared in venues such as the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, the New Republic, Best American Poetry, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and an Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and served as the Frost Place poet in residence. Fagan is cofounder of the MFA program at The Ohio State University, where she teaches poetry, and coedits the Wheeler Poetry Prize Book Series for The Journal and The Ohio State University Press.