The Children Are Reading: Stahlecker Selections

GABRIEL FRIED is the author of Making the New Lamb Take, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize, which was named a top poetry collection of 2007 by Foreword Reviews and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He is also the editor of an anthology, Heart of the Order: Baseball Poems, and longtime poetry editor of Persea Books. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Missouri.

[Where have the children gone this time?] • I. • Ends Well • Places Called Bogs • Potion • Twilight Field • Fragments from Unpublished Tales of Beatrix Potter • The Children are Reading • Orphans • Summer Stock • The Little God • Lizard Queen • Kumari • The Drawing • On Lewis Carroll's Final Photograph of Alice Liddell (1870) • The Roly-Poly Pudding • The Story of the Castle Robbers • School-Night out in a Venn Diagram • Escort • Outside Over There • Note Left on the Counter after a Science Fair • The Story • Colony Collapse Disorder • Abecedary • Stutter • Scold • The Field • D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths • The Cadmean Vixen • Pan • The Joy of Sex • Late Winter after Art Class Papier Maché • More Fragments from Unpublished Tales of Beatrix Potter • The Amateur Magician • II. • The Butcher • The Poet • Alice Meets Peter • Landscape with Model Trains • Sheep's Clothing • The Night the Train Bridge Burned • Dawn • Vespers • Notes

These poems are written through the lens and with the cadences of children (or adults trying to remember being children)