Chris Agee

Chris Agee is an American poet living in Ireland.

A Tribute to Love and Loss at Salamander Cove

Grief Recovery, Life, Newsletter, Poetry, Publications / By

The September issue of Salamander Cove focuses on love and loss. I am honored to have my poem, “To Friends Not Knowing What to Say”–which first appeared in Iota 85–take its place alongside spare and stunning tributes by Chris Agee, Anna Ross, Dave Jarecki, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Jim Murdoch, Jamie Dedes, and Charles Bernstein. I found …

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Next to Nothing by Chris Agee

Books, Fatherhood, Grief Recovery, Insights, Life, Newsletter, Poetry / By

In his most recent collection, Next to Nothing, Chris Agee fuses voracious verbal intelligence with well-tuned musicality. But this is not why I am compelled to re-read this book. Written in the years following the death of his four-year-old daughter, Agee’s elegies ring with veracity, transcending reportage of paternal grief even as it details, in …

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