Richard Wollman is a poet, sculptor, and Professor Emeritus of Literature and Writing at Simmons University in Boston. He is the author of Evidence of Things Seen (Sheep Meadow Press), A Cemetery Affair (Finishing Line Press), and Changeable Gods (Winter 2022, Slate Roof Press).
Richard Wollman’s new collection, Changeable Gods, winner of the Elyse Wolf Prize, is a beautiful letterpress edition chapbook from Slate Roof Press. This sequence of love poems comes together to form one long poem that traces the arc of the lovers’ experiences over the span of thirty days. The presence of a third figure, Sarah, who has passed away, hovers over these lyrical poems of longing and loss.
“Wollman’s work is strikingly like that of Eugenio Montale (without his having been consciously influenced by the Italian poet)….Changeable Gods is a remarkable book in which Wollman uses clear and lyrical human speech to create a long sequence of poems of enormous complexity.”
—Alfred Nicol, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award
To order Changeable Gods please visit Slate Roof Press:
https://www.slateroofpress.com/books/changeable-gods.html
News
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NAA Exhibition: Line Work Feb 5-28
Here’s my sculpture, “Philomela,” which is currently on view, along with “Leda & the Swan,” at the Newburyport Art Association. Come have a look at 65 Water Street in Newburyport, MA. (Thanks to A.J. Cooper for the placard!)
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Poem 26 from Changeable Gods at Verse Daily
I didn’t know this poem was chosen by Verse Daily when it came out, but pleased all the same to see it out there. Changeable Gods, Poem 26: https://www.versedaily.org/2023/26.shtml
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In-Security:A Timely Art Exhibition
I’m honored to have 4 sculptures from my new Metamorphoses series included in this Hudson Valley MOCA exhibition of 75 artists from across the nation. If you’re in striking distance of Peekskill, NY, please have a look and let me know what you think!
Richard Wollman 