About Joseph Fasano
Joseph Fasano is an American poet, novelist, songwriter, and educator. His books include The Last Song of the World (2024), The Swallows of Lunetto (2022), the songs album The Wind that Knows the Way (2022), The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (2020), which was named one of the 20 Best Small Press Books of 2020, The Crossing (2018), Vincent (2015), Inheritance (2014), a James Laughlin Award nominee, and Fugue for Other Hands (2013) winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award. His honors include the Rattle Poetry Prize, eight Pushcart Prize nominations, and a nomination for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.” His book The Magic Words (TarcherPerigee, 2024), a collection of poetry prompts and exercises, helps people of all ages unlock their creativity. His writing has been widely translated and anthologized, most recently in The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 (Faber and Faber).Fasano's poems have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, Boston Review, American Poets, Measure, Tin House, American Poetry Journal, The Adroit Journal, American Literary Review, Verse Daily, the PEN Poetry Series, the Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day program, and other publications.
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Poetry
All we have is a few sweet days
and naming.
White pine, blackthorne,
briar;
the new moon like a lost one’s
empty bed.
Ghosts: we are riddled
with their singing.
We rise, despite
it all,
each morning–
the voices of the silenced ones inside us.
And isn’t this, isn’t this
living?
Isn’t this what it means to raise the dead?
