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Kathleen Graber was raised on small barrier island off the coast of New Jersey. Her latest collection of poetry, The River Twice (Princeton University Press, 2019) was the winner of the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. She is the author of two previous books of poetry, Correspondence and The Eternal City, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Amy Lowell Trust, Princeton University, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Catching Your Luck: A review of Kathleen Graber’s The River Twice by Omar Sabbagh

The River TwicebyKathleen Graber’s. £14.99. Princeton University Press.
ISBN: 978-0691193212

‘I kept thinking of the Chinese proverb: