Rachel Hadas

Biography

Rachel Hadas is the Board of Governors Professor of English at the Newark campus of Rutgers University, where she has taught for many years. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and translations. Her new books include the poetry collection The Golden Road (Northwestern UP, 2012) and her memoir of her husband’s dementia, Strange Relation (Paul Dry Books, 2011).

See Work

POETRY / Fall 2013

The Blue Changes

By Rachel Hadas

Channel, brook, stream—call it a river
that flows past the hospital
in different shades and seasons of blue,

POETRY / Fall 2013

Berries, Blood, Ash, Meteor

By Rachel Hadas

Time to pick berries. This strain (pink when ripe
instead of black) surprises me each August,
although I should be used to it by now.

POETRY / Winter 2013

The Red Chair

By Rachel Hadas

In flight: bird, arrow, grief.
Static: a red chair
waiting for someone in a patch of sun

POETRY / Winter 2013

The Hive

By Rachel Hadas

Waiting in a lofty hotel lobby
honeycombed with entrances and exits,
feeling weak, I find a corner, lean

Summer 1979

Mountain

By Rachel Hadas