The Always poems by Robin Reagler

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Grief is a universal experience, and The Always by Robin Reagler explores the experience of grieving through the particular dailiness of American life during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Always braids two love stories into one book of poems. The narrative arc is one of lost and found. In the book's first half, poems delve into the losses of both parents and the end of a marriage. In the second half, grief becomes alchemized into new love. After all, inevitably, grief and love are intertwined and infinite. That is a given. 


Grief is a universal experience, and The Always by Robin Reagler explores the experience of grieving through the particular dailiness of American life during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Always braids two love stories into one book of poems. The narrative arc is one of lost and found. In the book's first half, poems delve into the losses of both parents and the end of a marriage. In the second half, grief becomes alchemized into new love. After all, inevitably, grief and love are intertwined and infinite. That is a given. 


Robin Reagler is the author of NIGHT IS THIS ANYWAY, INTO THE THE, TEETH & TEETH, winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize selected by Natalie Diaz, and DEAR RED AIRPLANE. For 22 years she was the Executive Director of Writers in the Schools (WITS) and led the national WITS Alliance. She chaired the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Board of Trustees and LitNet, the national advocacy group for literary organizations. These days she is the Director of the Honors College at Houston Community College.