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Virginia Konchan

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Virginia Konchan is the author of five books of poetry, Requiem (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025); Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon, 2022); Hallelujah Time (Véhicule Press, 2021); Any God Will Do (Carnegie Mellon, 2020); and The End of Spectacle (Carnegie Mellon, 2018), as well as a short story collection, Anatomical Gift. Coeditor of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023), and recipient of fellowships from the Amy Clampitt Poet Residency Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Believer, and the Academy of American Poets.

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“he—
the fatal lodestar—sinks
his rapier into the ground,
reclines on a four-poster bed

of crinoline and trash, remembers
the fidelity of man, his honorific
native tongue, humbly requests
a glass of water. It is the last glass

of water in the world. The fly
merely circulates. I could die here,
not unhappily, but won’t;—
the world will continue,

panoptic, bread will be baked,
the children will sleep fast.
It is the first day of the last day.
The low tide moans its applause”
Virginia Konchan

“When my ex-husband called me
a black hole, he was, in a sense,
correct: my face a gravity field
so strong even light cannot beam.”
Virginia Konchan

“If the confident animal coming toward us
had a mind like ours,
the change in him would startle us.
But to him his own being is endless,
undefined, and without regard
for his condition: clear,
like his eyes. Where we see future,
he sees all, and himself
in all, made whole for always.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

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