HEATHER McHUGH

"A good laugh is the best pesticide." Nabokov

Have a scruple of poems.

Have a dram of anagrams.

Experience for yourself my (humble) attempt at an e-poem.

The Academy of American Poets keeps a far fancier page of info on Heather McHugh at this link. You can zoom from there to the Academy's other estimable sites.

The Fabled Orphic Egg, the one with the necklace of snake..

--Presented with a copy of Wilhelm Reich's new book The Function of the Orgasm, Freud remarked "So thick?"

Oscar Wilde: "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

Thomas Mann: "A writer is somebody for whom writing
is more difficult than it is for other people."

Heather McHugh (click name to send e-mail) supplements her formal teaching appointments by taking a few private poetry students for work by mail or e-mail.