Rimas Uzgiris' poetry has been published in Bridges, 322 Review, Lituanus, Prime Number Magazine, The Poetry Porch, interrupture, Literary Laundry and has several forthcoming. His translations have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Spork Press, Modern Poetry in Translation, Hayden's Ferry Review, Two Lines Online, Lituanus and are forthcoming in The Iowa Review. He also has book reviews published or forthcoming from HTML Giant and Post Road. He received an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers-Newark University, where he studied poetry. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I had read the book months ago. And then, standing in front of Edward Hopper’s “The House by the Railroad” at the Museum of Modern Art, I found myself trying…