Andrea Cohen
Andrea Cohen is the author of the poetry collections Everything (Four Way Books, 2021), Nightshade (Four Way Books, 2019), Unfathoming (Four Way Books, 2017), Furs Not Mine (Four Way Books, 2015), Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry, 2011), Long Division (Salmon Poetry, 2009), and The Cartographer's Vacation (Owl Creek Press, 1999). Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, the Threepenny Review, Poetry magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere.
She directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Source
The Committee Weighs In
I tell my mother
I’ve won the Nobel Prize.
Again? she says. Which
discipline this time?
It’s a little game
we play: I pretend
I’m somebody, she
pretends she isn’t dead.
Published:
2012
Length:
Shorty
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
2024
Themes:
Death & Loss
Family
Literary Devices:
Couplets
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit
Dialogue
conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie