Aubade: Homesong

Sidney Burris is the author of two collections of poetry, Doing Lucretius (Louisiana State University Press, 2000) and A Day at the Races (University of Utah Press, 1989), as well as a book of criticism, The Poetry of Resistance (Ohio University Press, 1990). His poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic , Poetry , The Kenyon Review , The Georgia Review , Five Points , and AGNI . He received his BA in Classical Studies at Duke University and his PhD in English from the University of Virginia. He is a professor of English at the University of Arkansas and the director of the Fulbright College Honors Program. Photo by William Moore