Poem on My 60th Birthday

Chard deNiord is the author of several books of poetry from the University of Pittsburgh Press: Interstate (2015), The Double Truth (2011), and Night Mowing (2005). He is also the author of a book of essays and interviews with seven senior American poets—Galway Kinnell, Ruth Stone, Lucille Clifton, Donald Hall, Robert Bly, Jack Gilbert, and Maxine Kumin—entitled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs (Marick, 2011). DeNiord is the Poet Laureate of Vermont and a professor of English and creative writing at Providence College, where he received the Joseph R. Accinno Teaching Award in 2011. Photo by Liz Hawkes deNiord