Maggie Dietz reads from her new collection, If You Would Let Me, with Jennifer Clarvoe, whose new book is Piano Piano.

In PIANO PIANO, Clarvoe crafts a luminous meditation on time, loss, and the enduring power of art to transform grief into grace. These poems move with the deliberate tempo their title suggests — piano piano, slowly, gently — through landscapes both intimate and archaeological, from a father's final breaths to ancient curse tablets unearthed in Turkish soil.

America hurt itself badly today.

Poets reflect on the poems they return to in difficult times.

Two poems by Jennifer Clarvoe