In July, new work from Associate Professor of English Myronn Hardy was featured as the poem of the week in the Portland Press Herald. Megan Grumbling, the curator of the Press Herald’s series, describes the poem titled “Threshold with Fog” as “hazy” and praises Hardy’s imagery. “I love this poem’s vivid, dream-like imagery, and how it cross-fades between scenes, leaving us feeling as lyrically displaced and uncertain as the speaker,” Grumbling writes. 

Hardy finished writing “Threshold with Fog” about a year ago. It’s a busy time for him, poetrywise.  “I’m currently writing poem after poem,” he says. As yet, he doesn’t have a new collection in mind. “I don’t know if a new collection is forming. This usually takes years to discover.” HIs inspiration, he says, was, “thinking about being lost in the Leuthold Forest Reserve. And what it may mean to be found and guided by a stranger.” (Leuthold Forest Reserve is in the wilds of Maine, southwest of Jackman.)

Hardy’s most recent poetry collection, Aurora Americana (2023), was called “a clear-eyed vantage of America” by Rebecca Morgan Frank in her review for the Poetry Foundation.

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Myronn E. Hardy

Associate Professor of English