Lucie Brock-Broido

Born: 22 May 1956 • Died: 6 March 2018

Lucie Brock-Broido was born in Pittsburgh, was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia University, and taught at Bennington, Princeton, Harvard (where she was a Briggs-Copeland poet), and Columbia. She was the recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, as well as awards from the American Poetry Review and the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Her collections, A Hunger (1988), The Master Letters (1995), Trouble in Mind (2004), and Stay, Illusion (2013), which often explore obsessions and anxieties (of influence, ritual, mortality, and modernity). (Source)

Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido

Moving On in the Dark Like Loaded Boats at Night, Though There is No Course, There is Boundlessness by Lucie Brock-Broido

August 24, 2025

“Why would what died once keep on dying off / Over & over like a seam in an old velvet coat?” — Lucie Brock-Broido