William Hathaway

William Hathaway’s poems began appearing in books and magazines in 1970, and he maintained a modest literary presence into the first decade of the twenty-first century. He is still alive and writing poems in a house in Belfast, Maine, that he and his wife, Ellen, currently share with an infestation of ladybugs.

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Poem | Oedipus

"I myself remember / back in the day when great men / were half-gods and ate their sons. We / ourselves still don’t matter much. / The important new democratization / turns out to mean half-goddesses / now get to eat kids too."
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