https://johnokrent.com John Okrent Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:20:32 +0000 https://johnokrent.com en https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-POETRY Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:23:11 +0000 John Okrent https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-POETRY https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-POEMS Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:54:12 +0000 John Okrent https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-POEMS My Heart and The Nonsense (excerpt)The Yale Review, Winter 2024 Nashville, 1999Ploughshares, Winter 2022-2023 My Heart and the Nonsense (excerpt) The Missouri Review, April 2024Thank Plankton On The Seawall, December 2022 Ars Poetica on Ice The BeaverThe Poetry Review Vol 112, No 3, Autumn 2022 May 5, 2020Ploughshares, Winter 2021-2022 Hold TightDecember Magazine (2021 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize Winner) Two Days in MarchTogether in a Sudden Strangeness, Knopf 2021 August 3rd, 2020 Plume 2021 March 17, 18, 19 and 22 Poetry Northwest, 2020 March 25, 27 and 31 Love’s Executive Order, 2020 April 12 American Literary Review, 2020 May 18, 24 and 25 Sixth Finch, 2020 Barrows Goldeneye Arkansas International, 2020 This MorningPainted Bride Quarterly, 2018 After Seeing A Picture in the New York Times...,Rattle, 2018The Trouble With Describing the Winter SkyField, 2017To a Tiny Mary Carved in BasswoodTupelo Quarterly, 2016 https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-ESSAYS Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:20:32 +0000 John Okrent https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-ESSAYS Include Everything Review of&nbsp;Jersey Breaks: Becoming and American Poet, by Robert PinskyArrowsmith Press, March 2023Reckoning With a Pandemic, as a Doctor and a HumanReview of Virology, by Joseph Osmundson New York Times, June 2022 https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-POETRY-BOOKS Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:32:51 +0000 John Okrent https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-POETRY-BOOKS <img width="1500" height="2100" width_o="1500" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70cc05d3bfe2e77aeeeadafb1856882794c706776c49891c3694a465730cfa5d/Untitled-1.jpg" data-mid="129862381" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70cc05d3bfe2e77aeeeadafb1856882794c706776c49891c3694a465730cfa5d/Untitled-1.jpg" /> This Costly Season&nbsp; A Crown of Sonnets&nbsp; 2022,&nbsp;Arrowsmith PressOrder here Praise for "This Costly Season" Urgent, improvisatory, diaristic—John Okrent’s well-crafted crown of sonnets about being a doctor during the pandemic, our pandemic, is unexpected and necessary, compulsively readable, haunting and hallucinatory. There is something both very ancient and very new about these eloquent, interlocking poems of worry, illness, supplication, and praise.--Edward Hirsch Like Petrarch, Keats, and Whitman, whose influence undertows these poems, John Okrent is a poet who explores the metaphysics of mortality under pressure. --Erin BelieuJohn Okrent’s magnificent crown of sonnets imbues the form with energy, empathy and surprise. His approach to the world is all-encompassing and humane... the sequence seems like a prayer, the prayer of one who feels blessed by life on earth.&nbsp;--John Skoyles This is a miracle collection and each one of these poems is a long slow kiss into the face of oblivion as they slam it to the dirt and kick its ass.--Matthew LippmanIn trying again and again to steady us, and in truthfully, beautifully, failing, these lines give us embodied access to some of the wildest, most powerful human virtues, like fortitude and optimism, faith and dignity. &nbsp;--Katie Peterson https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-NEWS Mon, 14 Jun 2021 22:55:14 +0000 John Okrent https://johnokrent.com/JOHN-OKRENT-NEWS 2021 Jeff Marks Poetry Prize WinnerDecember Magazine The Doctor Poets of COVIDThe Boston Globe What Do We Want from Poetry in Times of CrisisThe New Yorker, 2020 &nbsp; A Tacoma Doctor Treats Patients and Writes Poems about CoronavirusSeattle Times, 2020 John Okrent (A04) on Medicine, Poetry, and CoronavirusSt Johns College, 2020 This Tacoma Doctor Marks His Days in PPE and PoetryKUOW, 2020 Chekhov said that one must feel compassion down to his fingertips, a virtue John Okrent shares with that writer, as well as his vocation, and writing that is blindingly beautiful.--John Skoyles https://johnokrent.com/Events Mon, 02 May 2022 23:41:30 +0000 John Okrent https://johnokrent.com/Events Upcoming Events Stay tuned... Past Events 2023 Princeton Poetry Festival November 17th, 10:30am-5:30pm EST, Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Center The biennial Princeton Poetry Festival, organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, returns with a full day of readings, panel discussions and a lecture featuring poets from around the world: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Joyelle McSweeney, Valzhyna Mort, John Okrent, Roger Reeves, Padraig Regan, Philip Schultz, and Luci Tapahonso. Day-long festival runs 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM. Free and open to public; no tickets required. more info and schedule of event&nbsp;here:https://arts.princeton.edu/events/2023-princeton-poetry-festival/ https://johnokrent.com/ABOUT-POET-JOHN-OKRENT Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:56:48 +0000 John Okrent https://johnokrent.com/ABOUT-POET-JOHN-OKRENT <img width="4978" height="3300" width_o="4978" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/760f13bb103024534fcc52564a0a466994fd46972eb7e2c3ae62a14a47cccd0e/000022890008.jpg" data-mid="111122395" border="0" data-scale="66" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/760f13bb103024534fcc52564a0a466994fd46972eb7e2c3ae62a14a47cccd0e/000022890008.jpg" /> John Okrent is a poet and a family doctor. He works at a community health center in Tacoma, WA, where he lives with his wife and two young children in a hundred year old fishing cabin built on stilts above the Puget Sound. https://johnokrent.com/CONTACT-JOHN-OKRENT Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:52:19 +0000 John Okrent https://johnokrent.com/CONTACT-JOHN-OKRENT john.okrent(at)gmail(dot)com