Tagged: “Selected Poems | John McAuliffe”

Poem of the Week: “St. Patrick’s Day” by John McAuliffe

“St. Patrick’s Day” by John McAuliffe details a luncheon and steers well away from the typical imagery of the holiday, meditating instead on wealth, privilege, and place—“our travels, from all over, to this corner of London.” The poem moves the way small talk moves, easy and slightly dissociative as it slips between details of the…