“Beautifully crafted, surprising and beautiful.”
“Wondrous from first word to last.”
The New York Times Spelling Bee attracts a large following of enthusiastic word lovers who delight in the daily challenge of ferreting out a list of from a seemingly-random array of seven letters. A handful of Bee solvers delights in the challenge of composing poetry, essays, and more with words from the daily game. The pollen of new poems is dusted everywhere compiles a selection of work by one of these “Hive poets” known as “peregrine from the rocky shore.” This volume, the second in a series, presents more than 100 poems that explore our relationship with the natural world, as well as meditations on memory, solitude, and love, including some not previously published.