Ned Balbo Biography
Born on Long Island, Ned Balbo earned an BA from Vassar College, an MA from Johns Hopkins, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He has published three books of poetry: Galileo's Banquet (1998), which shared the Towson University Prize for Literature; Lives of the Sleepers (2005), awarded the Ernest Sandeen Prize; and The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (2010), selected for the Donald Justice Prize and the Poets' Prize. A co-winner of the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, he lives in Baltimore with his wife, poet-essayist Jane Satterfield.
Once, boarding the train to New York City,
The aisle crowded and all seats filled, I glimpsed
An open space—more pushing, stuck in place—
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If it was free, you taught, I ought to grab it
as you did: McDonald's napkins, pens,
and from the school where you were once employed
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