Dan O’Brien is a playwright and poet living in Los Angeles. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the Horton Foote Prize, the PEN Center USA Award, and, for poetry, the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. www.danobrien.org
Dan O’Brien
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)