Elegy: Letter to My Wife’s Grandfather

Ralph Sneeden’s poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Ecotone, AGNI, The Kenyon Review, The Common, Slate, and elsewhere. The title poem of his first book, Evidence of the Journey (Harmon Blunt, 2007), won the Friends of Literature Prize from Poetry. He teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. In the summer, he directs the Damariscotta Lake Writers’ Conference in Maine. (updated 4/2017)