from The Umbrian Sonnets

Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger, named a top debut of 2015 by Poets & Writers, and of the chapbook The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, AGNI, Narrative, and elsewhere. He is a 2018–20 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. (updated 10/2019)