Our Sunday Poem today is "Surprising the Gods" by Dan Albergotti, based on the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. There are many ways to interpret the poem, of course, but in my reading it provides a perfect metaphor for those times as a writer when characters and plots surprise you, behaving in ways you hadn't intended, sending a story or novel into new directions you hadn't forseen....
Dan Albergotti teaches at Coastal Carolina University and is the poetry editor of storySouth. His work has appeared in Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, The Virginia Review Quarterly and many other journals. His first collection, The Boatloads, recently won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.
The art above is "Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld" by Camille Corot.
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