Today’s Poem: Grown-Up

A thought for February 22, Edna St. Vincent Millay’s birthday

John Sloan’s The City from Greenwich Village, 1922 (Wikimedia Commons)

The widely published, wildly inventive poet Aaron Poochigian recently remarked that he had a contrary-to-received-wisdom sense that the clever, acidic wit Dorothy Parker wrote better poetry than her contemporary, the sappy Edna St. Vincent Millay. Until, that is, he sat himself down and actually read Millay. So here at

Poems Ancient and Modern

we asked him to write up a quick take on his new appreciation for Millay.