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Max Heinegg
Max Heinegg is the author of Good Harbor (2022), which won the inaugural Paul Nemser Prize, Going There (2023), the chapbook Keepers of the House (2025), and the forthcoming At the Art of War (2027) all on Lily Poetry Review Press. He has taught English in the public schools of Medford, MA for ages and is poet-laureate of the city of Medford, 2025-2027. He is also a songwriter and recording artist. His most recent record, Through Traveler, is a series of poems set to music, from Emily Dickinson to Cornelius Eady.
Loveliness
When I return, she’s stitched orchid redolent cloves into oranges, dipped the perfumed circle in the violet of orris root and tucked amber apples in mountain laurel. It’s Christmas and the humble orange is now pomander, more than it was by adornment, though less than once, that sought gift. She remembers scents’ protection, burns beeswax […]