The Post Office: An Opera in PoemsA poet gives one of our most democratic institutions a voiceby Elaine Sexton When I...
Elaine Sexton
Democracy
Democracyby Elaine SextonNow dead, still beautiful? the post office–––civility, decency, equality, respect. All dead....
In the Name of Love
In the Name of Loveby Elaine SextonFrank, the main character, a postal worker, defends his engagement to Ben, the...
The Post Office Of My Childhood
The Post Office of My Childhoodby Elaine SextonBENThe post office of my childhood was a blondebrick building with...
The Heart Explained
The Heart Explainedby Elaine SextonFRANKThe most beautiful thing about the mail isreception, and the most beautiful...
Personified
Personifiedby Elaine Sexton The Post Office is one of the characters in the opera, The Post Office, from which this...
Elaine Sexton is a maker, critic, teacher, and librettist. The Post Office: An Opera in Poems is her sixth collection of poetry, and first libretto, written in collaboration with composer Laura Kaminsky. The Post Office will debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Arts in May 2026. Her poems are widely anthologized and published in journals including American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and O! the Oprah Magazine. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, former senior editor of ARTnews, and visual arts editor for Tupelo Quarterly, her art and book reviews have appeared in Art in America, ARTnews, Art New England, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and On the Seawall. Sexton lives in New York and teaches at the Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute. elainesexton.org