“I Listen to Money Singing” by Dolores Hayden

E.E. Cummings Prize Finalist, selected by Wendy Drexler

Dolores Hayden‘s poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies including Poetry, Yale Review, The Common, Ecotone, Missouri Review, Verse Daily, and Best American Poetry. She’s won awards from the Poetry Society of America and the New England Poetry Club. Exuberance (Red Hen Press, 2019), persona poems in the voices of daredevil pilots, was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award and the Foreword Indies Book Award. She’s professor emerita at Yale, an urban historian and architect whose nonfiction includes The Grand Domestic Revolution and The Power of Place (both MIT Press).