We the Jury: Poems BOTY_2025 José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

and the Executive Order limiting the hours of the federal work day

With her four best friends (all also named Mary) by her side

and transcendental gospel

Once underway

We the Jury: Poems BOTY_2025 José Ortega y GassetWinner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for Poetry A boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know anothers thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions Wayne Miller tackles in We the Jury: the hard ones, the impossible ones. From an academic dinner party disturbing in its crassness and disaffection to a family struggling to communicate gently