Frank Giampietro is an American poet and the author of the collection Begin Anywhere, for which he received a Florida Book Award. He holds an MA from Washington College, an MFA from Vermont College, and a PhD in English from Florida State University. Giampietro lives in Farmington, Maine, with his wife and two children and works as the managing editor of Alice James Books.

Metaphor for My Daughter’s Birth

An iPoem

by Frank Giampietro

Having myself been thumbnail scored

while folding cellophane into an origami swan

People on couch

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