Today's poem is
"Capturing a Plum Blossom"
from Smartish Pace
John Pursley III
teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Alabama and works as a poetry editor for Black Warrior Review. His recent work appears in American Literary Review, Chelsea, Hunger Mountain, Many Mountains Moving, Margie, North American Review and Sycamore Review.
About Smartish Pace:
Poets in this issue: Betty Adcock, Stephen Cushman, Jim Daniels, Denise Duhamel, Lola Haskins, Bob Hicok, John Kinsella, Jerzy Kronhold, Molly McQuade, Eric Pankey, Giovanni Pascoli, Arthur Rimbaud, Joan Swift, Jordan Smith, Henry Taylor, Susan Thomas, Lee Upton, Nance Van Winckel, William Wenthe, Greg Williamson, John Pursley III
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Editor: Stephen Reichert
September 21, 2005: "eBay Sonnets" Denise Duhamel
September 19, 2005: "Would-Be Pastoral Elegy" Gail White
February 4, 2005: "Church" by Megan Snyder-Camp
February 3, 2005: "Translation" by Robert Morgan
February 2, 2005: "Second Bearing, 1919" by Claudia Emerson
January 31, 2005: "Heat Lightning" by Ted Kooser
August 30, 2004: "Without Mythologies" by Henry Weinfield
August 29, 2004: "Fifty-Fifty" by Patricia Clark
August 23, 2004: "Olivia Between Acts" by Stuart Lishan
August 21, 2004: "Garden" by Theodore Worozbyt
January 8, 2004: "Missouri River" by Lawrence Revard
January 7, 2004: "Pontoon Pantoum #505" by Kathy Fagan
January 5, 2004: "The Fool Card" by Annie Finch
July 30, 2003: "The Fruit Thereof" by William Wenthe
July 29, 2003: "Slow Leak" by Ellen Doré Watson
July 28, 2003: "Poor Excuses" by Andi Werblin
December 1, 2002: Squirrel Hunting by Edmund August
November 30, 2002: 49 Views of Childhood by Bin Ramke
November 28, 2002: The Birdhouse by Greg Williamson
November 26, 2002: A Letter from Mama (1916-1999) by Marilyn Nelson
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