Verse Daily: Ann Lauinger

Today's poem is "What Feathers Are For"

from The National Poetry Review

Ann Lauinger’s book, Persuasions of Fall (University of Utah, 2004), won the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, and she received the 2002 Ernest J. Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace. Recently her work appeared in Black Rock & Sage, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and the anthology In a Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare (University of Iowa, 2005). She is co-editor of the Slapering Hol Press and teaches medieval and Renaissance literature at Sarah Lawrence College.
About The National Poetry Review:
Poets in this issue: Debra Bruce, Steven D. Schroeder, Kathleen Halme III, Sarah Hannah, Michael Meyerhofer, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Linda Nemec Foster, Ann Lauinger, Lynne Knight, Tara Bray, Dean Jameson, Michael Robins, J. P. Dancing Bear, Bob Hicok, Brian Swann

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Other poems from The National Poetry Review in Verse Daily:
October 19, 2006: "The Trouble with Hammers" by Michael Meyerhofer
October 17, 2006: "Calling T. From the Cultural Wasteland" by Tara Bray
October 16, 2006: "At Last, Fire Seen As a Psychotic Break" by Sarah Hannah
February 3, 2006: "The Comfort of Strangers" by Jeffrey Levine
January 30, 2006: "Deep Sea Dantesca" by Carol Quinn
January 27, 2006: "Hibernaculum" and "Or," by Bridget Cross
January 24, 2006: "Pertinacious Seedheads" by Michelle Boisseau
June 28, 2005: "West Nile" by J. P. Dancing Bear
June 23, 2005: "Tell The Time" Theodore Worozbyt
June 22, 2005: "Three Boats, One Afternoon" Jennifer Michael Hecht
June 21, 2005: "The Personal Touch" Bob Hicok
December 27, 2004: "The Compost Heap" by A. E. Stallings
December 22, 2004: "Against Elegies" by M. B. McLatchey
December 21, 2004: "On Starlings" by Tara Bray
December 20, 2004: "Elephant" by Emily Rosko
April 16, 2004: "To a Friend Unable to Write" by Lynne Knight
April 15, 2004: "Nursery Shellgame" by Diane Thiel
April 14, 2004: "Lilith" by A. E. Stallings
April 12, 2004: "The Tree Frog" by C. Dale Young
August 8, 2003: "Island Myths" by J. P. Dancing Bear
August 7, 2003: "Pushkin and the Black Sea" by Diane Thiel
August 5, 2003: "Betta Splendens" by Ellen Kirvin Dudis
August 4, 2003: "A Bone to Pick with You" by A. E. Stallings

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