Today's poem is
"Detour, Missouri"
from Cimarron Review
Chad Parmenter
is a graduate of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale's MFA program. His writing has appeared in Poetry, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, The Literary Review, Words on Walls, American Book Review, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. Poems of his are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, 32poems, Smartish Pace, The Diagram, and Hotel Amerika, where one poem won the 2005 poetry contest.
About Cimarron Review:
Poets in this issue: Paul Benton, Linnea Johnson, Alex Lemon, Julie M. Wade, Mike Dockins, Laura Van Prooyen, Chad Parmenter, John Tranter, Gregory Fraser, Anna Journey, Amy Clark, Philip Fried, Robert Nazarene, Stephanie Smith, Michael Montlack, Matthew Edmund Miller, Paula Bohince, Theodore Worozbyt
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