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Today's poem is "If You Cannot Be True"

from Meridian

Hayden Draper is a recent graduate of Emerson College's BFA program and was a finalist for the 2005 Prague Summer Program Fellowship in Poetry. She works as a waitress and tutor in Boston.

About Meridian:
Poets in this issue: Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Sandy Longhorn, Andrew Kozma, Peter Kline, Cecily Iddings, Paula Bohince, Hailey Leithauser, Matthew Hittinger, Tim O'Connell, Hayden Draper, Jeffrey Bean, James Hoch, Sandra Beasley, Ellen Wehle, Elizabeth Langemak, Seth Abramson, Bradley Whitehurst

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Meridian * University of Virginia * P.O. Box 400145 * Charlottesville, VA 22904-4145
Editor: Ryan Fox

Other poems from Meridian in Verse Daily:
June 30, 2005:   "Animals" Alison Powell
June 27, 2005:  "Tehachapi" St. James Wood
February 10, 2005:  "Ecclesiastes" by Susan L. Miller
November 3, 2004:  "'Thank You'" by Mia Leonin
June 3, 2004:  "The Given" by Lawrence Revard
June 1, 2004:  "Oyster Shard" by Sarah M. Brownsberger
May 31, 2004:  "Behind the Fear of Flying" by Jason Nemec
February 2, 2004:  "An Admonition" by Seamus Heaney
November 11, 2003:  "Impossible Garden" by John Isles
July 24, 2003:  "from The Decalogue (III)" by Susan Wood
July 22, 2003:  "The Runes, the Brute Remedies" by Elton Glaser
January 30, 2003:  "Ode on Satan's Power" by Barbara Hamby
September 8, 2002:  "Plato and the Fall" by David Young
September 4, 2002:  "Blue Colonial" by David Roderick
August 26, 2002:  "Improvident Knowledge" by R. T. Smith

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