Verse Daily: Mary Oliver

Today's poem is "In the Storm"

from the Southern Review

Mary Oliver has received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her poetry. Her most recent poetry collections are Blue Iris and Why I Wake Early, both published by Beacon Press in 2004.
Other poems by Mary Oliver in Verse Daily:
May 13, 2005: "Little Snake Asleep in the Sun" ""I come upon him and he..."
May 2, 2005: "Heavenly" ""So much laughter is not heard...."
About The Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Marvin Bell, Madeline DeFrees, Joanne Diaz, Garrett Doherty, Margaret Gibson, Michael Heffernan, David Huddle, Paul Hunter, Zebulon Huset, Richard Jackson, Mary Oliver, Sydney Lea, Al Maginnes, Gianmarc Manzione, David Middleton, Derek Mong, Todd Shy, Matthew Sweeney, Richard Tillinghast, Robert Tremmel, Eliot Khalil Wilson, Melora Wolff

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The Southern Review * Louisiana State University * Old President's House * Baton Rouge, LA 70803-0001
Editor: Bret Lott

Other from West Branch in Verse Daily:
September 13, 2006: "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006: "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006: "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006: "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006: "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006: "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004: "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004: "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004: "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004: "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004: "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004: "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004: "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004: "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004: "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004: "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004: "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003: "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003: "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003: "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003: "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003: "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003: "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003: "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002: "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002: Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002: "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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