Verse Daily: Melissa Stein

Today's poem is "Trouble."

from the Southern Review

Melissa Stein's poems have appeared in New England Review, American Poetry Review, Many Mountains Moving, North American Review, Calyx Journal, Crab Orchard Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She is a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco.
About The Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Seth Abramson, Dan Albergotti, Alison Baumann, Jack B. Bedell, Ron Block, Rick Bursky, Ron De Maris, William Greenway, Emily Grosholz, Bob Hicok, Mark Jarman, Richard Jones, Lance Larsen, Barbara Lau, Christopher Matthews, Susan Meyers, Jean Nordhaus, Wyatt Prunty, Christine Rhein, Thom Satterlee, R. T. Smith, W. D. Snodgrass, Jane Springer, Melissa Stein, Keith Taylor, William Wenthe

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Editor: Bret Lott

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December 30, 2002: "Brains" by Rodney Jones
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