Verse Daily: Robert Cording

Today's poem is "Sparrows"

from the Southern Review

Robert Cording teaches English and creative writing at College of the Holy Cross where he is the Barrett Professor of Creative Writing. He has published five collections of poems: Life-list (1987); What Binds Us to This World (1991); Heavy Grace (1996); Against Consolation (2002); and just out from CavanKerry, Common Life. A frequent contributor to magazines, including this one, he lives with his family in Woodstock, Connecticut.
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, Paul Guest, Robert Cording

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Other from West Branch in Verse Daily:
December 23, 2006: "Questions for Silence" by Paul Guest
December 19, 2006: "Sparrows" by Mary Oliver
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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