Verse Daily: Stephen C. Behrendt

Today's poem is "Leaving the Land"

from the Southern Review

Stephen C. Behrendt is George Holmes Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, where most of his teaching and research activities center on British Romantic literature, art, and culture. His third collection of poems, History, was published by Mid-List Press in summer 2005.
About the Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Ralph Angel, Stephen C. Behrendt, Ciaran Berry, James Brasfield, John Casteen, Chard deNiord, Mary Jo Firth Gillett, Ava Leavell Haymon, Joseph Heithaus, Christina Hutchins, Sydney Lea, Federico García Lorca, Maureen McQuerry, Richard Michelson, Sean Norton, Brent Pallas, Alison Pelegrin, Nate Pritts, Ron Rash, Heddy Reid, Rita Mae Reese, Tim Skeen, Floyd Skloot, Katherine Smith, William Snyder Jr., Kathleen Spivack, Brian Swann, Kristen Tracy, Daneen Wardrop, Ellen Wehle

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Editor: Bret Lott

Other from West Branch in Verse Daily:
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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