Today's poem is
"Starting Small"
from Cimarron Review
Carrie Fountain
’s poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Marlboro Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, among others. She was a fellow at the James A. Michener Center for Writers, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Frank Waters Foundation in Taos, New Mexico. In 2005, she received both Swink Magazine’s Award for Emerging Writers and the Marlboro Poetry Prize. She lives and writes in Austin, TX, where she is the co-managing program director of Grrl Action, a writing and performance program for teenage girls.
Other poems on the web by Carrie Fountain:
"Purple Heart"
"Heaven"
"Burn Lake 2"
About Cimarron Review:
Poets in this issue: Hadara Bar Nadav, Leslie St. John, Sharon Black, Gabriel Spera, James Magorian, James Davis May, Patty Seyburn, Anastasia Afanasieva, Darren Jackson, John Foy, Courtney Mandryk, Chris Ellery, Chip Livingston, Emma Bolden, Onna Solomon, Janie Miller, Stephanie King, Keith Montesano, Anne Britting Oleson, Wendy Shreffler, Carrie Fountain, Benjamin Gotschall, Christopher Kang, Blas Falconer, Jeffrey McRae, Shane Seely
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