Today's poem is
"Fetching"
from Beloit Poetry Journal
Christopher Matthews
is neither an American political talk show host nor an Irish poet of the same name. And yet his poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Gettysburg Review, Quarterly West, Shenandoah, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Lexington, Virginia, where he occasionally teaches at Washington and Lee University.
Books by Christopher Matthews: A New Life, Eyelevel: Fifty Histories
Other poems on the web by Christopher Matthews:
"Boris"
About Beloit Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Jeremiah Webster, M. A. Schaffner, Christina LaPrease, Nance Van Winckel, Sandra Kohler, Leonore Hildebrandt, Christopher Matthews, Greg Wrenn, Jennifer Borges Foster, Jeff McRae, Peter Munro, Karen Johnson, Tony Brinkley, Sandra Liu, Angela Rydell, Stephen Malin
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