Today's poem is
"Looking Forward to the Twentieth Century"
from West Branch
James Doyle
's new book of poetry, Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes, will be published by Steel Toe Books in 2007. His poems are forthcoming in Appalachia, River Styx, Georgetown Review, and Mid-American Review.
Other poems by James Doyle in Verse Daily:
March 21, 2007: "All That Glitters Is Gold" "Wine flask, beer cans..."
January 15, 2007: "Among the Most Recent Projectiles" " storming the sky is the earth...."
January 24, 2004: "After the Harvest" "We step over and between apples..."
September 4, 2003: "Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight" "If I lived in the nineteenth century..."
Books by James Doyle: Einstein Considers a Sand Dune
Other poems on the web by James Doyle: "Magritte" "Vitamins"
About West Branch:
Poets in this issue: Danielle Cadena Deulen, John Gallaher, William Jolliff, John Kinsella, Paul Gibbons, Brian Patrick Heston, James Doyle, Nancy Eimers, Christopher Cunningham, Peter Waldor, William Olsen
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