Today's poem is
"Memo from Homeland Security"
from The Journal
Steven Cramer
's Goodbye to the Orchard won the New England poety Club's Sheila Motton Award and was named a 2005 Massachusetts Honor Book. He directs Lesley University's low-residency MFA creative writing program.
All the poems by Steven Cramer that have appeared on Verse Daily:
Books by Steven Cramer:
Goodbye to the Orchard,
Dialogue for the Left and the Right Hand,
The World Book,
Eye That Desires to Look Upward
Other poems on the web by Steven Cramer:
About The Journal:
February 11, 2007: "Children" "We pray they'll bury us, naturally...."
"A Basket of Eggs"
Four poems
"Maurice"
"Sketches at the Hayden Rec Center"
"Goodbye to the Orchard"
"A Brief History of the Enclosure Movement"
"Mother Conjuring in Hondo, Texas: 1945"
"Freud's Desk, Vienna, 1938"
"Homage to C.P. Cavafy"
"Letter from Boston to Ira Sadoff"
"Aix-En-Provence: April, 1975"
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January 9, 2007: "Memo from Homeland Security" by Betsy Wheeler
January 5, 2007: "Temptation to Believe" by Andrea Cohen
January 4, 2007: "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" by John Gallaher
January 2, 2007: "Easter, Looking Westward" by Kimberly Johnson
March 17, 2004: "What's Shorting Out the Good Show" by Martha W. Ostheimer
March 15, 2004: "Red and Black Days" by Robin Behn
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