Today's poem is
"The Guidance Counselor to the Girl"
from Crab Orchard Review
Catherine Pierce
is the author of Famous Last Words, winner of the 2007 Saturnalia Book Poetry Prize, as well as of a chapbook, Animals of Habit (Kent State University Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Slate, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Blackbird, and Best New Poets 2007. She teaches at Mississippi State University.
Other poems by Catherine Pierce in Verse Daily:
Books by Catherine Pierce:
Famous Last Words,
Animals of Habit
Other poems on the web by Catherine Pierce:
Catherine Pierce's Blog.
About Crab Orchard Review:
June 24, 2008: "'This is Funny'" "Not the whiskey, though that, too..."
July 10, 2004: "Nor Hell a Fury" "I am the step that creaks...."
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Two poems
"Last Meal"
"Love Poem to Sinister Moments"
"I Go Back to Ohio"
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