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Today's poem is "Nothing to It"

from New Orleans Review

Chris Forhan is the author of The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, which won the Morse Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award, and Forgive Us Our Happiness, which won the Bakeless Prize. His work appears in The Best American Poetry 2008. He lives in Indianapolis, where he teaches at Butler University.

Other poems by Chris Forhan in Verse Daily:
October 2, 2005:   "Dream: Obedience" " Some boys won't go willingly. I will...."

Books by Chris Forhan: The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, Forgive Us Our Happiness, X: A poem

Other poems on the web by Chris Forhan:
"A Child’s Guide to Etiquette"
"Vanishing Act"
"Last Words"
"Oh Blessed Season"
Five poems
"Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer"

About New Orleans Review:

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New Orleans Review * Box 195 * Loyola University * New Orleans, LA 70118
Poetry Editor: Katie Ford

Other poems from New Orleans Review in Verse Daily:

May 5, 2008:   "Obey Gravity" by Cynthia Arrieu-King & Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
May 1, 2008:   "In Support of Corporate Farms" by Cody Lumpkin
April 28, 2008:   "Preemptive Elegy" by Paul Guest
January 3, 2008:   "'King,' 'Queen,' etc." by Alison Powell
January 1, 2008:   "This Morning After Snow, the Body Scrapes Off" by K. A. Hays
June 1, 2007:   "Owl" by Endi Hartigan

May 31, 2007:   "Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages" by Kimberly Johnson
November 20, 2006:   "Recapitulation" by Deborah Tall
November 13, 2006:   "Upshot" by Deborah Tall
May 20, 2006:   "the caveat onus ::: twenty-three" by Dave Brinks
August 27, 2005:   "I Lived in the Forest" by Emmy Hunter
August 25, 2005:   "from Crossed, Cross, Crossing" Esther Lee
August 23, 2005:   "Paradise" James Capozzi
February 27, 2005:  "After The Accident" by Molly Brodak
February 22, 2005:  "Anonymous Fox" by Naomi Feigelson Chase
February 21, 2005:  "Antihelion: Conception of the Yellow House" by Robin Behn
August 19, 2004:  "Gacela of Animal Wisdom" by J. P. Dancing Bear
August 18, 2004:  "Even So" by Susanne Kort
August 17, 2004:  "His Dossier from Babel" by Andrew Miller
August 14, 2004:  "Daedalus" by Hailey Leithauser
January 18, 2004:  "The Idea of Nothing" by Sue Owen
January 14, 2004:  "Muster" by Ander Monson

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