About Gary Soto and Crazyhorse

Today's poem is "The Dime-Store Parakeet"

from Crazyhorse

Gary Soto is the author of ten poetry collections, including New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Nation, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Ontario Review, and Poetry. He received the "Discovery"/The Nation Prize, the US Award of the International Poetry Forum, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the California Arts Council. He serves as Young People's Ambassador for the California Legal Assistance and the United Farm Workers of America. He lives in Berkeley, California.
All the poems by Gary Soto that have appeared on Verse Daily:
December 18, 2006: "Salt" " That's it, I think. Everyone I knew turned..."
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Other poems on the web by Gary Soto:
Six poems
"How Things Work"
"Oranges"
Seven poems
"Ghost Mask"
"Without the Elation of Rage"
"Immaculate Measure"
"Disguise Mask"
Gary Soto's Home Page.
Gary Soto according to Wikipedia.
About Crazyhorse:
Poets in this issue: Deborah Bogen, Marie Étienne, Marilyn Hacker, Megan Gannon, James Grinwis, Paul Guest, Mark Halliday, James Haug, Janet Kaplan, Jonas Lerman, Wayne Miller, Steve Mueske, Jude Nutter, Sam Reed, Tomaz Salamun, Brian Henry, H. E. Sayeh, Chad Sweeney, Mojdeh Marashi, Kaethe Schwehn, Gary Soto, Adrienne Su, Ellen Wehle, Dara Wier, Dean Young

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Other poems from Crazyhorse in Verse Daily:
June 15, 2007: "O Mouth Fable" by Elena Karina Byrne
June 12, 2007: "Eat This" by Nance Van Winckel
June 11, 2007: "Inside the Body" by Nathan Hoks
December 24, 2006: "Northwest" by Stacie Cassarino
December 21, 2006: "If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In" by Kerri Webster
December 18, 2006: "Salt" by Gary Soto
June 11, 2006: "Eight" by Todd Smith
June 10, 2006: "Anecdote of the Field" by John Gallaher
June 7, 2006: "Bitterness" by Charlie Smith
June 5, 2006: "Again (Wrightsville Beach)" by Robert Creeley
December 23, 2005: "Spell for Setting the Sun" by Susan Meyers
December 20, 2005: "And the Wound Says" by Nance Van Winckel
December 18, 2005: "The Elephant's Graveyard" by David Wagoner
May 19, 2005: "Levels" Alexandra Teague
May 18, 2005: "Poem with No Moral at the End" Charlie Clark
November 28, 2004: "Spring and Winter, Coeval" by Charles M. Israel, Jr.
November 26, 2004: "Botanists Who Feel Excluded Rejoice" by Anthony Lacavaro
May 23, 2004: "Template" by A. V. Christie
May 21, 2004: "Is More Than" by Susan Hutton
May 17, 2004: "Solar Ice" by Paul Mariani
December 12, 2003: "East Dakota" by Edward Haworth Hoeppner
December 4, 2003: "May Suspensions" by James McCorkle
November 27, 2003: "Reservoir" by Doug Sanders
May 14, 2003: "Owls in the City Hills" by D. R. Goodman
May 13, 2003: "The Sightstop" by Bill Knott
January 26, 2003: "To His Mistress Going to Bed" by Nathan Hoks
January 21, 2003: "The Teller is the Only Survivor of the Fairy-Tale Ending" by Mark Yakich
January 20, 2003: "Cicadas And" by Nathan Hoks

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