Today's poem is
"Young John Clare"
from Crab Orchard Review
Michael Waters
's recent books include Darling Vulgarity, a 2006 finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Partenopi: New and Selected Poems, both from BOA Editions. He also edited the new edition of Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin). He teaches in the New England College MFA Program and at Monmouth University.
Other poems by Michael Waters in Verse Daily:
Books by Michael Waters:
Darling Vulgarity,
Contemporary American Poetry,
A. Poulin, Jr.: Selected Poems,
Parthenopi,
Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum,
Bountiful,
The Burden Lifters,
The Barn in the Air,
Anniversary of the Air,
Air Touched By the Axe,
Not Just Any Death,
In Memory of Smoke,
The Scent of Apples,
Fish light
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