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Today's poem is "For the Night People"

from Beloit Poetry Journal

Muriel Nelsonhas two collections of poems, Part Song (Bear Star Press, 1999) and Most Wanted (ByLine Press, 2003). Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Northwest Review, and others. She teaches at Pierce College and Muckleshoot Tribal College in Washington State.

Other poems by Muriel Nelson in Verse Daily:
March 11, 2007:   "Open Other End" "In the land of toothpicks..."
September 11, 2006:   "Watch" " I'll tell you what I've seen..."
July 3, 2005:   "Ma (Or Pa)ternal" "To know, I thought, you have to make a child...."

Books by Muriel Nelson: Part Song

Other poems on the web by Muriel Nelson:
Three poems
"Finally Still"
"Fireweed"
"Remains"
"Feeding the Venus Flytrap"
"To Wit, To Dote"
"June 12"
Three poems

About Beloit Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Molly Bashaw, Regan Huff, Ruth Webber Evans, Steven D. Schroeder, Joseph J. Capista, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Joshua Doležal, Garth Greenwell, Paul Lisson, Janine Oshiro, Molly Tenenbaum, Heather Kirn, Sally Molini, L. L. Harper, Margaret Aho, Muriel Nelson, Gary Fincke

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Editor: John Rosenwald & Lee Sharkey

Other poems from Beloit Poetry Journal in Verse Daily:
May 29, 2008:   "A Song in There" by Betsy Sholl
May 27, 2008:   "Apostrophe to What's Still Here" by Christine Marshall
February 12, 2008:   "Jazz from Cripple City" by Stephen Kuusisto
December 27, 2007:   "Fetching" by Christopher Matthews
December 26, 2007:   "One of the Magi" by Greg Wrenn
September 14, 2007:   "A Story About Things" by Heather Maki
September 13, 2007:   "The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder" by Mia Nussbaum
September 10, 2007:   "Extravagance" by Steve Wilson
March 25, 2007:   "Lullaby" by Seth Abramson
March 24, 2007:   "Directions" by Erin Malone
March 20, 2007:   "Doing Hegel's Laundry" by Melissa Tuckey
December 7, 2006:   "Ghost Train" by Rhoda Janzen
September 19, 2006:   "Blue Visits" by Rane Arroyo
June 25, 2006:   "The Mortgaging of Self Is Done" by Aimée Sands
June 20, 2006:   "Sisyphus" by Malcolm Alexander
March 31, 2006:   from The Book of Zeros by Sam Reed
March 30, 2006:   "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 28, 2006:   "St. Francis in Winter" by Marianne Boruch
March 27, 2006:   "Marianne Boruch" by Matthew Thorburn
January 13, 2006:   "from Gomorrah, a sequence" by Tony Brinkley
January 4, 2006:   "For Orts" by Ander Monson
January 1, 2006:   "Milkweed" by Susan Maxwell
September 8, 2005:   "Roman Elegy" by Michael Snediker
September 7, 2005:   "Faced with 8:38" and "8:38 is straw" " Mary Molinary
September 5, 2005:   "Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" " Albert Goldbarth
July 23, 2005:   "Elemental: Nitrogen" Suzanne Heyd
July 22, 2005:   "The Blue-Gray Body of the Zambezi" Dawn Lonsinger
July 20, 2005:   "Making History" and "A Disappearing Act" Karl Elder
March 4, 2005:  "Catherine Blake" by Rebecca Dunham
March 3, 2005:  "Cartographic" by Joshua Rivkin
March 2, 2005:  "Turning 50" by Bruce A. Jacobs
August 28, 2004:  "Obsolescence" by Leigh Anne Couch
August 27, 2004:  "The Weight of the World" by Frank Steele
August 26, 2004:  "For the Suicides" by Lola Haskins
August 25, 2004:  "Half Life" by Reynolds Dixon
August 24, 2004:  "The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker" by Bruce Tindall
June 11, 2004:  "Famish" by Lisa Furmanski
June 8, 2004:  "A Short History of the Republic" by John Haines
March 7, 2004:  "Waning Moon" by Conrad Hilberry
March 5, 2004:  "Portrait of the Family Without a Father" by Ken Victor
March 4, 2004:  "At the Intersection" by Andrea Heny
March 1, 2004:  "Marriage Bed" by Annie Boutelle
December 23, 2003:  "Exactly at midnight" by Margaret Aho
April 8, 2003:  "The Totality of Facts" by Allan Peterson

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