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Today's poem is "Even the Dead Do It"

from Southwest Review

Sue Owen's latest book of poetry, The Devil's Cookbook, was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2007. Her previous books are Nursery Rhymes for the Dead, The Book of Winter, and My Doomsday Sampler. She taught as the Poet-in-Residence at LSU, but has retired and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Other poems by Sue Owen in Verse Daily:
August 16, 2004:  "Termite Trouble" "Their raw hunger goes way..."
January 18, 2004:  "The Idea of Nothing" "Out of nothing, I..."

Books by Sue Owen: The Devil's Cookbook, My Doomsday Sampler, The Book of Winter, Nursery Rhymes for the Dead

Other poems on the web by Sue Owen:
Six poems
"The Philosophy of Pitchforks"

About Southwest Review:

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Southwest Review * Southern Methodist University * P.O. Box 750374 * Dallas TX 75275-0374
Editor-in-Chief: Willard Spiegelman

Other poems from Southwest Review in Verse Daily:
June 6, 2008:   "What She Thought" by Jennifer Clarvoe
February 11, 2008:   "Domestic Manners of the Americans" by Debora Greger
August 7, 2007:   "Free Fall" by David Wagoner
June 3, 2007:   "Curse" by David Lehman
February 6, 2007:   "Communiqué" by Carol Stevens Kner
December 22, 2006:   "The Man at the Dump" by Brian Swann
December 20, 2006:   "Time and Place" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
September 20, 2006:   "The Man at the Dump" by Stephen Cushman
July 26, 2006:   "Last Poem in May" by Judith Harris
May 23, 2006:   "The Poetry of Bad Weather" by Debora Greger
May 16, 2006:   "Oracle" by Michael Spence
March 13, 2006:   "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" by William Logan
January 7, 2006:   "Grotesque" by Sarah Arvio
September 16, 2005:   "Rosemary" Andrew Frisardi
July 2, 2005:   "Eve Leaves Eden" by Celia Gilbert
June 29, 2005:   "Snowdon Philosophy" Neil Shepard
March 25, 2005:  "UFOs" by Hailey Leithauser
March 24, 2005:  "Tornado/Warning" by Brian Henry
March 23, 2005:  "Variations on a Theme Beginning With Darkness" by Julianne Buchsbaum
November 27, 2004:  "Everything" by Judith Harris
June 22, 2004:  "Money" by Daniel Corrie
June 20, 2004:  "Some Thoughts on the Bergen Street Renaissance" by Tess Taylor
June 17, 2004:  "The Green Going On" by Larry Bradley
April 1, 2004:  "Poison" by Charles Martin
March 30, 2004:  "Rehearsals for the New Order" by Bruce Bond
March 29, 2004:  "For Rent" by Dolores Hayden
December 2, 2003:  "Hay Field on Methodist Hill" by Deborah Warren
December 1, 2003:  "Platonic" byWilliam Wenthe
June 19, 2003:  "The Park Interpreter Speaks" by Leslie Noyes Harrison
June 3, 2003:  "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
March 11, 2003:  "Restoration, Full Moon Garden" by Andrew McCord
March 10, 2003:  "The Dunes" by William Logan
December 22, 2002:  "Georgic" by Michael J. Rosen
December 20, 2002:  "Wisdom Teeth" by Eliza Griswold
December 18, 2002:  Variations on a Postcard by T. S. Eliot by Karl Kirchwey
September 20, 2002:  "Chevron and Swoop" by Cecily Parks

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