Today's poem is
"The Pencil"
from 32 Poems
Billy Collins
's latest collection of poems is Ballistics (Random House, 2008).
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July 21, 2008: "(detail)" "It was getting late in the year..."
March 3, 2007: "China" "I am an ant inside a blue bowl..."
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32 Poems Magazine * Texas Tech University * Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
Editor: John Poch & Deborah Ager
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May 16, 2005: "Bird Advice" Jill Alexander Essbaum
May 14, 2005: "Parting Shot" Brendan O'Connor
May 3, 2005: "Boat" Carol Frost
February 9, 2005: "Fabulous Ones" by Jeffrey Thomson
February 8, 2005: "Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings
February 7, 2005: "Year of the Blues" by A. C. Schaffer
June 29, 2004: "Bonfire" by Julie Funderburk
June 28, 2004: "Ill-Made Almighty" by Heather McHugh
January 3, 2004: "Father Countries" by Geoffrey Brock
December 31, 2003: "Litany for Treetops" by C. J. Sage
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July 14, 2003: "Outer Banks (II)" by Christian Wiman
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