Today's poem is
"Pitbull"
from Gulf Coast
Kimberly Johnson
is the author of two collections of poetry, Leviathan with a Hook and A Metaphorical God, as well as a translation of Virgil's Georgics. She has recent work in Fence and Yale Review.
Other poems by Kimberly Johnson in Verse Daily:
September 18, 2008: "Love Song" "Stay, adder, startled from the spikenard..."
July 23, 2008: "Jubilee" "No seduction in the hothouse, its aisles..."
May 31, 2007: "Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages" " Prayed loud all night and so humbled over..."
January 11, 2007: "On Divination by Birds" " Try a small black radio from any year..."
January 2, 2007: "Easter, Looking Westward" " The stars! the stars have fled the sky!..."
July 9, 2003: "Sonnet" "No seduction in the hothouse, its aisles..."
Books by Kimberly Johnson:
Other poems on the web by Kimberly Johnson:
"Marking the Lambs"
"Voluptuary"
"Sonnet"
Kimberly Johnson's Web site.
Kimberly Johnson according to Wikipedia.
About Gulf Coast:
Subscription: 1 year (2 issues), $16 March 9, 2008: "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves
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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art *
Department of English *
University of Houston *
Houston, TX 77204-3013
Poetry Editors: Lauren Berry, Anna Journey and Kent Shaw
Other poems by Gulf Coast in Verse Daily:
December 3, 2009: "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg
May 15, 2009: "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson
May 11, 2009: "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker
May 8, 2009: "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat
November 4, 2008: "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson
November 3, 2008: "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda
November 1, 2008: "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle
October 30, 2008: "Red" by Allan Petterson
October 29, 2008: "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh
June 15, 2008: "The End" by Victoria Chang
June 14, 2008: "Morality" by Susie Meserve
June 10, 2008: "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 10, 2008: "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok
April 18, 2005: "Sonnet" by Karen Volkman
April 4, 2005: "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" by George Looney
March 14, 2005: "The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello
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