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Today's poem is "Iridescent, One Might Say"

from Colorado Review

Mary Ann Samyn's most recent book of poems is Purr (New Issues, 2005). A new collection, Beauty Breaks In, is forthcoming in 2009. She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University.

Other poems by Mary Ann Samyn in Verse Daily:
June 3, 2008:   "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" "—Some want a guiding principle, narrative pick-me-up...."
November 21, 2006:   "Wish and What Happens" " Back to the fe fi ho hum of it...."
November 16, 2006:   "An Introduction to Devotion" " Do you consider yourself adept? The face of..."
April 6, 2006:   "Clarity, 1.2" " Considering The Despair of St. Thomas...."
October 15, 2004:  "A Thought, for Example, Is a Form" "Of light. And at the center, light. And at the edges..."

Books by Mary Ann Samyn:

Other poems on the web by Mary Ann Samyn:
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About Colorado Review:

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Colorado Review * 9105 Campus Delivery * Department of English * Colorado State University * Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
Poetry Editors: Donald Revell * Sasha Steensen * Matthew Cooperman

All other poems from Colorado Review that have appeared on Verse Daily:
March 31, 2009:   "Secret Sea" by Nathan Parker

March 30, 2009:   "Hare" by Joseph Campana
January 6, 2009:   "Ontology and the Platypus" by Kathy Fagan
August 8, 2008:   "Smithereens" by L. S. Klatt
August 6, 2008:   "Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside" by John Isles
April 18, 2008:   "Bends" by Ron Paul Salutsky
April 15, 2008:   "Schrödinger Reincarnated" by Dana Curtis
January 4, 2008:   "You'll See a Sailboat" by Jaswinder Bolina
January 2, 2008:   "Furlough" by Leslie Williams
December 23, 2007:   "Eye Contact" by Craig Morgan Teicher
December 17, 2007:   "In a Better World Than This" by James Cushing
November 19, 2007:   "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 22, 2007:   "Fighting" by Dana Goodyear
November 21, 2007:   "Flicker" by Joanna Klink
November 20, 2007:   "Poem Beside Itself" by Graham Foust
November 19, 2007:   "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 8, 2007:   "If You Should Care For Me" by Lacy Schutz
October 29, 2007:   "Would That We Had" by DLacy Schutz

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