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Today's poem is "The Opening"

from Five Points

Philip Schultz's most recent book of poetry, Failure (Harcourt, 2007), won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. He founded and directs The Writers Studio, a private school for fiction and poetry writing in Manhattan.

Other poems by Philip Schultz in Verse Daily:
January 7, 2008:   "The Traffic" "At first it objected..."

Books by Philip Schultz:

Other poems on the web by Philip Schultz:
"Failure"
"The One Truth"
"Why"
"The God of Loneliness"
Two poems
"Husband"
"Aging Egoists"

Philip Schultz according to Wikipedia.

About Five Points:

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Other poems by Five Points in Verse Daily:
May 14, 2009:   "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009:   "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008:   "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008:   "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008:   "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008:   "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007:   "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007:   "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007:   "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006:   "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005:   "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005:   "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005:   "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005:   "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005:  "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005:  "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005:  "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004:  "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003:  "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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