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Today's poem is "The Naturalist's Last Love Poem"

from Smartish Pace

Ashley Anna McHugh is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at the University of Arkansas and is a senior editor of Linebreak. Her book, Into These Knots (lvan R. Uee), and chapbook, Become All Flame (LATR) are forthcoming. She won the 2009 Morton Marr Poetry Prize and has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writer's Conference and the West Chester University Poetry Conference.

Books by Ashley Anna McHugh:

Other poems on the web by Ashley Anna McHugh:
"Of This Burning Heart"
"Shepherd Road"
"In Praise of the Light Bulb"

Ashley Anna McHugh on Twitter.

About Smartish Pace:

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April 17, 2009:   "Sand" by Bruce Bond
April 15, 2009:   "On Finally Blaming Myself a Little Finally" by Maggie Glover
April 14, 2009:   "Missed Connections" by Sherman Alexie
May 6, 2007:   "The Tightrope Walker" by Lesley Dauer
May 5, 2007:   "The Fox Explains The Dream of Foxes" by Hannah Craig
April 7, 2006:   "Me, The Wife: Versions of Medusa" by Lynnell Edwards
April 4, 2006:   "Palinurus" by A.E. Stallings
September 22, 2005:   "Capturing a Plum Blossom" by John Pursley III
September 21, 2005:   "eBay Sonnets" Denise Duhamel
September 19, 2005:   "Would-Be Pastoral Elegy" Gail White
February 4, 2005:  "Church" by Megan Snyder-Camp
February 3, 2005:  "Translation" by Robert Morgan
February 2, 2005:  "Second Bearing, 1919" by Claudia Emerson
January 31, 2005:  "Heat Lightning" by Ted Kooser
August 30, 2004:  "Without Mythologies" by Henry Weinfield
August 29, 2004:  "Fifty-Fifty" by Patricia Clark
August 23, 2004:  "Olivia Between Acts" by Stuart Lishan
August 21, 2004:  "Garden" by Theodore Worozbyt
January 8, 2004:  "Missouri River" by Lawrence Revard
January 7, 2004:  "Pontoon Pantoum #505" by Kathy Fagan
January 5, 2004:  "The Fool Card" by Annie Finch
July 30, 2003:  "The Fruit Thereof" by William Wenthe
July 29, 2003:  "Slow Leak" by Ellen Doré Watson
July 28, 2003:  "Poor Excuses" by Andi Werblin
December 1, 2002:  Squirrel Hunting by Edmund August
November 30, 2002:  49 Views of Childhood by Bin Ramke
November 28, 2002:  The Birdhouse by Greg Williamson
November 26, 2002:  A Letter from Mama (1916-1999) by Marilyn Nelson

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