About Charles Harper Webb and River Styx

Today's poem is "Puffer Fish"

from River Styx

Charles Harper Webb's latest book, Shadow Ball: New & Selected Poems, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press last fall. Recipients of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, Webb directs Creative Writing at California State University, Long Beach.
Other poems by Charles Harper Webb in Verse Daily:
October 24, 2009: "The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start" "when, in the first movement of the Emperor Concerto..."
July 2, 2006: "Biochemically Speaking, People Are Close Relatives of Soy" " Soy beans lack perky breasts, it's true...."
May 16, 2003: "I Never Promised You a Worm Farm" "When her psychology patients start her wishing..."
Books by Charles Harper Webb:

Other poems on the web by Charles Harper Webb:
Three poems
Five poems
Two poems
"What We Believe"
"Swimming Lesson"
"The Animals are Leaving"
"Foul Play"
Four poems
Seven poems
"To Make My Countrymen Love Poetry"
"The Animals are Leaving "
Charles Harper Webb according to Wikipedia.
About River Styx:

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Other poems from River Styx in Verse Daily:
July 2, 2009: "How to Sleep" by Dorianne Laux
August 2, 2008: "Sunset Knoll" by George Bilgere
July 7, 2007: "G Is for Not Just One George" by Mary Jo Bang
January 7, 2007: "G Is for Not Just One George" by Mary Jo Bang
January 3, 2007: "God's Ode to Creation" by Maura Stanton
July 23, 2006: "The Devil's Trill" by Timothy Liu
July 18, 2006: "The Fern Seed" by Cecily Parks
January 25, 2006: "Single-Lens Reflex" by Debra Kang Dean
January 12, 2006: "Becoming Involved" by Elizabeth Rees
June 2, 2005: "Eighty From Seventy-Eight" by William Gass
May 31, 2005: "Maybe" Myrna Stone
May 30, 2005: "Chum" Lucia Perillo
July 2, 2004: "In Ambient Light" by Greg Rappleye
June 30, 2004: "Darwin Enters the City of His Birth" by Melanie Dusseau
September 4, 2003: "Luxembourg howtosleeps at Twilight" by James Doyle
September 3, 2003: "Thank You" by Molly Peacock
March 7, 2003: "Love, with Trees and Lightning" by Catie Rosemurgy
March 6, 2003: "A Leopard Hanging in a Tree" by Eric Rawson
March 3, 2003: "Waiting With a Stranger" by David Simpson
February 25, 2003: "Fame and Fortune Cookie" by Richard Cecil
December 6, 2002: Small Ghost Poem by Lawrence Raab
December 4, 2002: Bride by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
September 16, 2002: "Advertisement for the Ford Explorer" by David Roderick
July 27, 2002: "Heroic Roses" by Elton Glaser

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