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Today's poem is "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen"

from Gulf Coast

Jack Boettcher is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, The Deviants (Greying Ghost Press, 2009) and Surveyic Hero (horse less press, 2007). His poems and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, DIAGRAM, Pleiades, and several other journals. He lives in Austin.

Other poems on the web by Jack Boettcher:
Two poems
Four poems
Three poems
from The Deviants
from Boettcher School for Crippled Children
Two poems
"Untitled"

Jack Boettcher's Blog.

About Gulf Coast:

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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 23, 2010:   "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone
September 2, 2010:   "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly
September 1, 2010:   "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks
December 10, 2009:   "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
December 9, 2009:   "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson
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

March 9, 2008:   "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves
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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