About Joan Colby and Smartish Pace

Today's poem is "Summer Meadow in Gotland"

from Smartish Pace

Joan Colby is the author of The Atrocity Book (Eastern Washington, 1984), The Lonely Hearts Killers (Spoon River, 1986) and five other books of poetry. She has received two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and an IAC Artist Fellowship. Her poetry received an honorable mention in the 2008 and 2009 James Hearst Poetry Prize contest, won a 2009 Editor's Choice award from MARGIE and was a finalist for both the 2007 GSU Poetry Contest and The Pabio Neruda Prize for Poetry.
Other poems by Jennifer Chang in Verse Daily:
April 8, 2009: "Shell" "Broken conch whitened and drilled with tiny holes..."
Books by Joan Colby:

Other poems on the web by Joan Colby:
"Demain (Tomorrow)"
"Illness of Horses: A Woman Meditates"
About Smartish Pace:

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Other poems from Smartish Pace in Verse Daily:
August 16, 2010: "The Naturalist's Last Love Poem" by Ashley Anna McHugh
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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