About Mary Rose O'Reilley and The Literary Review

Today's poem is "Confession"

from The Literary Review

Mary Rose O'Reilley is the author of The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker Buddhist Shepherd (Milkweed Editions, 2000) and The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology (Milkweed Editions, 2006). Her first book of poetry, Half Wild (2006), won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also is the author of several books about teaching, including The Garden at Night: Burnout and Breakdown in the Teaching Life (2005). Recently retired from university teaching, she lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she works at being a potter, gardener, and folk musician.
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Three poems
"The Abandoned Farm"
Mary Rose O'Reilley according to Wikipedia.
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Other poems from The Literary Review in Verse Daily:
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October 20, 2009: "When We Decided to Build the Wall" by A.K. Scipioni
July 26, 2009: "Dust" by Ravi Shankar
May 20, 2009: "Elmina" by David Mills
January 25, 2009: "Il pleut" by Chris Glomski
September 28, 2008: "Morning Edition" by Andrzej Sosnowski, translated by Benjamin Paloff
September 22, 2008: "Popular Science" by Steve Davenport
March 21, 2008: "Morning Edition" by Michele Newcomb
March 18, 2008: "Gloucester" by Ann Snodgrass
October 19, 2007: "Lywelwyn's Dog" by Peter E. Murphy
October 16, 2007: "The Night in Question" by Paul Lisicky
April 4, 2007: "Climograph" by James Grinwis
April 1, 2007: "So You Want to Be a Teaching Assistant in English" by Jeff Worley
March 31, 2007: "In 1986 My Uncle Jack Sits On His Front Porch" by William Delman
May 25, 2006: "Fairy Tale" by Kathleen McGookey
May 22, 2006: "=" by Lightsey Darst
March 19, 2006: "Unveiling" by Diane Mehta
March 17, 2006: "but the house sparrows are . . ." by Jon Woodward
October 7, 2005: "When Will We Begin?" by Eric Elshtain
October 3, 2005: "Refugee" Richard Hoffman
May 27, 2005: "The Gazing-Globe Garden" Jeanne Larsen
May 24, 2005: "Music Left by Another" George Looney
May 22, 2005: "Dishonest Elegy for a Sentimental Mood" Melissa Koosmann
May 20, 2005: "Pas De L'Incise" D. Nurkse
January 27, 2005: "What Goes On" by Scott Topper
January 26, 2005: "We Golems" by Michael Demos
December 9, 2004: "Seeing Through Things" by Diane Mehta
December 8, 2004: "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" by Renée Ashley
December 7, 2004: "Fleur de Lys" by Daniel Mark Epstein
December 6, 2004: "Animals at My House" by Eduardo Chirinos, translated by G. J. Racz
October 9, 2004: "Prose Poems" by Louise Ho
May 19, 2004: "There Must be Music or Fear" by Rodney Wittner
May 18, 2004: "Pythia: The Process" by Rita Signorelli-Pappas
February 4, 2004: "Insomnia" by Rick Mulkey
May 28, 2003: "The Garden" by David Daniel
January 17, 2003: "The Shelter in Children's Stories" by Stephen Frech
December 29, 2002: "Quo Journal: Just as They Come" by Michael Morse
July 28, 2002: "The Heron" by Kathleen Jamie

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