About Wendy Barker and the Southern Review

Today's poem is "Teaching 'The Red Wheelbarrow' the Thirtieth Time"

from the Southern Review

Wendy Barker Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years, a novel in prose poems, was runner-up for the Del Sol Prize and was published in 2009, as was her third chapbook, Things of the Weather. She has received National Endowment for the Arts and Rockefeller fellowships and is poet-in-residence and a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Other poems by Wendy Barker that have appeared on Verse Daily:
June 5, 2009: "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" "How I'd like to buy flowers, how I'd like to place a sterling..."
June 12, 2003: "Full Moon, Cirrocumulus, Light Breeze, and Iridescence" and "High Sky" "The sky has slipped its stitches..."
Books by Wendy Barker:

Other poems on the web by Wendy Barker:
Four poems
About the Southern Review:

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Other poems from the Southern Review in Verse Daily:

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Other from the Southern Review in Verse Daily:
January 9, 2010: "Elegy as Spot's Lift-the-Flap Book" by Victoria Chang
January 8, 2010: "An Algebra of Fifty" by Catherine Abbey Hodges
September 12, 2009: "I Was Thinking of Beauty" by Sydney Lea
September 11, 2009: "Cosmonauts" by Rhett Iseman Trull
June 5, 2009: "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Wendy Barker
June 3, 2009: "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic
June 2, 2009: "Questions about Birds" by Billy Collins
February 20, 2009: "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms
November 21, 2008: "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
November 20, 2008: "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt
August 29, 2008: "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl
August 28, 2008: "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman
August 27, 2008: "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown
August 26, 2008: "Settle" by Chanda Feldman
May 11, 2008: "Midden" by Brendan Galvin
February 3, 2008: "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel
January 29, 2008: "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay
November 10, 2007: "Columba livia" by Sandra Meek
November 9, 2007: "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker
November 6, 2007: "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok
August 5, 2007: "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser
August 2, 2007: "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah
June 6, 2007: "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
June 5, 2007: "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe
February 9, 2007: "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin
September 15, 2006: "God of The" by Garrett Doherty
September 14, 2006: "One Morning a Rose Blooms" by Richard Tillinghast
September 13, 2006: "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006: "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006: "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006: "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006: "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006: "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004: "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004: "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004: "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004: "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004: "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004: "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004: "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004: "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004: "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004: "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004: "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003: "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003: "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003: "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003: "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003: "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003: "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003: "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002: "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002: Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002: "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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