Today's poem is
"The Man Waiting for the Lake To Still" and "The Man with a Boat at the Bottom of the Lake"
from The Literary Review
Charles Rafferty
received an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing. He is the author of four poetry collections, most recently A Less Fabulous Infinity. He directs the MFA program at Albertus Magnus College.
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