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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 Raffertyreceived 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.

Other poems by Charles Rafferty in Verse Daily:
November 7, 2006:   "Landslide" " Suddenly what loomed..."

Books by Charles Rafferty:

Other poems on the web by Charles Rafferty:
"Ohio"
Three poems
"Against Hesitation"
Two poems
"The Man Describes His Tuesday Night at the Traveling Circus"
"Arizona"
"The Man Who Stopped Not Drinking"

About The Literary Review:

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Poetry Editors: Renée Ashley * David Daniel

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March 31, 2010:   "Divine Wow:" by Bruce Cohen
March 28, 2010:   "Confession" by Mary Rose O'Reilley
October 23, 2009:   "To Leuconoë" by Erica McAlpine
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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