Today's poem is
"Day for Years of Distress"
from Gulf Coast
Elaine Bleakney
's poems have been published in Action, Yes; American Letters & Commentary, American Poetry Review, Spinning Jenny, and others. She lives in Florida.
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About Gulf Coast:
May 6, 2010: "Arise, Therefore" "What I didn't know was where the balloonists met. Long streams..."
April 27, 2006: "Hunger Essay" " He shows me a place in the forest..."
Two poems
Two poems
"Why did you move to this city?"
from "Small Liberties"
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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art *
Department of English *
University of Houston *
Houston, TX 77204-3013
Poetry Editors: Lauren Berry, Anna Journey and Kent Shaw
Other poems by Gulf Coast in Verse Daily:
December 20, 2011: "A Dedication to the Rich Is in the Ark" by Robert Ostrom
December 19, 2011: "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone" by Lily Brown
November 7, 2011: "The Space Traveler's Tense" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
December 24, 2010: "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen" by Jack Boettcher
December 23, 2010: "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone
September 2, 2010: "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly
September 1, 2010: "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks
December 10, 2009: "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
December 9, 2009: "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson
December 3, 2009: "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg
May 15, 2009: "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson
May 11, 2009: "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker
May 8, 2009: "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat
November 4, 2008: "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson
November 3, 2008: "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda
November 1, 2008: "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle
October 30, 2008: "Red" by Allan Petterson
October 29, 2008: "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh
June 15, 2008: "The End" by Victoria Chang
June 14, 2008: "Morality" by Susie Meserve
June 10, 2008: "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 10, 2008: "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok
April 18, 2005: "Sonnet" by Karen Volkman
April 4, 2005: "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" by George Looney
March 14, 2005: "The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello