About Luke Johnson and Southwest Review

Today's poem is "Problems with the Dictionary"

from Southwest Review

Luke Johnson is the author of After the Ark (NYQ Books, 2011). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Best New Poets, Epoch, New England Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington, where he is working on his second collection.
Books by Luke Johnson:

Other poems on the web by Luke Johnson:
"The Heart, Like a Bocce Ball"
Three poems
Four poems
"Glass Doors"
Luke Johnson's Blog.
Luke Johnson on Twitter.
About Southwest Review:

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Southwest Review * Southern Methodist University * P.O. Box 750374 * Dallas TX 75275-0374
Editor-in-Chief: Willard Spiegelman

Other poems from Southwest Review in Verse Daily:
November 29, 2011: "The Gleaners" by David Moolten
May 13, 2011: "Nostalgic" by Paula Bohince
February 22, 2011: "The Writer" by Anne Pierson Wiese
September 9, 2010: "Empire of Light" by Bruce Bond
October 13, 2009: "The Ark in the Window" by Debora Greger
December 10, 2008: "Metronome" by Sally Van Doren
December 9, 2008: "How We Didn't Tell Her" by Sandra M. Gilbert
September 6, 2008: "Deer in the Apples" by Joan Murray
June 8, 2008: "Even the Dead Do It" by Sue Owen
June 6, 2008: "What She Thought" by Jennifer Clarvoe
February 11, 2008: "Domestic Manners of the Americans" by Debora Greger
August 7, 2007: "Free Fall" by David Wagoner
June 3, 2007: "Curse" by David Lehman
February 6, 2007: "Communiqué" by Carol Stevens Kner
December 22, 2006: "The Man at the Dump" by Brian Swann
December 20, 2006: "Time and Place" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
September 20, 2006: "The Man at the Dump" by Stephen Cushman
July 26, 2006: "Last Poem in May" by Judith Harris
May 23, 2006: "The Poetry of Bad Weather" by Debora Greger
May 16, 2006: "Oracle" by Michael Spence
March 13, 2006: "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" by William Logan
January 7, 2006: "Grotesque" by Sarah Arvio
September 16, 2005: "Rosemary" Andrew Frisardi
July 2, 2005: "Eve Leaves Eden" by Celia Gilbert
June 29, 2005: "Snowdon Philosophy" Neil Shepard
March 25, 2005: "UFOs" by Hailey Leithauser
March 24, 2005: "Tornado/Warning" by Brian Henry
March 23, 2005: "Variations on a Theme Beginning With Darkness" by Julianne Buchsbaum
November 27, 2004: "Everything" by Judith Harris
June 22, 2004: "Money" by Daniel Corrie
June 20, 2004: "Some Thoughts on the Bergen Street Renaissance" by Tess Taylor
June 17, 2004: "The Green Going On" by Larry Bradley
April 1, 2004: "Poison" by Charles Martin
March 30, 2004: "Rehearsals for the New Order" by Bruce Bond
March 29, 2004: "For Rent" by Dolores Hayden
December 2, 2003: "Hay Field on Methodist Hill" by Deborah Warren
December 1, 2003: "Platonic" byWilliam Wenthe
June 19, 2003: "The Park Interpreter Speaks" by Leslie Noyes Harrison
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
March 11, 2003: "Restoration, Full Moon Garden" by Andrew McCord
March 10, 2003: "The Dunes" by William Logan
December 22, 2002: "Georgic" by Michael J. Rosen
December 20, 2002: "Wisdom Teeth" by Eliza Griswold
December 18, 2002: Variations on a Postcard by T. S. Eliot by Karl Kirchwey
September 20, 2002: "Chevron and Swoop" by Cecily Parks

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