Today's poem is
"The Estate of Single Blessedness"
from Crazyhorse
Mary Ruefle
's Selected Poems was published by Wave Books in 2010; a collection of her lectures and essays on poetry, Madness, Rack and Honey, will appear in the fall of 2011.
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February 18, 2011: "Like a Daffodil" "What went on when I suddenly understood him..."
January 3, 2011: "Why I Am Not a Good Kisser" "Because I open my mouth too wide..."
November 1, 2008: "Spanish Fruit Bomb" "My literary inclinations..."
July 10, 2008: "A Certain Swirl" "The classroom was dark, all the desks were empty..."
July 1, 2008: "Snow" "Every time it starts to snow, I would like to have..."
August 2, 2004: "Speak, Zero" "There was a morning bowl of cereal..."
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February 18, 2011: "Like a Daffodil" by Mary Ruefle
January 27, 2011: "Valentine with broken birds" by Joni Wallace
January 23, 2011: "First Domestic" by Anne Marie Rooney
January 19, 2011: "Valentine with saints and sharps" by Joni Wallace
September 27, 2010: "Timbered" by Emily Rosko
September 26, 2010: "Cell Phone God" by Henry Hart
September 24, 2010: "Not Something To Be Captured, Did You See the Signs?" by Lucy Anderton
January 21, 2010: "Aubade with whales" by Bob Hicok
January 18, 2010: "Earth and Sky" "Of all things contained here..."
July 9, 2009: "The Fox" by Dean Young
July 6, 2009: "The House Rhapsody" by John Gallaher
July 1, 2009: "Matryoshka" by Teresa Pfeifer
June 29, 2009: "The Euphoria of Peoria" by Dean Young
January 9, 2009: "Go On, Sure, Why Not" by Gail Wronsky
January 8, 2009: "Psalm against a Rapture" by K. A. Hays
January 7, 2009: "In the hospital parking lot" by Marianne Boruch
July 26, 2008: "Fire" by Edip Caserver, translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast
July 21, 2008: "(detail)" by Billy Collins
January 6, 2008: "bearing on the glory of love" by Deborah Bogen
January 5, 2008: "The Dime-Store Parakeet" by Gary Soto
June 15, 2007: "O Mouth Fable" by Elena Karina Byrne
June 12, 2007: "Eat This" by Nance Van Winckel
June 11, 2007: "Inside the Body" by Nathan Hoks
December 24, 2006: "Northwest" by Stacie Cassarino
December 21, 2006: "If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In" by Kerri Webster
December 18, 2006: "Salt" by Gary Soto
June 11, 2006: "Eight" by Todd Smith
June 10, 2006: "Anecdote of the Field" by John Gallaher
June 7, 2006: "Bitterness" by Charlie Smith
June 5, 2006: "Again (Wrightsville Beach)" by Robert Creeley
December 23, 2005: "Spell for Setting the Sun" by Susan Meyers
December 20, 2005: "And the Wound Says" by Nance Van Winckel
December 18, 2005: "The Elephant's Graveyard" by David Wagoner
May 19, 2005: "Levels" Alexandra Teague
May 18, 2005: "Poem with No Moral at the End" Charlie Clark
November 28, 2004: "Spring and Winter, Coeval" by Charles M. Israel, Jr.
November 26, 2004: "Botanists Who Feel Excluded Rejoice" by Anthony Lacavaro
May 23, 2004: "Template" by A. V. Christie
May 21, 2004: "Is More Than" by Susan Hutton
May 17, 2004: "Solar Ice" by Paul Mariani
December 12, 2003: "East Dakota" by Edward Haworth Hoeppner
December 4, 2003: "May Suspensions" by James McCorkle
November 27, 2003: "Reservoir" by Doug Sanders
May 14, 2003: "Owls in the City Hills" by D. R. Goodman
May 13, 2003: "The Sightstop" by Bill Knott
January 26, 2003: "To His Mistress Going to Bed" by Nathan Hoks
January 21, 2003: "The Teller is the Only Survivor of the Fairy-Tale Ending" by Mark Yakich
January 20, 2003: "Cicadas And" by Nathan Hoks