Today's poem is
"I Don't Mind the Mess that Comes from Pressing Hard, from Scribbling Over Scribbling to Cross Things Out (But I Hate Erasable Ink)"
from Salt Hill Journal
Matt Mauch
grew up in small Midwestern towns between the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, in the snow and wind-chill belt. He is the author of Prayer Book (Lowbrow Press) and the chapbook The Book of Modern Prayer (Palimpsest Press). His poems have appeared in NOO Journal, DIAGRAM, The journal, Willow Springs, The Squaw Valley Review, The Los Angeles Review, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. The editor of Poetry City, USA, Volume 1 (forthcoming from Lowbrow Press), Mauch teaches writing and literature in the AFA program at Normandale Community College and coordinates the reading series there. He lives in Minneapolis.
Books by Matt Mauch:
Other poems on the web by Matt Mauch:
Four poems
"Prayer for Those Flying Solo on Jet Planes Ascending and Descending Through Turbulence Who Are Reminded of the Ghost on a Bicycle Ghost-Riding Stairs"
Two poems
"There is the Hiding, Here is the Seeking"
Matt Mauch's Website.
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