Today's poem is
"Dictator"
from 32 Poems
Melissa Stein
’s poetry collection Rough Honey won the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Southern Review, Best New Poets 2009, New England Review, and other journals.
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32 Poems Magazine * Texas Tech University * Lubbock, TX 79409-3091
Editor: John Poch & Deborah Ager
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June 25, 2009: "Bats in the Attic" by Chelsea Rathburn
June 23, 2009: "Rip Cord" by Jamie Thomas
February 22, 2009: "Bats in the Attic" by Anthony Walton
February 21, 2009: "The Pencil" by Billy Collins
April 22, 2007: "Thin Ice" by Randall Stiffler
November 30, 2005: "Cod" by David Roderick
May 16, 2005: "Bird Advice" Jill Alexander Essbaum
May 14, 2005: "Parting Shot" Brendan O'Connor
May 3, 2005: "Boat" Carol Frost
February 9, 2005: "Fabulous Ones" by Jeffrey Thomson
February 8, 2005: "Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings
February 7, 2005: "Year of the Blues" by A. C. Schaffer
June 29, 2004: "Bonfire" by Julie Funderburk
June 28, 2004: "Ill-Made Almighty" by Heather McHugh
January 3, 2004: "Father Countries" by Geoffrey Brock
December 31, 2003: "Litany for Treetops" by C. J. Sage
July 15, 2003: "The Trouble with Being Born" by Christina Davis
July 14, 2003: "Outer Banks (II)" by Christian Wiman
July 9, 2003: "Sonnet" by Kimberly Johnson