About Mary Ann Samyn and Court Green

Today's poem is "In Answer to Your Burning Question"

from Court Green

Mary Ann Samyn's most recent books include Beauty Breaks In (New Issues, 2009), and The Boom of a Small Cannon (Dancing Girl Press, 2010). She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University.
Other poems by Mary Ann Samyn in Verse Daily:
November 3, 2009: "In a Dark Time Together" "All day I say every blessings I can think of...."
April 2, 2009: "Iridescent, One Might Say" "I was beautiful at a distance..."
June 3, 2008: "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" "—Some want a guiding principle, narrative pick-me-up...."
November 21, 2006: "Wish and What Happens" " Back to the fe fi ho hum of it...."
November 16, 2006: "An Introduction to Devotion" " Do you consider yourself adept? The face of..."
April 6, 2006: "Clarity, 1.2" " Considering The Despair of St. Thomas...."
October 15, 2004: "A Thought, for Example, Is a Form" "Of light. And at the center, light. And at the edges..."
Books by Mary Ann Samyn:

Other poems on the web by Mary Ann Samyn:
"My Life in Heaven"
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About Court Green:

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Other poems by Court Green in Verse Daily:
March 30, 2012: "Great Smoky Mountain National Park" by Bob Hicok
March 29, 2012: "My Francis Bacon essay" by Bob Hicok
March 27, 2012: "My Suicide" by Maggie Nelson
May 27, 2011: "'Never Let Your Reader's Attention Wander.'" by Ron Koertge
May 25, 2011: "Actually Present" by Paul Killebrew
May 23, 2011: "Flowers, For Frank" by Mary Ann Samyn
May 7, 2010: "Prayer for Teeth" by James Hoch
May 6, 2010: "Arise, Therefore" by Elaine Bleakney
February 5, 2009: Five poems by Sarah J. Sloat
February 3, 2009: "Hopkins Palindrome" by Aaron Belz
February 2, 2009: "Scullery" by Sarah J. Sloat
January 31, 2008: "The History of Bluegrass" by Jeffrey Bahr
January 30, 2008: "War Story" by Sarah Murphy
January 28, 2008: "The Blue Sylvia" by Terrance Hayes
March 15, 2007: "The Cry Bone's Connected to the Why Bone" by Jenny Browne
March 14, 2007: "Blackout" by Derek Mong
March 13, 2007: "New Year's Eve" by Nate Pritts

August 17, 2006: "Runaway Model" by James Shea
August 16, 2006: "Poem: A Tramp Shining (for Jimmy Webb)" by Richard Fox
August 15, 2006: "Poem: There Might Be Beauty" by Donald Revell

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