Today's poem is
"A Coin-Operated Button-Down Collar"
from The National Poetry Review
Mary Biddinger
is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007) and Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press, 2011). Her poetry has appeared in 32 Poems, Copper Nickel, diode, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, The National Poetry Review, North American Review, Passages North, Third Coast, and many other journals. She is the editor of the Akron Series in Poetry and co-editor-in-chief of Barn Owl Review.
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