Today's poem is
"Doorknobs"
from Ninth Letter
Lois Marie Harrod
's thirteenth collection, Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis, is forthcoming from WordTech in March 2013. She won the Tennessee Chapbook Prize 2012 (Poems & Plays) with her manuscript The Only Is. She teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey.
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About Ninth Letter:
March 2, 2012: "Headway beyond Fresh Kills" "What was a flagging headway of salty trees..."
July 2, 2011: "Love, the English Teacher" "Love, the English teacher, grades the snow...."
April 16, 2006: "Walt Whitman's Sermon on Spirituality to a Certain Congregation of Worms" " Open your mouth to the cease that surrounds..."
September 27, 2004: "Voltages for Different Locations" "And I began to think of my heart as a ferris wheel..."
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"Lunch at Lakewood Middle School"
"How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth"
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"The Shadow of a Crow"
"Lucky Seven"
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July 28, 2010: "Youths" by Michael Rutherglen
July 26, 2010: "Love Note" by Leslie Adrienne Miller
February 3, 2010: "Waking Up at the Wheel" by Christopher Kennedy
February 2, 2010: "Maimonides on What Is Meant by 'Vision'" by Benjamin Paloff
June 19, 2009: "A Great Whirring" by Bruce Snider
June 18, 2009: "It Is Virtually Without Thickness and Has Almost" by Angie Estes
June 16, 2009: "The Widdershins Garden" by Olivia Clare