Today's poem is "Sword Swallower"

from Beloit Poetry Journal

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Editor: John Rosenwald & Lee Sharkey

Other poems from Beloit Poetry Journal in Verse Daily:
June 29 2015:   "Doing the Loop" by Andrea Cohen
January 9, 2015:   Two poems by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
January 8, 2015:   "Evergreen Cemetery, 1990" by M. P. Ritger
January 7, 2015:   "Mississippi Crossing" by Kevin Heaton
April 2, 2014:   "The Age of Increment" by Anna Maria Hong
April 1, 2014:   "Pompey, 67 BC" by Sally Wen Mao
March 31, 2014:   "Orison" by Betsy Sholl
January 21, 2014:   "That Which There Are No Words For" by Jennifer Lighty
February 7, 2013:   "Labwork" by John A. Nieves
February 6, 2013:   "Lighthouse" by Philip Brooks
February 4, 2013:   "Coumeenole Beach / Cancer Journal 6" by Steve Wilson
January 7, 2013:   "Above the Lake" by Stephen O'Connor
January 4, 2013:   "In the Ear of Our Lord" by Brendan Constantine
January 3, 2013:   "The Dream" by Roger Mitchell
January 2, 2013:   "O Anchor" by Matthew Nienow
July 6, 2012:   "Less" by Amelia Klein
July 4, 2012:   "Lake Saganaga" by Jill Osier
July 3, 2012:   "Kitty Got a Clinking Coming from the Races" by Charles Wyatt
May 10, 2012:   "Less" by Kim Roberts
May 4, 2012:   "Medicine" by Kim Roberts
February 11, 2012:   "By Virtue of And" by Jami Macarty
July 14, 2011:   "Untranslatable" by Rebecca Dunham
July 13, 2011:   "With a big simile" by Muriel Nelson
October 24, 2010:   "Root" by Karen Lepri
June 16, 2010:   two poems from Bird Signs by Mary Molinary
June 15, 2010:   "Hokkaido" by Lucia Perillo
March 6, 2010:   "Seeds and Seeding" by Nathaniel Perry
September 10, 2009:   "Destinations, VI." by Nick Courtright
June 22, 2009:   "A Dog in Hanoi" by Joseph Duemer
February 25, 2009:   "Evening" by Steve Wilson
December 8, 2008:   ": Shadow : Dwelling : " by Jessica Goodfellow
September 13, 2008:   "Difficult Speech: Welcome" by Molly Tenenbaum
September 12, 2008:   "For the Night People" by Muriel Nelson
May 29, 2008:   "A Song in There" by Betsy Sholl
May 27, 2008:   "Apostrophe to What's Still Here" by Christine Marshall
February 12, 2008:   "Jazz from Cripple City" by Stephen Kuusisto
December 27, 2007:   "Fetching" by Christopher Matthews
December 26, 2007:   "One of the Magi" by Greg Wrenn
September 14, 2007:   "A Story About Things" by Heather Maki
September 13, 2007:   "The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder" by Mia Nussbaum
September 10, 2007:   "Extravagance" by Steve Wilson
March 25, 2007:   "Lullaby" by Seth Abramson
March 24, 2007:   "Directions" by Erin Malone
March 20, 2007:   "Doing Hegel's Laundry" by Melissa Tuckey
December 7, 2006:   "Ghost Train" by Rhoda Janzen
September 19, 2006:   "Blue Visits" by Rane Arroyo
June 25, 2006:   "The Mortgaging of Self Is Done" by Aimée Sands
June 20, 2006:   "Sisyphus" by Malcolm Alexander
March 31, 2006:   from The Book of Zeros by Sam Reed
March 30, 2006:   "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 28, 2006:   "St. Francis in Winter" by Marianne Boruch
March 27, 2006:   "Marianne Boruch" by Matthew Thorburn
January 13, 2006:   "from Gomorrah, a sequence" by Tony Brinkley
January 4, 2006:   "For Orts" by Ander Monson
January 1, 2006:   "Milkweed" by Susan Maxwell
September 8, 2005:   "Roman Elegy" by Michael Snediker
September 7, 2005:   "Faced with 8:38" and "8:38 is straw" " Mary Molinary
September 5, 2005:   "Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" " Albert Goldbarth
July 23, 2005:   "Elemental: Nitrogen" Suzanne Heyd
July 22, 2005:   "The Blue-Gray Body of the Zambezi" Dawn Lonsinger
July 20, 2005:   "Making History" and "A Disappearing Act" Karl Elder
March 4, 2005:  "Catherine Blake" by Rebecca Dunham
March 3, 2005:  "Cartographic" by Joshua Rivkin
March 2, 2005:  "Turning 50" by Bruce A. Jacobs
August 28, 2004:  "Obsolescence" by Leigh Anne Couch
August 27, 2004:  "The Weight of the World" by Frank Steele
August 26, 2004:  "For the Suicides" by Lola Haskins
August 25, 2004:  "Half Life" by Reynolds Dixon
August 24, 2004:  "The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker" by Bruce Tindall
June 11, 2004:  "Famish" by Lisa Furmanski
June 8, 2004:  "A Short History of the Republic" by John Haines
March 7, 2004:  "Waning Moon" by Conrad Hilberry
March 5, 2004:  "Portrait of the Family Without a Father" by Ken Victor
March 4, 2004:  "At the Intersection" by Andrea Heny
March 1, 2004:  "Marriage Bed" by Annie Boutelle
December 23, 2003:  "Exactly at midnight" by Margaret Aho
April 8, 2003:  "The Totality of Facts" by Allan Peterson

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