About Marty McConnell and Court Green

Today's poem is "elegy"

from Court Green

Marty McConnell lives in Chicago. She received her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Her first full-length collection, wine for a shotgun, was published in 2012 by EM Press.
Other poems by Marty McConnell in Verse Daily:
May 10, 2013: "animal, vegetable, mineral" "last night I felt a salt sorrow rise..."
November 20, 2010: "the fidelity of disagreement" "because there are seven kinds of loneliness..."
Books by Marty McConnell:

Other poems on the web by Marty McConnell:
Three poems
"Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell"
"survival poem #17"
"Instructions for a Body"
"collision theory"
Two poems
"Fable Telling How Night Invented Herself Out of Sound"
"Marrying the Violence"
Marty McConnell's Blog.
Marty McConnell on Twitter.
About Court Green:

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Other poems by Court Green in Verse Daily:
July 8 2015: "Poetics" by Mark Leidner
October 20, 2014: "Morning Poem" by Matthew Burgess
April 3, 2012: "Fall for You" by Todd McCarty
April 2, 2012: "In Answer to Your Burning Question" by Mary Ann Samyn
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 Todd McCarty
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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