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Today's poem is "Matryoshka (as Madness)"

from Copper Nickel

Alexandra Teague is the author of two books of poetry: The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea Books, 2015) and Mortal Geography (2010), winner of the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the 2010 California Book Award for Poetry. The recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the 2014 Missouri Review Editors' Prize, Teague teaches at the University of Idaho and is an editor for Broadsided Press.

Other poems by Alexandra Teague in Verse Daily:
August 3, 2010:   "Hurricane Season" "When I become accustomed at last to lying in bed alone..."
May 19, 2005:  "Levels" ""We're looking for that sure thing: the glowing yellow..."

Books by Alexandra Teague:

Other poems on the web by Alexandra Teague:
"Language Lessons"
Three poems
"Adjectives of Order"
"Cartier"
"Language Lessons"
"The Common Field"
"What I Know for Sure"
"Heartlines"
"Ghost Tours: Diamond Bessie, 1877"
Transcontinental

Alexandra Teague's Website.

About Copper Nickel:

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Poetry Editor: Carrie Jerrell


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