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Today's poem is "Suffer the Shriveled of Spirit to Curse at You"

from Green Mountains Review

Charles Harper Webbs latest book, Brain Camp, was published in 2015. A Million MFAs Are Not Enough, a book of essays on contemporary American poetry, is forthcoming in 2016. Recipient of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, Webb teaches Creative Writing at California State University, Long Beach.

Other poems by Charles Harper Webb in Verse Daily:
March 7, 2013:   "Sand Fish" "It's said they started in beach sand..."
August 9, 2010:   "Puffer Fish" "When I snatch a fly out of the deepening dusk..."
October 24, 2009:   "The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start" "when, in the first movement of the Emperor Concerto..."
July 2, 2006:   "Biochemically Speaking, People Are Close Relatives of Soy" " Soy beans lack perky breasts, it's true...."
May 16, 2003:  "I Never Promised You a Worm Farm" "When her psychology patients start her wishing..."

Books by Charles Harper Webb:

Other poems on the web by Charles Harper Webb:
"Burka"
Two poems
Four poems
Eight poems
Two poems
"One-Armed Man"
"The Death of Santa Claus"
Two poems
"A Bad Way to Go"
"Weapon Salve"
Three poems
Five poems
Two poems
"What We Believe"
"Swimming Lesson"
"The Animals are Leaving"
"Foul Play"
Four poems
Seven poems
"To Make My Countrymen Love Poetry"
"The Animals are Leaving "

Charles Harper Webb according to Wikipedia.

About Green Mountains Review:

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Green Mountains Review * 337 College Hill * Johnson State College * Johnson, Vermont 05656 Editor: Neil Shepard

Other poems from Green Mountains Review in Verse Daily:
April 20, 2016:   "To Orpheus" by Carl Dennis
April 19, 2016:   "I, hermit" by Bob Hicok
December 9, 2015:   "Sugar" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
March 4, 2015:   "Poetry" by Naomi Mulvihill
April 17, 2014:   "Offering" by Weston Cutter
April 16, 2014:   "Bumper crop" by Charles Harper Webb
August 15, 2013:   "The Horses are Fighting" by Jill Osier
August 14, 2013:   "Neither Snow Shovel Nor Hoe" by Olena Kalytiak Davis
August 13, 2013:   "Body" by James Hoch
August 7, 2013:   "In the Horse Latitudes — Dodging Acts of God on 1-65 on a Tuesday" by Dana Roeser
December 12, 2012:   "On Omens" by Mark Wunderlich
March 29, 2012:   "My Francis Bacon essay" by Weston Cutter
September 2, 2011:   "What the Camera Says to the Voice" by Suzanne Wise
August 29   "So When She Looks at Her Reflection" by Patty Seyburn
August 25   "Found" by Stephanie Levin
April 18, 2011:   "Why I'm Not Coming to My Funeral" by Sue D. Burton
April 14, 2011:   "The Crowd at the Gates" by Stephen Dunn
April 12, 2011:   "Spun" by Anna Maria Hong
April 11, 2011:   "Calla lily, shameless" by Sandra Gilbert
November 14, 2010:   Two poems by Ellen Doré Watson
July 30, 2009:   "The Sumerians" by James Doyle
July 29, 2009:   "The Velocity of Love" by Kate Gleason
July 28, 2009:   "Tale" by Anna Lowe
June 12, 2008:   "The Rescue" by Wayne Miller
December 2, 2007:   "Flying Over America" by J.P. White
December 1, 2007:   "Visit" by David Huddle
November 30, 2007:   "Inquiry #3" by Susan Rich
November 28, 2007:   "History" by Betsy Sholl
February 2, 2007:   "In Retirement" by Ronald Wallace
January 31, 2007:   "Travel" by Kevin Pilkington
January 29, 2007:   "Lost Tense" by Stephen Malin
February 25, 2006:   "Brackets Make a Racket" by Maurya Simon
February 24, 2006:   "The Garden of Languages" by Jeanne Larsen
July 24, 2005:   "Driving Home, I see a Rothko Painting in the Distance and Pull Over to Give It a Lift" by Jason Koo
July 21, 2005:   "Eddy" Carol Frost
July 18, 2005:   "A Little Flying Over Americaing Music" Betsy Sholl
March 17, 2005:  "From the Road" by Eamon Grennan
March 16, 2005:  "The Sound of a Train" by Kathleen Flenniken
June 25, 2004:  "Dispersal" by Katherine Soniat
June 16, 2004:  "Codeine" by Christof Scheele
January 19, 2004:  "Kind of Blue" by Angie Estes
October 24, 2003:  "Mute Swan" by Louise Mathias
June 13, 2003:  "Driving Through the Valley" by Lynne Knight
June 11, 2003:  "Journey to the East" by Baron Wormser
March 17, 2003:  "Adolescence" by Gabriel Gudding

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