Today's poem is
"The Back Roads"
from Pleiades
Jennifer Givhan
Givhan's first book
of poetry, Landscape with Headless Mama, won the Pleiades Editor's Prize for 2015 and is forthcoming from
Pleiades Press in 2016.
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Other poems on the web by Jennifer Givhan:
"The Polar Bear"
"The Problem With My Eyes"
"Mars One Candidate Alison Rigby"
Four poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Lieserl Contemplates Resurrection"
"Devil at the Movies"
"Tasseography of Pregnancy After Miscarriage"
"Ritual With Fish Water"
"Burial"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
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Pleaides: A Journal of New Writing * Department of English * Central Missouri State University * Warrensburg, MO 64093
Editor: Kathryn Nuernberger
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