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Today's poem is "Oracle"

from Black Warrior Review

Donika Kelly is the author of BESTIARY (Graywolf 2016), winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, long listed for the National Book Award (2016), and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award (2017), and the chapbook A VIA RI UM ( 500 Places 2017). Danika is an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University, where she teaches creative writing.

Books by Donika Kelly:

Other poems on the web by Donika Kelly:
"The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings."
"Self-Portrait as a Door"
"A Poem to Remind Myself of the Natural Order of Things"
Three poems
"Partial Hospitalization"

Donika Kelly's Website.

Donika Kelly on Twitter.

About Black Warrior Review:

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Poetry Editor: S. Whitney Holmes

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May 9, 2017:   "Sanitarium Bell" by Sara Jane Stoner
February 25, 2017:   "Horse Girl" by Laura Romeyn
February 24, 2017:   "Souvenir" by Jane Satterfield
February 22, 2017:   "Look Up" by Raymond McDaniel
June 19, 2014:   "The Shape of It" by Wendy Xu
June 17, 2014:   "when you land on Madison Ave." by Ben Pelhan
July 6, 2013:   "Wyld" by A. Minetta Gould
January 24, 2013:   "wake up your saints and settle down for the night" by Sasha Fletcher
January 23, 2013:   "Malamute" by Jehanne Dubrow
January 22, 2013:   "wake up your saints and settle down for the night" by Sasha Fletcher
June 13, 2012:   "Novelist" by Jon Davis
June 12, 2012:   "All the Sciences" by Laura Eve Engel
November 28, 2011:   "[20]" by Shelly Taylor
November 22, 2011:   "[7]" by Shelly Taylor
November 21, 2011:   "Miner Death" by Zachary Schomburg
June 6, 2011:   "On Buffers" by Elizabeth Robinson
June 5, 2011:   "Light Away Now" by Matt Cozart
November 18, 2010:   "Talking about Autumn Rain" by Nate Pritts
May 10, 2010:   "The Black Forest" by Christopher DeWeese
December 25, 2009:   "To Mindless Forces" by K.A. Hays
December 24, 2009:   "Untitled" by Andrew Zawacki
April 25, 2009:   "Oppenheimer Maps His Coordinates" by Cynthia Lowen
April 24, 2009:   "Self-Portrait as Zipper" by Courtney Queeney
January 16, 2009:   "The Platypus Speaks" by Sandra Beasley
December 28, 2007:   "Saint Anthony Falls" by William Waltz
December 20, 2007:   "A confluence of processes" by Bob Hicok
December 7, 2007:   "Cord of Wood" by Danielle Pafunda
December 6, 2007:   "Pearl" by Danielle Pafunda
December 5, 2007:   "I Am Talking Dirty to You Like You are the Only One in the Room" by Danielle Pafunda
December 3, 2007:   "Thanks for a Great Season, See You in the Spring" by Nancy K. Pearson
December 15, 2006:   "Fisher King" by Caki Wilkinson
December 14, 2006:   "Factbook" by Ian Harris
December 12, 2006:   "Apples" by Meagan Evans
December 13, 2003:  "After" by Donald Platt
December 3, 2003:  "Pigeons in Sleet" by Lissa Warren
July 11, 2003:  "Bestiary for the Breasts of a Starlet" by Melanie Dusseau

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