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Today's poem is "If You Were to Ask Me the State of My Country... "

from Copper Nickel

Chaun Ballard's biography was unavailable.

Books by Chaun Ballard:

Other poems on the web by Chaun Ballard:
"How I Survived"
"Portrait"
"Midway"
Two poems
"African Gutter Fish"
"Twelve Ways of Looking at Darkness"
Two poems

Chaun Ballard's Website.

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October 22, 2019:   "Sorrow" by Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2019:   "Full Disclosure" by Alan C. Fox
September 8, 2019:   "In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket" by Carol Potter
February 9, 2019:   "Nothing Is Fine" Susan Paris
March 17, 2017:   "Why We Climb Mountains" by Marti Noel
March 16, 2017:   "Even Rottweilers Sing" by Tim Amsden
November 30, 2016:   "Anthem" by Elaine Sexton
November 29, 2016:   "Redress" by Wendy Videlock
April 5, 2016:   "Stairway to Heaven Sonnet" by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
April 3, 2016:   "Apron Strings" by Beth Gylys
January 17, 2016:   "'It's Been a Week" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 16, 2015:   "Lorazepam" by Sam Sax
August 10, 2014:   "My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens When People Die and When I Hesitate She Answers Her Own Question" by Tina Parker
August 9, 2014:   "Watch" by Mike White
November 8, 2013:   "Tabula Rasa" by Matthew Wimberley
November 5, 2013:   "At the Edge of the Hennessey Farm" by Liz N. Clift
November 4, 2013:   "Universe in the Key of Matryoshka" by Ronnie K. Stephens

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