Today's poem is
"A Name for Illness I Knew, but Couldn't Say"
from Third Coast
Chelsea Dingman
is a Visiting Instructor at the University of South
Florida. Her first book, Thaw, was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the
National Poetry Series (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Her chapbook,
What Bodies Have I Moved, is forthcoming from Madhouse Press (2018).
In 2016-17, she also won The Southeast Review's Gearhart Poetry Prize,
The Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize, Water-stone Review's Jane Kenyon
Poetry Prize, and The South Atlantic Modern Language Association's
Creative Writing Award for Poetry. Her work can be found in Ninth Letter,
The Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, Cincinnati Review, and Prairie
Schooner, among others.
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About Third Coast:
March 4, 2017: "Ghost Walk After the Resurrection" "I hear the clatter of hands inside..."
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"The Suicide"
"For My Son: A Forest of Stars"
"Barbarisms"
"When the World"
"After Fleeing a War in the Second Wave"
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"Last Night I Knew Myself"
"Diaspora"
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"Letter to My Mother from the Shuswap"
"How Briefly the Body"
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"City, Surrounded"
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November 12, 2015: "Grandeur in a mug of wine" by Alexis Pope
June 25, 2014: "Narrative" by Jenny Molberg
June 24, 2014: "A mother poem" by Tom Useted
November 21, 2013: "Hurricane Birds" by dawn lonsinger
November 19, 2013: "Nocturne" by Max Somers
November 18, 2013: "A Taste, With Explosions of Woody and Floral Undertones" by Katie Jean Shinkle
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