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Today's poem is "When I saw the loblolly pine,"

from The Cincinnati Review

Martha Silano has published four collections of poetry. Her fifth, Gravity Assist, will appear from Saturnalia Books in early 2019. She also coedited, with Kelli Russell Agodon, The Daily Poet: Day-By-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice (Two Sylvias Press, 2013). Martha teaches at Bellevue College.

Other poems by Martha Silano in Verse Daily:
November 25, 2014:   "Gerbils in Space" "and geckos. Fruit flies, kernels of com...."
May 16, 2014:   "The Untied States of America" "America, with your water-tower towns, your irrigation sprinklers..."
April 10, 2006:   "Gravitas" " A quarter cow in a cardboard box..."

Books by Martha Silano:

Other poems on the web by Martha Silano:
Two poems
Two poems
Five poems
"Regrets Only, Please"
"When I began to dig"
"At the Funeral of the Grammar Handbook"
Two poems
"Willing & Able"
"Despite Nagging Malfunctions"
Two poems
"Proverbs"
"I Work at the Barbie Factory"
Five poems
Two poems
"Poem for the New Year"

Martha Silano's Website.

Martha Silano on Twitter.

About The Cincinnati Review:

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Editor: Don Bogen

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February 9, 2017:   "Ocean in View" by Philip Pardi
February 8, 2017:   "Vs. Field" by Leah Poole Osowski
February 7, 2017:   "Seeing the famous, our desire for fame" by David O'Connell
October 9, 2014:   "We Real Nerds" by David Hernandez
October 7, 2014:   "The Tornado Wants a Companion" by Catherine Pierce
November 27, 2012:   "Inoperable" by Andrea Cohen
November 26, 2012:   "Rara Avis Decoy" by Lo Kwa Mei-en
November 21, 2012:   "Pittsburgh Plate & Glass Company Lot 63" by Sara J. Grossman
November 19, 2012:   "After Afterlude" by Medbh McGuckian
February 23, 2012:   "Talk-Talk, Ambulance Style" by Nance Van Winckel
July 4, 2011:   "At the Dock at Dusk" by Michael Chitwood
June 29, 2011:   "Wing" by Lisa Williams

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