Martha Silano is the author of What the Truth Tastes Like, Blue Positive, The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Noted Book of 2011, and a Washington State Book Award finalist), and Reckless Lovely. Her poems have appeared widely, in such places as The Paris Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review Online, American Poetry Review, and in The Best American Poetry 2009. Martha teaches at Bellevue College.

Other poems by Martha Silano in Verse Daily:
March 19, 2019:   "When I saw the loblolly pine, " "its furrowed bark, I knew I was close..."
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"

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