Today's poem is
"The Finish Carpenter"
from The Literary Review
Benjamin S. Grossberg
is the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford. His books include Space Traveler (University of Tampa Press, 2014) and Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa Press, 2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Tampa Review Prize. His latest collection, My Husband Would, is forthcoming from the University of Tampa Press this November.
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