About Gary McDowell and 32 Poems

Today's poem is "The Itch"

from 32 Poems

Gary McDowell's Aflame recently won the 2019 White Pine Press Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in Fall 2020. He is also the author of a collection of lyric essays, Caesura: Essays (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2017) and five previous collections of poetry, including Mysteries in a World that Thinks There Are None (Burnside Review Press, 2016) and Weeping at a Stranger's Funeral (Dream Horse Press, 2014). He’s also the co-editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press, 2010). His poems and essays have appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Nation, and Gulf Coast. He lives in Nashville, TN with his family where he's an associate professor of English at Belmont University.
Other poems by Gary McDowell in Verse Daily:
June 14, 2016: "Autumn Takes Inventory" "I have an extra pair of goggles, a grandfather..."
May 7, 2014: "Repent" "because nature is a haunted house..."
November 11, 2010: "Ovaries" "The body of water that cries..."
March 25, 2010: "How to Say I Love You" "On evenings when my dogs and I circle the block..."
Books by Gary McDowell:

Other poems on the web by Gary McDowell:
"Long Hunter State Park, Late Winter"
"The Lazarus Reflex"
"Symphony: A (Re)Phrasing"
"The Bed, The Chair..."
"How Mosquitoes Came to Be"
"Shuttlecock"
"Aubade (I've noticed)"
"Third Metatarsal"
"Nectar"
"Winter"
"Yellow Jackets"
Gary McDowell on Twitter.
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Other poems from 32 Poems in Verse Daily:
February 6, 2020: "Automaton Angels" by Rebecca Morgan Frank
February 5, 2020: "Soldier Heart" by Beth Gylys
February 4, 2020: "Entreaty" by Catherine Pierce
February 3, 2020: "The Elect" by Gary McDowell
March 28, 2017: "Love Poem" by Maggie Smith
September 26, 2016: "Vane" by Gary McDowell
September 23, 2016: "Prisoners' Parable of the Flood" by Susannah Nevison
January 19, 2016: "Father" by Jessica Piazza
January 18, 2016: "Summer" by Randall Mann
November 17, 2015: "Smetana" by Bruce Bond
October 17, 2013: "Self-Portrait with Quarry" by Elisabeth Murawski
October 16, 2013: "The Belt" by Noah Kucij
September 12, 2012: "Passion Flower" by Melissa Apperson
September 11, 2012: "Wandering Albatross" by Suzanne Zweizig
August 24, 2011: "Alley" by Jeffery L. Bahr
January 7, 2011: "Late" by Sidney Wade
January 6, 2011: "Dictator" by Melissa Stein
February 8, 2010: "Praise Nothing" by Joshua Robbins
June 25, 2009: "Bats in the Attic" by Chelsea Rathburn
June 23, 2009: "Rip Cord" by Jamie Thomas
February 22, 2009: "Bats in the Attic" by Anthony Walton
February 21, 2009: "The Pencil" by Billy Collins
April 22, 2007: "Thin Ice" by Randall Stiffler
November 30, 2005: "Cod" by David Roderick
May 16, 2005: "Bird Advice" Jill Alexander Essbaum
May 14, 2005: "Parting Shot" Brendan O'Connor
May 3, 2005: "Boat" Carol Frost
February 9, 2005: "Fabulous Ones" by Jeffrey Thomson
February 8, 2005: "Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings
February 7, 2005: "Year of the Blues" by A. C. Schaffer
June 29, 2004: "Bonfire" by Julie Funderburk
June 28, 2004: "Ill-Made Almighty" by Heather McHugh
January 3, 2004: "Vane Countries" by Geoffrey Brock
December 31, 2003: "Litany for Treetops" by C. J. Sage
July 15, 2003: "The Trouble with Being Born" by Christina Davis
July 14, 2003: "Outer Banks (II)" by Christian Wiman
July 9, 2003: "Sonnet" by Kimberly Johnson

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