Today's poem is
"An Ascetic Impulse Surfaces, Tears Leaves from Their Stems"
from Willow Springs
Melissa Kwasny
is the author of six books of poetry, most recently
Where Outside the Body is the Soul Today (University of Washington
Press Pacific Northwest Poetry Series 2017) and Pictograph (Milkweed
Editions 2015), as well as a collection of prose writings, Earth Recitals:
Essays on Image and Vision (Lynx House Press 2013). Recently published
by Trinity University Press, Putting on the Dog: The Animal Origins of
What We Wear is her first book of nonfiction. Kwasny currently serves as
Montana Poet Laureate, a position she shares with M. L. Smoker.
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