About Ron Koertge and Rattle

Today's poem is "Because Wolves Are A Protected Species, This One Is Merely Interrogated"

from Rattle

Ron Koertge is the current poet Laureate of South Pasadena, Ca. His most recents poetry books are "Olympusville" from Red Hen Press and "Yellow Moving Van" from University of Pittsburgh Press.
Other poems by Ron Koertge in Verse Daily:
January 30, 2014: "Little, Small, Wee Bear" "The rangers may have to shoot the grizzly..."
May 27, 2011: "'Never Let Your Reader's Attention Wander.'" "In Cat People, Oliver marries Irena, but she says they can't..."
December 12, 2009: [Emerson said, "Every word was once an animal." Re: bunny.] "Emerson said, "Every word was once an animal." Re: bunny...."
Books by Ron Koertge:

Other poems on the web by Ron Koertge:
Four poems
"Negative Space"
"Sky Burial"
Five poems
Three poems
"Ornithology"
Five poems
"First Grade"
Three poems
Ron Koertge's Website.
Ron Koertge on Twitter.
About Rattle:

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Other poems by Rattle in Verse Daily:
October 28, 2020: "Note to Self" by David Mason
October 27, 2020: "Poetry Workshop" by Vivian Shipley
October 26, 2020: "My Love, Though the Smart Speaker Is Spying on Us" by Jeffrey Morgan
July 29, 2020: "Asterisks" by Martin Vest
July 28, 2020: "The Fact That There's A Snake Tunneling Through My Grass Doesn't Make The Parting Of The Blades Any Less Beautiful." by Tom C. Hunley
July 27, 2020: "Peeling Potatoes in Puerto Vallarta" by Lynne Knight
May 25, 2020: "Triolets on a Dune Shack" by Carolyne Wright
May 23, 2020: "The Cow I Didn't Eat" by Lollie Butler
May 22, 2020: "Chernobyl" by George Bilgere
November 25, 2019: "If You Were to Ask Me the State of My Country..." by Chaun Ballard
October 24, 2019: "What My Children Remember" by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
October 23, 2019: "Chasing Home" by Ifeoluwa Ayandele
October 22, 2019: "Sorrow" by Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2019: "Full Disclosure" by Alan C. Fox
September 8, 2019: "In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket" by Carol Potter
February 9, 2019: "Nothing Is Fine" Susan Paris
March 17, 2017: "Why We Climb Mountains" by Marti Noel
March 16, 2017: "Even Rottweilers Sing" by Tim Amsden
November 30, 2016: "Anthem" by Elaine Sexton
November 29, 2016: "Redress" by Wendy Videlock
April 5, 2016: "Stairway to Heaven Sonnet" by Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton
April 3, 2016: "Apron Strings" by Beth Gylys
January 17, 2016: "'It's Been a Week" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 16, 2015: "Lorazepam" by Sam Sax
August 10, 2014: "My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens When People Die and When I Hesitate She Answers Her Own Question" by Tina Parker
August 9, 2014: "Watch" by Mike White
November 8, 2013: "Tabula Rasa" by Matthew Wimberley
November 5, 2013: "At the Edge of the Hennessey Farm" by Liz N. Clift
November 4, 2013: "Universe in the Key of Matryoshka" by Ronnie K. Stephens

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