About Benjamin S. Grossberg and River Styx

Today's poem is "Seeing Those Damn Greasy"

from River Styx

Benjamin S. Grossberg is the author of the forthcoming "American Melancholy: Poems" (Ecco). She is Visiting Distinguished Professor in the English Dept. at Rutgers for the spring term 2022.
Other poems by Benjamin S. Grossberg in Verse Daily:
August 11, 2022: "Ohio Mud" "As dirt it was silt-fine, soft on your forefinger..."
April 20, 2021: "The Next World" "Three years gone, the dog will greet me there...."
June 23, 2020: "The Finish Carpenter" "Half million, and what? Cardboard subfloors..."
April 27, 2017: "Spring Helps" "Spring helps. The theme of back to life..."
November 7, 2011: "The Space Traveler's Tense" "My species has one for nouns..."
February 8, 2008: "One Last Thought" "And what if one finally can't be found? What if Leander..."
December 20, 2006: "Time and Place" " Because I seem unable to get a handle..."
October 13, 2006: "Stepping on the Dog" " The high squeal, the instant retraction..."
Books by Benjamin S. Grossberg:

Other poems on the web by Benjamin S. Grossberg:
Two poems
Two poems
"Our Never"
Two poems
"Child Bride Dies of Internal Bleeding on her Wedding Night"
Six poems
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Lucas Texts"
"The Space Traveler's Crush"
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Other poems from River Styx in Verse Daily:
April 21, 2021: "Great Blue Heron" by Jehanne Dubrow
February 21, 2020: "Home Movies" by Emma Bolden
February 20, 2020: "Visitant" by Robert Wrigley
November 17, 2013: "One Hundredth Anniversary Edition of 'Birches'" by Richard Cecil
November 16, 2013: "Bon Fire" by Chris Mattingly
July 5, 2013: "Song of the Jellyfish" by Lee Upton
August 11, 2010: "Stone Seeking Warmth" by Stephen Dunn
August 9, 2010: "Puffer Fish" by Charles Harper Webb
July 2, 2009: "How to Sleep" by Dorianne Laux
August 2, 2008: "Sunset Knoll" by George Bilgere
July 7, 2007: "G Is for Not Just One George" by Mary Jo Bang
January 7, 2007: "To My Son In Iraq" by Frances Richey
January 3, 2007: "God's Ode to Creation" by Maura Stanton
July 23, 2006: "The Devil's Trill" by Timothy Liu
July 18, 2006: "The Fern Seed" by Cecily Parks
January 25, 2006: "Single-Lens Reflex" by Debra Kang Dean
January 12, 2006: "Becoming Involved" by Elizabeth Rees
June 2, 2005: "Eighty From Seventy-Eight" by William Gass
May 31, 2005: "Maybe" Myrna Stone
May 30, 2005: "Chum" Lucia Perillo
July 2, 2004: "In Ambient Light" by Greg Rappleye
June 30, 2004: "Darwin Enters the City of His Birth" by Melanie Dusseau
September 4, 2003: "Luxembourg howtosleeps at Twilight" by James Doyle
September 3, 2003: "Thank You" by Molly Peacock
March 7, 2003: "Love, with Trees and Lightning" by Catie Rosemurgy
March 6, 2003: "A Leopard Hanging in a Tree" by Eric Rawson
March 3, 2003: "Waiting With a Stranger" by David Simpson
February 25, 2003: "Fame and Fortune Cookie" by Richard Cecil
December 6, 2002: Small Ghost Poem by Lawrence Raab
December 4, 2002: Bride by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
September 16, 2002: "Advertisement for the Ford Explorer" by David Roderick
July 27, 2002: "Heroic Roses" by Elton Glaser

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