About Joshua Bennett and Colorado Review

Today's poem is "The Hurricane Doesn't Roar in Pentameter"

from Colorado Review

Joshua Bennett Joshua Bennett is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth. He is the author of five books of poetry, criticism, and narrative nonfiction: The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)—winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award—Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), winner of the MLA's William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Owed (Penguin, 2020), The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022), and Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023). For his creative writing and scholarship, Joshua has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, MIT, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His work has been published in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Massachusetts.
Other poems by Joshua Bennett in Verse Daily:
February 23, 2021: "Dad Poem" "A boy, I am told...."
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"Dad Poem"
"Dad Poem (Ultrasound #2)"
Three poems
Eigth poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Token Sings the Blues"
Three poems
Joshua Bennett's Website.
Joshua Bennett on Twitter.
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All other poems from Colorado Review that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 17, 2021: "The Train Moves Smooth" by Cullen Baily Burns
January 18, 2021: "A Nation of Two" by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
January 17, 2020: "Aubade With Myself Leaving Myself Behind" by Anne Barngrover
January 16, 2020: "Self-Portrait as Lake" by Despy Boutris
August 28, 2020: "If/When" by Catherine Pierce
August 27, 2020: "Riddle, Oregon" by Ryler Dustin
August 26, 2020: "Considering The Options" by Gary McDowell
August 25, 2020: "Being Seen" by Tara Bray
June 29, 2020: "Desire Path" by Louise Mathias
June 28, 2020: "Peter" by Kazim Ali
June 26, 2020: "The coreopsis is crushed in an oval where the deer must have slept," by Angie Macri
December 19, 2019: "Dogwood (Two)" by Lorna Dee Cervantes
December 18, 2019: "Recr483y 1: Spring Cleaning" by Dorine Jennette
December 17, 2019: "Ventriloquist" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
December 16, 2019: "Yah" by Bruce Bond
April 24, 2019: "Nuthatches" Laura Paul Watson
April 23, 2019: "Confiteor" Brianna Noll
April 22, 2019: "Later, I Learned to Speak Without a Tongue." Lisa Allen Ortiz
March 15, 2019: "Flesh Memory" Caroline Crew
March 13, 2019: "Gaslight" E. G. Cunningham
March 12, 2019: "As Weapons Need Murder" Melissa Ginsburg
June 9, 2015: "Interval" by William Stobb
June 8 2015: "Thou" by Joshua McKinney
January 19, 2015: "A Month of Sundays" by Terrence Chiusano
January 13, 2015: "Annunciation" by Ronnie Yates
July 7, 2014: "Backward-Spreading Brightness" by Christopher Kondrich
March 5, 2014: "In the Dumps" by Heather Christle
March 4, 2014: "Leaving Labor and Delivery" by Erin Rodoni
March 3, 2014: "Proof" by Ashley Seitz Kramer
May 16, 2013: "Words Against the Walls of the City" by Lorna Dee Cervantes
April 5, 2013: "Valediction Lessons: Flora" by Lorna Dee Cervantes
March 4, 2013: "Another Pastoral A" by Aaron McCollough
November 2, 2012: "Just Vanilla" "She was a pistol...."
October 31, 2012: "After the Feast at Year's End" by Brenda Hillman
October 30, 2012: "Une Lettre de la Mer de Glace" by Jo Ann Clark
July 17, 2012: "Sleep Song" "I want to remember the picture..."
July 16, 2012: "When a Man and a Woman Are Alone Together, the Third Person Present Is Satan" by Claire Sylvester Smith
December 23, 2011: "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
December 22, 2011: "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" by John Gallaher
September 28, 2011: "Portrayal, X-Ray" by Cori A. Winrock
September 26, 2011: "The Strategy" by Kascha Semonovitch
June 23, 2011: "The Commendation" by Dean Young
August 21, 2010: "Conditionals" by Ryan Flaherty
December 23, 2009: "Untitled" by Ryan Flaherty (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)
August 29, 2009: "Repititions" by Jennifer Moxley
April 6, 2009: "The People on the Bus" by Stephen Burt
April 4, 2009: "A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order" by Jack Ridl
April 2, 2009: "Iridescent, One Might Say" by Mary Ann Samyn
March 31, 2009: "Secret Sea" by Nathan Parker

March 30, 2009: "Hare" by Joseph Campana
January 6, 2009: "Ontology and the Platypus" by Kathy Fagan
August 8, 2008: "Smithereens" by L. S. Klatt
August 6, 2008: "Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside" by John Isles
April 18, 2008: "Bends" by Ron Paul Salutsky
April 15, 2008: "Schrödinger Reincarnated" by Dana Curtis
January 4, 2008: "You'll See a Sailboat" by Jaswinder Bolina
January 2, 2008: "Furlough" by Leslie Williams
December 23, 2007: "Eye Contact" by Craig Morgan Teicher
December 17, 2007: "In a Better World Than This" by James Cushing
November 19, 2007: "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 22, 2007: "Fighting" by Dana Goodyear
November 21, 2007: "Flicker" by Joanna Klink
November 20, 2007: "Poem Beside Itself" by Graham Foust
November 19, 2007: "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 8, 2007: "If You Should Care For Me" by Lacy Schutz
October 29, 2007: "Would That We Had" by DLacy Schutz

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