Lois Marie Harrod's Spat was published in May 2021 (Finishing Line Press), and her 17th collection Woman, in February 2020 ( Blue Lyra ). Nightmares of the Minor Poet appeared in June 2016 from Five Oaks; her chapbook And She Took the Heart appeared in January 2016; Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. Life-long educator and writer, she is published in literary journals and online ezines from American Poetry Review to Zone 3.

Other poems by Lois Marie Harrod in Verse Daily:
October 17, 2021:   "Large Reclining Nude" "I said to him I said..."
September 14, 2016:   "The Minor Poet Gives the Two-Poem Warning" "Two more poems, the poet says..."
October 10, 2013:   "What the Phoenix Sings to the Ashes" "Let me tell you..."
September 19, 2013:   "Doorknobs" "Someday one will turn and slip—hot and heavy..."
March 2, 2012:   "Headway beyond Fresh Kills" "What was a flagging headway of salty trees..."
July 2, 2011:   "Love, the English Teacher" "Love, the English teacher, grades the snow...."
April 16, 2006:   "Walt Whitman's Sermon on Spirituality to a Certain Congregation of Worms" " Open your mouth to the cease that surrounds..."
September 27, 2004:  "Voltages for Different Locations" "And I began to think of my heart as a ferris wheel..."

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Other poems on the web by Lois Marie Harrod:
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"Fog in the Alley"
"This World's Light"

Lois M. Harrod's Website.

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