About Lynne Knight and The Southern Review

Today's poem is "Erstwhile Island Gardener"

from The Southern Review

Lynne Knight is the author of six full-length poetry collections and six chapbooks. Her awards and honors include publication in Best American Poetry, a PSA Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, a RATTLE Poetry Prize, and an NEA grant. She lives on Vancouver Island.
Other poems by Lynne Knight in Verse Daily:
September 22, 2022: "The Warm Bed" "We decided not to think about being..."
July 27, 2020: "Peeling Potatoes in Puerto Vallarta" "I used to remember everything...."
October 8, 2016: "Dream Circuit" "There was a man whose dreams I could have listened to..."
May 22, 2007: "Afterbirth" " There's a look of panic on his face...."
June 13, 2006: "Cell Talk" " I ate and ate, all mouth...."
September 27, 2005: "Vermont Barn" " The barn is so weathered it may collapse..."
February 16, 2005: "Letter To An Old Lover" "What kind of quarrel would go on so long..."
February 6, 2005: "A Sentimental Education" "Then I thought all I had to do was close my eyes..."
May 24, 2004: "First Year of My Mother's Dementia" "I opened the door and flicked on the lights..."
April 16, 2004: "To a Friend Unable to Write" "It looks like nothing much, a scene..."
August 2, 2003: "Body in Late Meditation" "An hour from now the river will be grey..."
June 13, 2003: "Driving Through the Valley" "Nothing all that strange about the scene..."
February 18, 2003 (Quarter 2 favorite): "Letter After the Diagnosis" "This is the window I love best. It looks down..."
December 10, 2002: For a Friend Whose Love Has Left "For a week now, the deer has been roaming...."
November 25, 2002: Letter After the Diagnosis "This is the window I love the best. It looks down..."
Books by Lynne Knight:

Other poems on the web by Lynne Knight:
"Seventeen"
"To the Young Man..."
Fourteen poems
"After My Sister's Mastectomy"
Eigth poems
"Centering"
"Water Child"
"Year's End. Year's Beginning."
"Against Order"
"The Twenty-year Workshop"
Five poems
Three poems
Four poems
Six poems
Ten poems
Lynne Knight's Website.
Lynne Knight on Twitter.
About The Southern Review:

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