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Today's poem is "Paradise"

from The Cincinnati Review

Brooke Sahni is the author of Before I Had the Word (Texas Review Press, 2021), which won the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Maggie Smith. She is also the author of Divining (Orison Books, 2020), which won the Orison Chapbook Prize. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, 32 Poems, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Boulevard, Indiana Review and elsewhere. She lives in the high desert mountains of Arizona where she writes and teaches.

Other poems by Brooke Sahni in Verse Daily:
June 11, 2022:   "Why I ask for you to come in dreams" "because the first time, you were a..."
January 8, 2021:   "To the Girl Who Cried Over Grass" "If this is for her, then this is for all..."

Books by Brooke Sahni:

Other poems on the web by Brooke Sahni:
Two poems
"The Body of the Guru"
"The Sensuous Woman by J"
Two poems

Brooke Sahni's Website.

Brooke Sahni on Twitter.

About The Cincinnati Review:

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The Cincinnati Review * P.O. Box 210069 * Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069
Editor: Don Bogen

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