Chiyuma Elliott is Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarly work focuses on poetry and the Harlem Renaissance. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph The Rural Harlem Renaissance and four books of poetry, most recently Blue in Green (2021). She has received fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, Cave Canem, the Stegner program at Stanford, and the Vermont Studio Center. Chiyuma is co-PI of the African American Intellectual Traditions Initiative (aaiti.berkeley.edu) and co-host of the podcast Old-School, which celebrates the intersections of African American studies and the classics.

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Poetry Editors: Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen, Camille T. Dungy & Matthew Cooperman

All other poems from Colorado Review that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 19, 2023:   "Turnover" by Gale Marie Thompson
April 22, 2023:   "Words from a Painting by Giorgio di Chirico" by Angela Ball
April 20, 2023:   "The Crows" by Amie Whittemore
October 23, 2022:   "Great Plains" by C. Henry Smith
October 22, 2022:   "Truck Stop Preacher" by Sage Ravenwood
October 19, 2022:   "With Arrows Through Their Necks" by Andrew Hemmert
October 18, 2022:   "Dashing" by Martha Silano
October 17, 2022:   "Snow Prayer" by Jeffrey Bean
May 3, 2022:   "Antimatter" by Stella Wong
May 2, 2022:   "Snow Prayer" by Emily Wolahan
April 29, 2022:   "Lost Worlds" by James Earp
April 27, 2022:   "Cuomo's Important Failures" by Kathleen Winter
April 5, 2022:   "The Hurricane Doesn't Roar in Pentameter" by Joshua Bennett
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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