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Today's poem is "Keeping the Living Alive"

from The Cincinnati Review

Emily Tian graduated from Yale in 2023 with a B.A. in philosophy. She was born and raised in Maryland and presently lives in Sitka, Alaska.

Other poems on the web by Emily Tian:
"Hunting in November"
"vera wang"
"Motorcycle Poem"
"China Canteen"
"Weighing the Difference"
"On the Bus"

About The Cincinnati Review:

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

Other poems by The Cincinnati Review in Verse Daily:
November 15, 2023:   "Stay" by Jessica Goodfellow
June 19, 2023:   "How to be born in a country that measures your blood in their hands:" by Kinsale Drake
January 14, 2023:   "Paradise" by Brooke Sahni
January 12, 2023:   "Antisocial Social Club" by Michael Chang
January 11, 2023:   "Poem for my teeth. I can't keep / you" by Alejandro Lucero
January 9, 2023:   "I've Got You" by David Kirby
August 30, 2022:   "Self-Portrait with Zoloft and Fruit" by Despy Boutris
August 22, 2022:   "Training" by Jess Smith
January 22, 2022:   "False Indigo" by Peter LaBerge
January 20, 2022:   "Postcard from Old Hollywood Beach" by Maureen Seaton
March 29, 2021:   "What Is Caged Is Also Kept From Us" by Ada Limón
March 11, 2021:   "The Facebook Elegies" by Bruce Bond
March 9, 2021:   "Earth Shovel" by Dan Albergotti
March 8, 2021:   "Lunching with Frank O'Hara on My Deck" by Natalie Louise Tombasco
September 11, 2020:   "The Wall" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
September 10, 2020:   "God is God and the Universe is the Universe" by Leah Umansky
September 9, 2020:   "Unsignified" by Megan Alpert
August 18, 2019:   "Triptych Just before Mass" by C. T. Salazar
August 17, 2019:   "Dear Millennium, on the Extinction of Migrant Doves" by Karen An-Hwei Lee
March 20, 2019:   "My Sparrow" Susan Austin
March 19, 2019:   "When I saw the loblolly pine, " Ada Limón
March 18, 2019:   "Just before, or Right after, the Fall of Rome" Brian Culhane
February 9, 2017:   "Ocean in View" by Philip Pardi
February 8, 2017:   "Vs. Field" by Leah Poole Osowski
February 7, 2017:   "Seeing the famous, our desire for fame" by David O'Connell
October 9, 2014:   "We Real Nerds" by David Hernandez
October 7, 2014:   "The Tornado Wants a Companion" by Catherine Pierce
November 27, 2012:   "Inoperable" by Andrea Cohen
November 26, 2012:   "Rara Avis Decoy" by Lo Kwa Mei-en
November 21, 2012:   "Pittsburgh Plate & Glass Company Lot 63" by Sara J. Grossman
November 19, 2012:   "After Afterlude" by Medbh McGuckian
February 23, 2012:   "Talk-Talk, Ambulance Style" by Nance Van Winckel
July 4, 2011:   "At the Dock at Dusk" by Michael Chitwood
June 29, 2011:   "Wing" by Lisa Williams

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