Today's poem is
"Afterlife with Father"
from The Manhattan Review
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
is author of four books of poetry: Letters from Limbo, Burning of the Three Fires, Curious Conduct, and Placebo Effects, and is coeditor of The Poets' Grimm anthology. In 2019, her play Asylum Song had its premiere at HERE Theater in New York. She is a past winner of the National Poetry Series and the Dana Award for Poetry and has taught at The Frost Place, the Stonecoast MFA Program, and the 92nd St. Y. Her poems have recently appeared in Barrow Street, Gargoyle, Image, Laurel Review, The Manhattan Review, and Plant-Human Quarterly, among others.
Other poems by Jeanne Marie Beaumont in Verse Daily:
December 13, 2021: "Self as Last Call" "Because I'm stranger at night because stragglers..."
February 16 2016: "To Avoid a White Day" "Death settles nothing. Let's get that straight...."
July 7, 2004: "The Plenty" "We two were streams..."
December 4, 2002: Bride "I was long dead before you singed me..."
Books by Jeanne Marie Beaumont:
Other poems on the web by Jeanne Marie Beaumont:
Three poems
"My Demure"
"Afraid So"
Three poems
"Post Mortem"
"Do you like candy, dearie?"
Two poems
"A Lesson"
Jeanne Marie Beaumont's Website.
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December 13, 2021: "Self as Last Call" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
December 10, 2021: "A Secret Passage" by D. Nurkse
December 6, 2021: "A Political Moment" by Barry Wallenstein
February 20, 2021: "Conspiracy Of Starlight" by D. Nurkse
February 18, 2021: "Imagining Georgia O'Keeffe at Her Ghost Ranch" by Judith Wilkinson
February 17, 2021: "Blues in a Turn of Season" by Joannie Stangeland
July 22, 2019: "Lieu de Coiffure Mémoire" Angie Estes
February 24, 2019: "Inmost Circle" D. Nurkse
February 16 2016: "To Avoid a White Day" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
February 14, 2016: "Half-Finished Houses" by D. Nurkse
June 9, 2010: "Starlings" by Roddy Lumsden
June 7, 2010: "Syntax" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
April 23, 2009: "Echoing Canto of the Gleaners (Inferno)" by John Kinsella
April 19, 2009: "Sunday Morning" by Kathryn Simmonds
April 18, 2009: "Isle Au Haut" by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
April 17, 2009: "Sand" by Bruce Bond
March 13, 2008: "Coligny" by D. Nurske
March 11, 2008: "Canto of the Workshop" by John Kinsella
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