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Today's poem is "Vivisection"

from Bennington Review

Jennifer Militello is the author of The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021), called "emotionally resonant" by Publishers Weekly and "full of intimate insights" by The Poetry Foundation, and the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize (Dzanc Books, 2019), as well as four previous collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and POETRY. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.

Other poems by Jennifer Militello in Verse Daily:
September 2, 2021:   "Erotomania" "Do not asphyxiate the bitch in me...."
September 22, 2020:   "Love in the Post-God Age" "Summer has vanished...."
July 26, 2013:   "Afterburn" "Things too thin inhabit our dreams and we take on..."
November 5, 2008:   "World Hypothesis" "The geese again...."
April 19, 2005:  "Answering Fear as if It Were a Question" ""In a unit of time, in a violence of sleep..."
March 14, 2005:  "The Museum of Being Born" ""I remember now. Something was chasing..."

Books by Jennifer Militello:

Other poems on the web by Jennifer Militello:
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Seven poems
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
Five poems

Jennifer Militello's Website.

Jennifer Militello on Twitter.

About Bennington Review:

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August 10, 2022:   "Whitetail in the Rain Moving About" by Melissa Ginsburg
August 9, 2022:   "Driving Through Mississippi After the Capitol Hill Riot" by January Gill O'Neil
August 8, 2022:   "Feast with a Mouthful of Bees" by Alison Pelegrin
April 25, 2022:   "When the still breathing watch the stillborn" by Stella Wong
December 15, 2021:   "For the Suburban Dead" by Malachi Black
December 14, 2021:   "Death Pastoral" by Virginia Konchan
December 9, 2021:   "Heaven and It's Orange Flowers" by Mary Biddinger
April 4, 2021:   "I Was Sorrow" by Anne Marie Rooney
April 3, 2021:   "That Life" by Troy Jollimore
April 2, 2021:   "The Centaur" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
March 31, 2021:   "When You're a Star, They Let You Do It" by Emma Bolden
March 30, 2021:   "Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals" by Catherine Pierce
March 28, 2020:   "Advent Poem" by Peter Cooley
March 27, 2020:   "Orange" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 25, 2020:   "Checkpoint" by David Baker
March 24, 2020:   "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" by Dean Rader
March 27, 2019:   Of Course" Lisa Fay Coutley
March 25, 2019:   "Shovel" Jericho Brown
August 7, 2017:   "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel &
August 3, 2017:   "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi
August 2, 2017:   "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
August 1, 2017:   "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson

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