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.
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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..."
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