John Gallaher 's forthcoming collection of poems is My Life in Brutalist Architecture (Four Way Books 2024). He lives in northwest Missouri and is the co-editor of the Laurel Review.

Other poems by John Gallaher in Verse Daily:
March 22, 2023:   "Death Arrives On a Pale Horse" "Someone coughs across the room and the cough travels miles...."
November 17, 2022:   "Family Projects" "It's Day of the Dead Week at the middle school and they're doing projects..."
October 16, 2020:   "For the King of Nothing Left" "There's this version of Hell I learned as a kid..."
September 27, 2016:   "The Museum of the Occupation" (with Kristina Marie Darling) "So, of course, you have to go in...."
February 19, 2015:   "In a Landscape: XIII" "How many people haven't you married, that you thought..."
March 13, 2014:   "In a Landscape: LIV" "Where's the line between what constitutes repetition..."
December 4, 2013:   "In a Landscape: XXXIV" "If things contain their opposites, why bother? That suffices, I guess..."
July 12, 2012:   "In a Landscape: XLI" "If only you could burn memories in a little pile..."
May 17, 2012:   "Revelation in Slow Time" (with G.C. Waldrep) "Here, where no one is in a hurry..."
May 9, 2012:   "Rose as Red" (with G.C. Waldrep) "It's still not good enough. And you were always told..."
December 22, 2011:   "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" "The best idea I ever had..."
September 4, 2011:   "The Bridge at Rest" (with G.C. Waldrep) "The bridge is dreaming again...."
July 6, 2009:   "The House Rhapsody" "For the difficulty of dinner tables..."
May 7, 2009:   "Duly Noted" "Every now and then you've simply got to empty it all out..."
January 23, 2009:   "What We're up Against" "On the way home from the funeral..."
June 8, 2007:   "Earth-tone Anecdote" " They are speaking in the other room..."
May 12, 2007:   "When I Say World I Mean Please" " We begin somewhat after the beginning, in..."
January 4, 2007:   "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" " Two pregnant women are walking together under the portico...."
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" " The children are running across the field, each..."

Books by John Gallaher:

Other poems on the web by John Gallaher:
"Division (Architecture 5)"
Four poems
Four poems
Three poems
"In the Style of Our Adornments"
Two poems
Four poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems

John Gallaher on Twitter.

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November 10, 2022:   "Late Winter" by Maxine Scates
November 8, 2022:   "The Silence of the Marriage" by Charles Rafferty
October 30, 2021:   "Kelpie" by Ashley Keyser
October 27, 2021:   "Practice Room" by Adam Tavel
October 26, 2021:   "Like Picasso's Weeping Woman" by Martha Silano
October 25, 2021:   "Canto XXXVIII (after Buson & Issa)" by Ashley Keyser
November 6, 2020:   "While Night Still Keeps Us" by Carl Phillips
November 5, 2020:   "Poem for the Year Just Past" by David Dodd Lee
November 4, 2020:   "The Year With No Address" by Megan Alpert
November 3, 2020:   "Why to Save the World" by Lisa Fay Coutley
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May 28, 2020:   "Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve" by Andrea Cohen
May 27, 2020:   "Marvelous Things without Number" by Troy Jollimore
May 26, 2020:   "The Blind" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
November 20, 2019:   "December" by David Baker
November 19, 2019:   "Childhood" by Daniel Lawless
November 18, 2019:   "Dear Jolene," by Natasha Sajé
February 19, 2019:   "Storm of the Century" Jill Osier
February 18, 2019:   "Poem for the Woods" Catherine Pierce
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015:   "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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