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Today's poem is "I am Not a Robot"

from Bennington Review

Lisa Allen Ortiz's second poetry collection Stem was published by Lost Horse Press in 2022 and The Blinding Star, Selected Poems of Blanca Varela, a collaboratively translated work by Ortiz and Sara Danielle Rivera, won the 2022 Poetry in Translation prize at the Northern California Book Awards.

Other poems by Lisa Allen Ortiz in Verse Daily:
July 20, 2022:   "Grasp" "Ingrid's husband Jon who is a scientist..."
April 22, 2019:   "Later, I Learned to Speak Without a Tongue." "But first I wrote backwards...."
December 20, 2016:   "Ursa Major" "The bears again..."
January 11, 2014:   "Acre" "If we had one, I said, we could grow lettuce and peas..."
October 18, 2013:   "The Ventriloquist's Heart" "At dinner I lean in close...."
October 31, 2009:   "The Tortoise Survives the Fire" "He's at my friend's house now...."

Books by Lisa Allen Ortiz:

Other poems on the web by Lisa Allen Ortiz:
Three poems
"Algorithm"
Three poems
"Patois"
"Why We're Going to Church"
Two poems

Lisa Allen Ortiz's Website.

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Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
August 11, 2022:   "Ohio Mud" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
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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