Martha Silano's fifth collection, Gravity Assist, appeared from Saturnalia Books in 2019. Previous collections include What the Truth Tastes Like (Two Sylvias Press), The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception (chosen by Campbell McGrath as the winner Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize), and Blue Positive (Steel Toe Books). She is also co-author, with Kelli Russell Agodon, of The Daily Poet: Day-by-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice. Martha's poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and the Best American Poetry series, among others. She's been a resident at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Yaddo, among others. Martha teaches at Bellevue College

Other poems by Martha Silano in Verse Daily:
October 18, 2022:   "Dashing" "What's funny is my son calling me..."
October 26, 2021:   "Like Picasso's Weeping Woman" "my face is both straight-on and sideways...."
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" "Totally giddy and grinning as I recall the fox we happened upon..."
May 19, 2021:   "Soul Reckoning" "I'm skimming through a book called Spook..."
March 8, 2021:   "Lunching with Frank O'Hara on My Deck" "The Russian sage is sprouting leaves from a brown stem..."
April 4, 2020:   "The hands of all my mistakes" "are clapping wildly like aspens in a squall. The blackbird is flying away..."
May 28, 2019:   "Bumblebees Are Made of Ash" "The day is a dragonfly hovering in the Timothy...."
March 19, 2019:   "When I saw the loblolly pine, " "its furrowed bark, I knew I was close..."
November 25, 2014:   "Gerbils in Space" "and geckos. Fruit flies, kernels of com...."
May 16, 2014:   "The Untied States of America" "America, with your water-tower towns, your irrigation sprinklers..."
April 10, 2006:   "Gravitas" " A quarter cow in a cardboard box..."

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Other poems on the web by Martha Silano:
"Poem Written One-Hundred Yards from My Mother's Grave"
"Oh, Thumbelina"
"Why I'd Make a Great Chemist"
"That Summer"
"Time and Distance"
"I Am Writing A Letter"
"But it was all right to have believed in something,"
Two poems
"When I began to dig"
Two poems
Two poems
Five poems
"Regrets Only, Please"
"When I began to dig"
"At the Funeral of the Grammar Handbook"
Two poems
"Willing & Able"
"Despite Nagging Malfunctions"
Two poems
"Proverbs"
"I Work at the Barbie Factory"
Five poems
Two poems
"Poem for the New Year"

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