Today's poem is
"Baptism | Before I Grew Up, There Was a War"
from Iron Horse Literary Review
Remi Recchia
, PhD, is a trans poet and essayist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a book editor and also works as a technical editor. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Remi's work has appeared in World Literature Today, Best New Poets 2021, and Juked, among others. Books and chapbooks include Quicksand/Stargazing (Cooper Dillon Books, 2021); Sober (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022); From Gold, Ghosts: Alchemy Erasures (Gasher Press, 2023); and Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us (Sundress Publications, forthcoming). Remi has been a Tin House Scholar and Thomas Lux Scholar. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University.
Books by Remi Recchia:
Other poems on the web by Remi Recchia:
"Amuse-Bouche"
Two poems
"It's Easy"
"The Lights"
Two poems
Two poems
"Ninety Days"
"When we don't invite your older brother to the wedding & your mother wants to know why,"
"I'm Sandcastled Sometimes, But Mostly Just Hungover"
"Things I Can't Tell My Landlord"
"On Leaving Bowling Green, Ohio"
"Prosopagnosia Feels Like Looking Through a Tunnel and Landing in a Graveyard"
"Struck by the Beauty of Someplace I Don't Belong, I Slow Down & Drive the Speed Limit"
Two poems
"Gifts"
Remi Recchia's Website.
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