Today's poem is
"From the List of My Fears"
from 32 Poems
Robert Wood Lynn
Lynn is a poet from Virginia. He is the author of the collection Mothman Apologia (Yale University Press, 2022) and the chapbook How to Maintain Eye Contact (Button Poetry, 2023). His work has been recognized with the Yale Younger Poets prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Merrill House, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and other institutions. His poems have been featured or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Southern Review and other publications. He lives in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
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