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Today's poem is "Hospital"

from Southern Indiana Review

Wayne Miller is the author of six poetry collections, most recently We the Jury (Milkweed, 2021) and The End of Childhood, which is forthcoming from Milkweed in 2025. His awards include the UNT Rilke Prize, two Colorado Book Awards, a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Translation Fellowship, six awards from the Poetry Society of America, and a Fulbright to Northern Ireland. He has co-translated two books from Albanian, most recently Moikom Zeqo's Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015), which was shortlisted for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation. He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel.

Other poems by Wayne Miller in Verse Daily:
April 13, 2020:   "We the Jury" "having heard the evidence against us..."
April 26, 2016:   "Post-Elegy" "You were the vanishing point..."
January 16, 2013:   "Report from the Provinces" "I can say that those stationed here..."
September 27, 2011:   "After the Fever: A Pastoral" "After four months, the fever withdrew into her..."
October 5, 2010:   "Bombing the City" "Some nights it was leaflets..."
June 12, 2008:   "The Rescue" "All our debris above the sunken ship..."
February 18, 2008:   "Street Fight" "What it was that filled me..."
November 10, 2006:   "The Undressing" " See the roofs from the deck..."

Books by Wayne Miller:

Other poems on the web by Wayne Miller:
"Puppet"
Seven poems
Four poems
Three poems
"The New American Century"

Wayne Miller's Website.

About Southern Indiana Review:

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Poetry Editor: Matthew R. Graham
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