Today's poem is "What I Wish My Dog Understood"

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February 11, 2023:   "What I Wish My Dog Understood" by Terry L. Kennedy
February 9, 2023:   "Tense Song" by Don Bogen
February 8, 2023:   "Drink Me" by Bonnie Jo Campbell
October 14, 2022:   "Erstwhile Island Gardener" by Lynne Knight
October 4, 2022:   "The Problem With Maps" by Charles Rafferty
July 11, 2022:   "Crown for the Girl Inside" by Lisa Low
July 8, 2022:   "Because Everything Here Is a Brightness" by John Sibley Williams
July 7, 2022:   "Last Day at Brinkwood" by Adam Vines
July 6, 2022:   "Violin" by Gail Martin
July 5, 2022:   "Quetzalcoatl in the City" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
May 11, 2022:   "Milk" by Julia B. Levine
May 10, 2022:   "Invoice" by Danielle Cadena Deulen
December 3, 2021:   "I'm Thinking of a Few Spectacular Ways to Die" by Jeffrey Skinner
December 2, 2021:   "For the Actor Luke Perry, Who Chose to Be Buried in a Biodegradable Funeral Suit Infused with Mushroom Mycelia" by Anna Journey
September 25, 2021:   "Fairy Tale" by Amorak Huey
September 14, 2021:   "An Offense" by Lee Upton
September 13, 2021:   "Not a Bad World, Is It?" by Bruce Bond
February 24, 2021:   "Poem After Watching An Inconvenient Truth With My Students" by Emma Bolden
February 23, 2021:   "Dad Poem" by Joshua Bennett
February 22, 2021:   "Foal" by Maggie Smith
January 15, 2021:   "Presumptive Elegy for Ken" by Paul Guest
January 14, 2021:   "The Mechanical Eves" by Rebecca Morgan Frank
January 13, 2021:   "After the Fire" by Jane Springer
August 28, 2020:   "If/When" by Catherine Pierce
May 7, 2020:   "Invitation to Tender" by Lynne Knight
May 6, 2020:   "So Much for America" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
April 23, 2020:   "Scuttle" by John A. Nieves
November 11, 2019:   "The Horn of Plenty Sits Empty" by Meghan McClure
November 10, 2019:   "Only Autumn" by Barbara Swift Brauer
July 6, 2019:   "Kick in the Jaw" Dan Albergotti
July 5, 2019:   "Refraction at Twilight" Alice Friman
July 4, 2019:   "The Father of Our Country" Kim Roberts
February 16, 2019:   "Here, now, gone" Bob Hicok
August 24, 2017:   Two poems by Stephen Gibson
August 22, 2017:   "Virgule" by Michael McFee
August 21, 2017:   "Where Another Lets Go" by Paul Hunter
October 28, 2015:   "Driving to Work" by A. M. Brandt
July 25, 2014:   "To the Stars through Difficulties" by Christina Olson
May 12, 2014:   "The life-and-death world of carpentry" by Bob Hicok
May 6, 2014:   "Some Math, Some Words" by Bob Hicok
May 4, 2014:   "Affirmative Action Babies" by Lynne Knight
November 25, 2013:   "Confession" by Carrie Shipers
November 24, 2013:   "Penillion of Riding Past the Radio Astronomy Observatory Amid Hedges and Fields" by John Kinsella
November 23, 2013:   "Under the Sun" by Chard deNiord
November 22, 2013:   "Alligators" by Kevin Prufer
January 11, 2013:   "Mothering" by Michael McCarthy
January 9, 2013:   "Zombie Preparedness Plan" by Mary Jo Firth Gillett
January 8, 2013:   "feeder" by Beth Bachmann
November 9, 2012:   "Straw Poll" by Michael McFee
November 8, 2012:   "Somehow, We Are a We" by Kimberly Grey
September 24, 2012:   "Daily" by John A. Nieves
September 21, 2012:   "Why Our Mothers Panic" by Sarah Kain Gutowski
February 19, 2012:   "Elegy for a Game" by Mary Ruefle
February 16, 2012:   "Words, what is the word, matter" by Bob Hicok
January 26, 2012:   "Thames Music" by William Wenthe
September 23, 2011:   "Questions about the Wife" by Rebecca Hazelton
September 22, 2011:   "Coxwain" by Nance Van Winckel
November 13, 2010:   "The Former Pirate on His Way Back to Lisbon" by Weston Cutter
May 27, 2010:   "Dead Telegram to a Dead Poet" by Bruce Cohen
March 2, 2010:   "Teaching 'The Red Wheelbarrow' the Thirtieth Time" by Wendy Barker
January 9, 2010:   "Elegy as Spot's Lift-the-Flap Book" by Victoria Chang
January 8, 2010:   "An Algebra of Fifty" by Catherine Abbey Hodges
September 12, 2009:   "I Was Thinking of Beauty" by Sydney Lea
September 11, 2009:   "Cosmonauts" by Rhett Iseman Trull
June 5, 2009:   "Teaching Mrs. Dalloway I'm Thinking" by Weston Cutter
June 3, 2009:   "Rain on the Roof" by Beverley Bie Brahic
June 2, 2009:   "Questions about Birds" by Billy Collins
February 20, 2009:   "Holidays and Sundays" by David Bottoms
November 21, 2008:   "Approaching Thunder" by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
November 20, 2008:   "Patterns" by Theodore Worozbyt
August 29, 2008:   "A Convincing Story" by Beth Bretl
August 28, 2008:   "Siren Song for Late September" by Alice Friman
August 27, 2008:   "Scavengers" by Fleda Brown
August 26, 2008:   "Settle" by Chanda Feldman
May 11, 2008:   "Midden" by Brendan Galvin
February 3, 2008:   "Hordes of Indigent Psychologist" by Scott Coffel
January 29, 2008:   "Runaway Bride" by Allison Seay
November 10, 2007:   "Columba livia" by Sandra Meek
November 9, 2007:   "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker
November 6, 2007:   "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok
August 5, 2007:   "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser
August 2, 2007:   "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah
June 6, 2007:   "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
June 5, 2007:   "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe
February 9, 2007:   "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin
September 15, 2006:   "God of The" by Garrett Doherty
September 14, 2006:   "One Morning a Rose Blooms" by Richard Tillinghast
September 13, 2006:   "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006:   "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006:   "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006:   "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006:   "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006:   "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004:  "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004:  "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004:  "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004:  "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004:  "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004:  "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004:  "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004:  "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004:  "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004:  "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004:  "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003:  "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
August 19, 2003:  "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003:  "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003:  "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
June 5, 2003:  "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003:  "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
May 1, 2003:  "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003:  "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002:  "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002:  Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002:  "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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