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Today's poem is "When We Invented Gunpowder, We Were Trying to Invent the Elixir of Life"

from Shō Poetry Journal

Dorsey Craft is the author of A Brief History of Accidental Inventions (Texas Review Press, forthcoming 2026) and Plunder (Bauhan Publishing, 2020). Her poems have appeared recently in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, Sixth Finch, and elsewhere. She serves as Assistant Poetry Editor at Agni and teaches at the University of North Florida. She is also the co-organizer of Dreamboat Poetry Series in Jacksonville, FL.

Other poems on the web by Dorsey Craft:
Six poems
Four poems
"Speaking to My Lover from Beyond the Grave"
"Instructions on Breastfeeding"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
"For New Year's Eve"
"When You Are Six"
"For My Sister in Inpatient Care"
"Taking Stock, Seven Months Postpartum"
"NICU"

Dorsey Craft's Website.

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March 17, 2024:   "How to Cook a Wolf" by Nathan Xavier Osorio
March 15, 2024:   "How to Eat Like a King" by Jane Zwart
March 11, 2024:   "Deer Woman" by Bunkong Tuon
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