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Today's poem is "As for Penelope—"

from Birmingham Poetry Review

Jehanne Dubrow is the author of nine poetry collections and three books of nonfiction, including most recently Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity (University of New Mexico Press, 2023). Her next book of poems, Civilians, will be published by Louisiana State University Press in 2025. Her writing has appeared in New England Review, Southern Review, and Ploughshares. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.

Other poems by Jehanne Dubrow in Verse Daily:
September 5, 2022:   "Aubade" "I have made book of your body, read..."
July 15, 2021:   "The Last Time You Are Close to Your Body" "you are at the table where family dinners have to happen...."
June 29, 2022:   "Aspen" "This was the first story he told..."
March 1, 2022:   "Brothers" "Grown now, they have a way of getting close..."
April 21, 2021:   "Great Blue Heron" "The bay is still for now..."
May 13, 2019:   "Numbness is another way" "Numbness is another way..."
October 12, 2017:   "Runaway Military Surveillance Blimp Drifts from Maryland to Pennsylvania" "The aerostat looks less like a balloon..."
June 12, 2017:   "Wireless Doorbell" "What makes it chime when no one's waiting there?..."
May 21, 2015:   "Garment Industry" "My mother lifts a seam ripper, its miniature..."
April 16, 2015:   "Casualty Notificaton" "Switch channels, stop..."
January 23, 2013:   "Malamute" "Someone brought winter to the tropics. At first..."
December 6, 2012:   "Puberty, as the Character of Gordon Gekko" "Greed was good, and I..."
July 15, 2010:   "Recess" "The children are playing at murder again...."
November 29, 2009:   "[my mind grew quiet]" "My mind grew quiet..."

Other poems on the web by Jehanne Dubrow:
"Augury"
Three poems
Four poems
Two poems
Four poems
"With Fever Comes Rest"
"Syllabus for the Dark Ahead"
"The Long Deployment"
"The Valhalla Machine"
"Dinner with Kathleen Battle"
"Scheherazade"
Four poems
"Nowa Huta"
"Fancy"
Seven poems
"Vinegar Aphrodisiac"
"A Small History of Shopping"
Two poems
"Fragment From a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet"
"Fragment From A Nonexistent Yiddish Poet #34"
"Shulamith Reads The White Hotel"
Two poems
"Fragment From A Nonexistent Yiddish Poet Ida Lewin (1906-1938)"
"Cinderella"
Three poems
Two poems
"Lot?s Wife in Eastern Europe"
Three poems
"Fragments from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet"
"Fragments from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet"
"Wild Mushrooms"
"The Amber Brooch"

Jehanne Dubrow's Website.

Jehanne Dubrow on Twitter.

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September 5, 2023:   "Bourbon, Cigarettes, Van Morrison" by John Hoppenthaler
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July 2, 2022:   "After, the rain" by Terry L. Kennedy
July 1, 2022:   "Against 'The Dover Bitch'" by Jenny Molberg
June 29, 2022:   "Aspen" by Jehanne Dubrow
July 26, 2021:   "Late Night Poem" by Hailey Leithauser
July 23, 2021:   "Late Night Poem" by A.E. Stallings
September 26, 2019:   "Made Bed" by Beth Gylys <
September 25, 2019:   "The Unexploded Ordnance Bin" by Rebecca Foust br>September 24, 2019:   "Fabric" by Sidney Wade
September 23, 2019:   "Kissing Meditation" by Al Maginnes
July 18, 2016:   "Poltergeists" by George David Clark
July 12, 2016:   "Pastoral" by Rose McLarney
December 4, 2015:   "Sidewalks" by Allison Joseph
December 3, 2015:   "Rings" by Hailey Leithauser
December 2, 2015:   "Lambing" by Luke Hollis
March 7, 2012:   "Parties" by Michael Milburn
March 6, 2012:   "Kings Highway" by Robert W. Hill
March 24, 2011:   "Prairie" by Beth Gylys
March 22, 2011:   "Ficus" by Gregory Fraser
July 2, 2006:   "Biochemically Speaking, People Are Close Relatives of Soy" by Charles Harper Webb

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