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Today's poem is "The Deep End"

from Sugar House Review

Jim Daniels' latest fiction book, The Luck of the Fall, was published by Michigan State University Press. Recent poetry collections include The Human Engine at Dawn, Wolfson Press, Gun/Shy, Wayne State University Press, and Comment Card, Carnegie Mellon University Press. His first book of nonfiction, Ignorance of Trees, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.

Other poems by Jim Daniels in Verse Daily:
November 6, 2023:   "Sawdust" "I think of Jesus as a carpenter..."
October 20, 2023:   "Elegy for the Exquisite" "Loneliness trumped loveliness..."
February 16, 2021:   "Tone Deaf" "Who can blame the piano player..."
April 5, 2020:   "Gospel" "I saw the Great Blue Heron today..."
January 15, 2018:   "A Brief History of Evolution" "God carved his name in cement...."
November 20, 2017:   "Hair on Fire" "We ironed fall leaves..."
September 20, 2013:   "Poetica No Apologia Arty Kumbaya" "I am not a minister's son or a former pro boxer..."
May 26, 2011:   "David Bowie Esperanto" "A flash of metal trash in a vacant lot...."
May 18, 2011:   "Flight Log" "The prop plane tilts a wing..."
August 4, 2005:   "Historical Accuracy "The way she hummed made me want..."

Other poems on the web by Jim Daniels:
"In This Particular Sunshine"
"Roaming the Galleries"
"The Peaches"
"Going Up and Down"
"Tunnel to Canada"
Two poems
"Hit and Run"
Two poems
"Timbre"
"October"
Four poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Wheels"
Two poems
"Factory Love"
Four poems
Two poems
"Prodigal Son Returns to Warren, Michigan"
"Past My Bedtime Suite"
"Biopsy"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems

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Other poems from Sugar House Review in Verse Daily:
April 10, 2024:   "Dress Rehearsals" by John Gallaher
April 9, 2024:   "Houseboats" by Brian Satrom
April 8, 2024:   "Early Storm" by Melanie McCabe
August 25, 2023:   "Quieting" by John A. Nieves   "Patient sleep ends here in the dry dark...."
August 21, 2023:   "[first tango]" by JD Debris
February 21, 2023:   "Holy" by Kerry James Evans
February 18, 2023:   "noyse" by Betsy Johnson
February 15, 2023:   "From Here on Out" by Suphil Lee Park
March 21, 2022:   "After the Shipwreck" by Deborah Keenan
March 18, 2022:   "Divorce" by Rebecca Morton
March 17, 2022:   "Goodbye Horses" by John Sibley Williams
March 16, 2022:   "I Get Why Dorothy Parker Gave All Her Money to the NAACP" by Michelle Bitting
September 10, 2021:   "Jittery Nocturne" by Kate Northrop
September 8, 2021:   "Meltdown" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" by Martha Silano
August 6, 2021:   "Between Jobs" by Lilian Ha
May 17, 2021:   "House Song with Wonder Woman" by Siew David Hii
May 14, 2021:   "I Can't Stop" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
May 12, 2021:   "The Missing Pages" by Mary Crow
May 10, 2021:   "On Pessimism" by Kerry James Evans
July 24, 2020:   "Melancholy Street" by Rhett Iseman Trull
July 23, 2020:   "Lost" by Susanna Lang
July 22, 2020:   "The Men and the Quiet" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 21, 2020:   "Casual wind" by Shira Dentz
July 20, 2020:   "Terms of Agreement" by Mary Biddinger
November 14, 2019:   "Apocalypse #2" by David Beebe
November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" by David Beebe
November 12, 2019:   "Fire Country" by Rebecca Aronson
February 20, 2019:   "Hier Gibt es Blaugeerren" William Trowbridge
March 4, 2017:   "Ghost Walk After the Resurrection" by Chelsea Dingman
August 11, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Lisa Fay Coutley
August 10, 2016:   "To The Astronaut: On Impact" by Cady Vishniac
August 9, 2016:   "The Betta Fish, Christmas" by Julie Danho
November 1, 2015:   "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself" by Carl Phillips
August 30, 2012:   "from Clangings" by Steve Cramer
December 25, 2011:   "Frost in the Low Areas" by Karen Skolfield
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
November 5, 2011:   "Everyone in Goya's Black Paintings..." by Jeff Whitney
April 20, 2011:   "from Clangings" by Steven Cramer
May 25, 2010:   "I Want You" by Weston Cutter

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