Martha Silano has authored five poetry collections, including Gravity Assist, Reckless Lovely, and The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, all from Saturnalia Books. A co-author of The Daily Poet: Day-by-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice, her poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, The Missouri Review, and American Poetry Review, and in many print anthologies, including the Best American Poetry series. Awards include North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize and The Cincinnati Review's Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize.

Other poems by Martha Silano in Verse Daily:
June 17, 2023:   "When We Say It's the Little Things" "we really do mean it, a friend announcing, at the end..."
May 16, 2023:   "Love" "I hate your kneecaps floating free..."
October 18, 2022:   "Dashing" "What's funny is my son calling me..."
October 26, 2021:   "Like Picasso's Weeping Woman" "my face is both straight-on and sideways...."
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" "Totally giddy and grinning as I recall the fox we happened upon..."
May 19, 2021:   "Soul Reckoning" "I'm skimming through a book called Spook..."
March 8, 2021:   "Lunching with Frank O'Hara on My Deck" "The Russian sage is sprouting leaves from a brown stem..."
April 4, 2020:   "The hands of all my mistakes" "are clapping wildly like aspens in a squall. The blackbird is flying away..."
May 28, 2019:   "Bumblebees Are Made of Ash" "The day is a dragonfly hovering in the Timothy...."
March 19, 2019:   "When I saw the loblolly pine, " "its furrowed bark, I knew I was close..."
November 25, 2014:   "Gerbils in Space" "and geckos. Fruit flies, kernels of com...."
May 16, 2014:   "The Untied States of America" "America, with your water-tower towns, your irrigation sprinklers..."
April 10, 2006:   "Gravitas" " A quarter cow in a cardboard box..."

Other poems on the web by Martha Silano:
"Poem Written One-Hundred Yards from My Mother's Grave"
"Oh, Thumbelina"
"Why I'd Make a Great Chemist"
"That Summer"
"Time and Distance"
"I Am Writing A Letter"
"But it was all right to have believed in something,"
Two poems
"When I began to dig"
Two poems
Two poems
Five poems
"Regrets Only, Please"
"When I began to dig"
"At the Funeral of the Grammar Handbook"
Two poems
"Willing & Able"
"Despite Nagging Malfunctions"
Two poems
"Proverbs"
"I Work at the Barbie Factory"
Five poems
Two poems
"Poem for the New Year"

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Poetry Editor: Elizabeth Savage
Other poems by Kestrel in Verse Daily:
July 25, 2023:   "It Is Advantageous to Place on the Table a [Hollow Figurine] of Apollo, with Bibliomancy" by Lesley Wheeler
July 20, 2023:   "Edward Hopper's 'Seven A.M.', 1948" by Michael Boccardo
July 18, 2023:   "Visitation" by Eric Pankey
December 1, 2022:   "The Languorous Flipside of Fire" by John Minczeski

May 20, 2022:   "Resentment" by Ace Boggess
May 14, 2022:   "Resentment" by Al Maginnes
May 13, 2022:   "Cultivar from the West" by Angie Macri
November 28, 2021:   "Another Story of Ash" by Rick Campbell
November 27, 2021:   "Ars Poetica II" by Dean Rader
November 26, 2021:   "Wine with Everything Was What I Said" by Laura Sobbott Ross

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