Melissa Kwasny is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Cloud Path (Milkweed Editions 2024), as well as a collection of essays Earth Recitals: Essays on Image and Vision. She is a former Montana Poet Laureate, a position she shared with M.L. Smoker.

Other poems by Melissa Kwasny in Verse Daily:
September 24, 2021:   "An Ascetic Impulse Surfaces, Tears Leaves from Their Stems" "The rains began last night, clearing the air for snow..."
June 18 2015:   "Pictograph: Falling Buffalo" "Finger-pads pawed the crusted stone..."

Other poems on the web by Melissa Kwasny:
Two poems
"WebPoem"
Four poems
Two poems
Three poems

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Poetry Editors: Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen, Camille T. Dungy & Matthew Cooperman

All other poems from Colorado Review that have appeared on Verse Daily:
December 25, 2023:   ">Visiting a Friend on a Snowy Night" by Chengru He
December 19, 2023:   "Peel the Black Walnut Bark Like Small Fists in Our Fists" by Christopher Citro
April 22, 2023:   "Words from a Painting by Giorgio di Chirico" by Angela Ball
April 20, 2023:   "The Crows" by Amie Whittemore
October 23, 2022:   "Great Plains" by C. Henry Smith
October 22, 2022:   "Truck Stop Preacher" by Sage Ravenwood
October 19, 2022:   "With Arrows Through Their Necks" by Andrew Hemmert
October 18, 2022:   "Dashing" by Martha Silano
October 17, 2022:   "Snow Prayer" by Jeffrey Bean
May 3, 2022:   "Antimatter" by Stella Wong
May 2, 2022:   "Snow Prayer" by Emily Wolahan
April 29, 2022:   "Lost Worlds" by James Earp
April 27, 2022:   "Cuomo's Important Failures" by Kathleen Winter
April 5, 2022:   "The Hurricane Doesn't Roar in Pentameter" by Joshua Bennett
January 18, 2021:   "A Nation of Two" by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
January 17, 2020:   "Aubade With Myself Leaving Myself Behind" by Anne Barngrover
January 16, 2020:   "Self-Portrait as Lake" by Despy Boutris
August 28, 2020:   "If/When" by Catherine Pierce
August 27, 2020:   "Riddle, Oregon" by Ryler Dustin
August 26, 2020:   "Considering The Options" by Gary McDowell
August 25, 2020:   "Being Seen" by Tara Bray
June 29, 2020:   "Desire Path" by Louise Mathias
June 28, 2020:   "Peter" by Kazim Ali
June 26, 2020:   "The coreopsis is crushed in an oval where the deer must have slept," by Angie Macri
December 19, 2019:   "Dogwood (Two)" by Lorna Dee Cervantes
December 18, 2019:   "Recr483y 1: Spring Cleaning" by Dorine Jennette
December 17, 2019:   "Ventriloquist" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
December 16, 2019:   "Yah" by Bruce Bond
April 24, 2019:   "Nuthatches" Laura Paul Watson
April 23, 2019:   "Confiteor" Brianna Noll
April 22, 2019:   "Later, I Learned to Speak Without a Tongue." Lisa Allen Ortiz
March 15, 2019:   "Flesh Memory" Caroline Crew
March 13, 2019:   "Gaslight" E. G. Cunningham
March 12, 2019:   "As Weapons Need Murder" Melissa Ginsburg
June 9, 2015:   "Interval" by William Stobb
June 8 2015:   "Thou" by Joshua McKinney
January 19, 2015:   "A Month of Sundays" by Terrence Chiusano
January 13, 2015:   "Annunciation" by Ronnie Yates
July 7, 2014:   "Backward-Spreading Brightness" by Christopher Kondrich
March 5, 2014:   "In the Dumps" by Heather Christle
March 4, 2014:   "Leaving Labor and Delivery" by Erin Rodoni
March 3, 2014:   "Proof" by Ashley Seitz Kramer
May 16, 2013:   "Words Against the Walls of the City" by Lorna Dee Cervantes
April 5, 2013:   "Valediction Lessons: Flora" by Lorna Dee Cervantes
March 4, 2013:   "Another Pastoral A" by Aaron McCollough
November 2, 2012:   "Just Vanilla" "She was a pistol...."
October 31, 2012:   "After the Feast at Year's End" by Brenda Hillman
October 30, 2012:   "Une Lettre de la Mer de Glace" by Jo Ann Clark
July 17, 2012:   "Sleep Song" "I want to remember the picture..."
July 16, 2012:   "When a Man and a Woman Are Alone Together, the Third Person Present Is Satan" by Claire Sylvester Smith
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
December 22, 2011:   "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" by John Gallaher
September 28, 2011:   "Portrayal, X-Ray" by Cori A. Winrock
September 26, 2011:   "The Strategy" by Kascha Semonovitch
June 23, 2011:   "The Commendation" by Dean Young
August 21, 2010:   "Conditionals" by Ryan Flaherty
December 23, 2009:   "Untitled" by Ryan Flaherty (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)
August 29, 2009:   "Repititions" by Jennifer Moxley
April 6, 2009:   "The People on the Bus" by Stephen Burt
April 4, 2009:   "A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order" by Jack Ridl
April 2, 2009:   "Iridescent, One Might Say" by Mary Ann Samyn
March 31, 2009:   "Secret Sea" by Nathan Parker

March 30, 2009:   "Hare" by Joseph Campana
January 6, 2009:   "Ontology and the Platypus" by Kathy Fagan
August 8, 2008:   "Smithereens" by L. S. Klatt
August 6, 2008:   "Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside" by John Isles
April 18, 2008:   "Bends" by Ron Paul Salutsky
April 15, 2008:   "Schrödinger Reincarnated" by Dana Curtis
January 4, 2008:   "You'll See a Sailboat" by Jaswinder Bolina
January 2, 2008:   "Furlough" by Leslie Williams
December 23, 2007:   "Eye Contact" by Craig Morgan Teicher
December 17, 2007:   "In a Better World Than This" by James Cushing
November 19, 2007:   "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 22, 2007:   "Fighting" by Dana Goodyear
November 21, 2007:   "Flicker" by Joanna Klink
November 20, 2007:   "Poem Beside Itself" by Graham Foust
November 19, 2007:   "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 8, 2007:   "If You Should Care For Me" by Lacy Schutz
October 29, 2007:   "Would That We Had" by DLacy Schutz

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