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Today's poem is "Variations on Justice's Variations on a Text by Vallejo (with a Little Stephen Crane)"

from Sugar House Review

Stephen Kampa is the author of four poetry collections: Cracks in the Invisible (2011), Bachelor Pad (2014), Articulate as Rain (2018), and World Too Loud to Hear (2023). His work has appeared in The Yale Review, Cincinnati Review, Southwest Review, Hopkins Review, Poetry Northwest, Subtropics, and Smartish Pace. He was also included in The Best American Poetry 2018 and Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America's Poets Respond to the Pandemic (2020). During the spring of 2021, he was the writer in residence at the Amy Clampitt House. He teaches at Flagler College and is currently the poetry editor of Able Muse.

Other poems by Stephen Kampa in Verse Daily:
August 7, 2009:   "The Reclamation of Paradise" "The butterflies' abrupt communique..."

Other poems on the web by Stephen Kampa:
"Except, inexplicably, the last"
"Someone Else's Gift"
"To Keep the Day"
"You Just Have to Follow It"
Two poems
"Commences with the power"

Stephen Kampa's Website.

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October 18, 2024:   "Variations on Justice's Variations on a Text by Vallejo (with a Little Stephen Crane)" by Jim Daniels
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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