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Today's poem is "The War"

from The Manhattan Review

Suzanne Cleary's most recent books are Crude Angel (BkMk Press 2018) and Beauty Mark (BkMk 2013), which won the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, the Nassar Poetry Prize, and the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, her other honors include a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. Her poems appear in anthologies including Best American Poetry, and in journals including Poetry London, The Atlantic, and Southern Review. She teaches as Core Faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing Program of Converse University.

Other poems by Suzanne Cleary in Verse Daily:
March 31, 2019:   "I Have Never Slept with an Animal" "I have never slept with an animal, so it is..."
May 9, 2014:   "Ring" "Rose gold engraved with a grain of wheat..."

Other poems on the web by Suzanne Cleary:
"The Music"
Three poems
Three poems
Six poems

Suzanne Cleary's Website.

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