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Today's poem is "The Sign Said"

from Conduit

Tanya Larkin lives in Cambridge, MA. She is the Managing Editor of Transition Magazine and teaches poetry at the SMFA/Tufts. She saw this sign on a billboard in West Roxbury, MA. The sign came down the same day it went up. About this poem, her mother says, "I left the country, so no one could throw me a stupid, American party." "The Sign Said" takes its title and entrance from Ashley Capps's poem in her book Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields. Ashley's home and car were greatly damaged by Hurricane Helene. If you feel so moved to help her, please contribute to this Go Fund Me.

Other poems by Tanya Larkin in Verse Daily:
April 4, 2012:   "Consort" "I am the disease that confirms..."
April 25, 2008:   "Baby Epic" "Gird your mysterious loins, I am trying to think..."

Other poems on the web by Tanya Larkin:
"Serenissima"
"Les Tendres Plaintes"

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