Today's poem is
"The Frog Priests of Amherst, Virginia"
from Birmingham Poetry Review
Dan Albergotti
is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), and Candy (LSU Press, 2024), as well as the chapbooks Of Air and Earth and Circa MMXX (Unicorn Press, 2019 and 2022). His poems have appeared widely in such journals as 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Southern Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. His work has also been included in The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, and other anthologies. He lives in Tampa, Florida.
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