Today's poem is
"Small Potatoes"
from The Manhattan Review
Erin Wilson
's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Manhattan Review, Prairie Fire, Queen's Quarterly, Literary Review of Canada, Sugar House Review, On the Seawall, Lake Effect, and elsewhere internationally. Her first collection is At Home with Disquiet; her second, Blue (whose title poem won a Pushcart), is about depression, grief, and the transformative power of art. (Both books published by Circling Rivers.) She lives in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty Territory, in Northern Ontario, Canada, the traditional lands of the Anishnawbek, devoted to a handful of things, all of them poetry. Some of her best friends are trees. She refuses to carry a cell phone.
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