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Today's poem is "Heartbeat Sound Machine"

from The Shore

Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of five poetry collections, most recently the collaborative chapbook, Dear Question, with L.I. Henley, from Glass Lyre Press. Other titles include Foxlogic, Fireweed (Backwaters Press/Univ. of Nebraska), Little Spells, and How to Live on Bread and Music, which received the James Laughlin Award and the Perugia Press Prize. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared widely in journals, most recently in About Place, Cider Press Review, Orion, Poetry Northwest, Rust & Moth, Sixth Finch, The Shore, Waxwing. She teaches poetry workshops at the University of Redlands in California.

Other poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney in Verse Daily:
July 2 2015:   "Twenty Weeks" "We peeked into the fishbowl galaxy today..."
August 25, 2014:   "Seen from Above" "Steady the freight trains..."

Other poems on the web by Jennifer K. Sweeney:
Two poems
Two poems
Four poems
"Sometimes when I write it feels like I am lifting"
Eigth poems
Two poems
"33 Umbrellas"
"Wolf Lake"
"Call And Response"

Jennifer K. Sweeney's Website.


Poetry Editors: Sarah Brockhaus * Caroline Chavatel * John A. Nieves
Other poems by The Shore in Verse Daily:
January 16, 2025:   "The Bullets Are Thinking About My Body Again" by Michael Okafor
January 14, 2025:   "The Physics of It" by Brian Satrom
October 3, 2024:   "The Last Love Letter of Marie Curie" by Ash Bowen
September 29, 2024:   "Weary of the world, you play Starfield" by Gus Peterson

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