®

Today's poem is "Overture to Boy about to Walk in on Parents"

from Kestrel

John Coleman Bennett is a graduate of the University of Montana's MFA program where he was a poetry editor for CutBank. He is the winner of the Greta Wrolstad Poetry Travel Award and the Boston Mayor's Poetry Prize. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Southern Poetry Review, The Journal, Columbia, Hayden's Ferry Review, Fourteen Hills, The Evansville Review, and many others. A former Writer-in-Residence of the Inn at the Oaks, John has worked for Ploughshares and is currently an editor at Brill Publishing in Boston.

John Coleman Bennett's Website.

Subscription: 4 issues, $40
Kestrel * Department of Humanities * Fairmont State University * 1201 Locust Avenue * Fairmont, West Virginia, 26554
Poetry Editor: Elizabeth Savage
Other poems by Kestrel in Verse Daily:
February 28, 2024:   "Ancestry" by Sarah Elkins
February 27, 2024:   "Poem in Which I Serenade My Lost Friends" by Martha Silano
July 25, 2023:   "It Is Advantageous to Place on the Table a [Hollow Figurine] of Apollo, with Bibliomancy" by Lesley Wheeler
July 20, 2023:   "Edward Hopper's 'Seven A.M.', 1948" by Michael Boccardo
July 18, 2023:   "Visitation" by Eric Pankey
December 1, 2022:   "The Languorous Flipside of Fire" by John Minczeski

May 20, 2022:   "Resentment" by Ace Boggess
May 14, 2022:   "Resentment" by Al Maginnes
May 13, 2022:   "Cultivar from the West" by Angie Macri
November 28, 2021:   "Another Story of Ash" by Rick Campbell
November 27, 2021:   "Ars Poetica II" by Dean Rader
November 26, 2021:   "Wine with Everything Was What I Said" by Laura Sobbott Ross

Home 
Archives  Web Weekly Features  Support Verse Daily  About Verse Daily  FAQs  Submit to Verse Daily 

Copyright © 2002-2025 Verse Daily All Rights Reserved