April Lindner teaches creative writing at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her collection of poetry, Skin (Texas Tech, 2001), received the Walt McDonald First Book Prize, and her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, The Carolina Quarterly, and many other literary journals.

Other poems by April Lindner on Verse Daily:

August 10, 2003:  "Learning to Float"   "Relax. It's like love. Keep your lips..."

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Poets in this issue: Brad Leithauser, A. E. Stallings, Catherine Tufariello, Amit Majmudar, Anthony Hecht, Richard Wilbur, William Baer, Willis Barnstone, Bruce Berger, Mike Stocks, April Lindner, Jack Granath, Shekhar Aiyar, Jean L. Kreiling, Paul Panish, Susan McLean, Anthony Hecht, William Baer, Paul Lake, Bruce McBirney, Arthur Meryash, Anna Evans, Deborah Warren, Allison Joseph, Jennifer Reeser, Jean Ogier de Gombaul, Robert Daseler, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Anonymous, Lewis Turco, Len Krisak, Horace, Debra Bruce, James Richardson, Eric Blomquist, David Galef, Susan McLean, Martial, Thomas Carper, du Bellay, Karen Jare, Alice Park, Paul Verlaine, Victoria Ford, Don Kimball, Tony Barnstone, D. R. Goodman, Roy Shepard, Robert W. Crawford, David Rosenthal, Thea Gavin, John Pidgeon, Douglas W. Clark, Madrigal, Andrew Frisardi, Torquato Tasso, Alfred Nicol, Michael Dobberstein