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Today's poem is "Hysterical"

from ONE ART: a journal of poetry

Cindy King is the author of a book-length poetry collection, Zoonotic (2022), and two poetry chapbooks, Easy Street (2021) and Lesser Birds of Paradise (2022). Her latest poetry manuscript won the C&R Poetry Book Award and will be published in 2024. Her chapbook, OhioChic, will be released by Galileo Press in 2024. Cindy's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, Callaloo, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, American Literary Review, Gettysburg Review, River Styx, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She recently served as a featured Festival Poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. She has also received fellowships and scholarships from Tin House, the Sewanee Writers' Workshop, the Fine Arts Work Center, Colgate University, and other organizations. Cindy was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up swimming in the shadows of the hyperboloid cooling towers on the shores of Lake Erie. She currently lives in Utah, where she is an associate professor of creative writing at Utah Tech University and editor of The Southern Quill and Route 7 Review. She also serves as an editorial assistant for both Seneca Review and TriQuarterly.

Other poems by Cindy King in Verse Daily:
June 3, 2020:   "Matrons of the Ward" "A widow is sentenced up to fifteen years..."
January 15, 2020:   "Who's With Me" "good morning welcome thank you..."

Other poems on the web by Cindy King:
Five poems
"Noumenon"
"When Your Mother Asks if You're Seeing Anyone and No Longer Means a Therapist"
"Misanthrope"
"Fault"
"Different Lyrics, Same Melody"
"Study in White"


Editor: Mark Danowski
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