Margot Schilpp's books of poetry are The World's Last Night (2001) and Laws of My Nature (2005), both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her poems have appeared most recently in Hotel Amerika and The Cincinnati Review.

Other poems by Margot Schilpp in Verse Daily:
January 25, 2005:  "Taking Leave of My Senses" "I want that, I think, when I see the slender body..."
January 13, 2005:  "What Narrative Is For" "How fine the mind that can calculate..."
May 25, 2003:  "Vanishing Point"  "The way an island holds back..."
May 5, 2003:  "Manifesto"  "I know that dying is how we escape..."
July 4, 2002:  "Laws of My Nature"  "Obviously, the roosters are in league / with morning..."

About The American Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Kelli Russell Agodon, Maureen Alsop, Kristin Berger, E.G. Burrows, Mary Crow, Mary Christine Delea, Jehanne Dubrow, Ruth Moon Kempher, John P. Kristofco, Lynne Knight, Sari Krosinsky, M. B. McLatchey, Andrew H. Oerke, Alison Pelegrin, Jennifer Reeser, Susan Rich, C. J. Sage, Margot Schilpp, Mike White