Molly Peacock, a poet and a creative nonfiction writer, is the author of five books of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems (W.W. Norton and Company in the US and UK and Penguin Canada). Among her other works are How To Read A Poem and Start A Poetry Circle and a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece (both published by Riverhead Penguin/McClelland & Stewart). She is the editor of a collection of creative non-fiction, The Private I: Privacy in a Public World (Graywolf) and the co-editor of Poetry in Motion: One Hundred Poems from the Subways and Buses (W.W. Norton). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, as well as The Best of the Best American Poetry.

Other poems by Molly Peacock in Verse Daily:
January 2, 2003:  "The Hunt" by Molly Peacock
September 3, 2003:  "Thank You" by Molly Peacock
November 14, 2002:  Two poems by Molly Peacock
October 28, 2002:  "Conversation" by Molly Peacock

Other poems from Runes in Verse Daily:
February 25, 2005:  "House Fire" by Rita Dove
October 15, 2002:  "The Dead" by Ellery J. Akers

About Runes:
Poets in this issue: Alcaeus, Roberta Alexander, Susan J. Allspaw, Jan Lee Ande, Charles Atkinson, Tony Barnstone, Anne Ide Barrows, Curtis Bauer, Karen Benke, Rose Black, Chana Bloch, Andrea Hollander Budy, Helen Marie Casey, Elizabeth J. Cooper, Darcy Cummings, Julia de Burgos, Matt Dennison, Albert Flynn DeSilver, Connie Donovan, William Doreski, Rita Dove, Donelle Dresse, Norman Dubie, Ann Fisher-Wirth, CB Follett, Stephen Frech, Robert Funge, Zan Gay, Christine Gelineau, Victoria Givotovsky, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Raphael Jesus Gonzalez, Giles Goodland, Victoria Hallerman, Barbara Hamby, Joseph Hanley, Marie Henry, Eva Hooker, Jane Ellen Ibur, Richard Jackson, Jean Dany Joacim, Richard Jones, Don Judson, Shirley Kaufman, M. A. Keller, Susan Kelly-Dewitt, Philip Kobylarz, Antje Krog, Lance Larsen, Steve Lautermilch, Patrick Lawler, George Looney, Marjorie Maddox, Moria Magneson, Holaday Mason, Beverly Matherne, David R. McCann, Brenda J. Moosy, Caroline Morrell, J. Morris, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Bern Mulvey, Jim Natal, Sean Nevin, Brendan Noonan, Diane O'Hehir, Julia Older, Alberta Lee Orcutt, Kathleen O'Toole, Judith Pacht, Veronica Patterson, Molly Peacock, Linda Tomol Pennisi, Elizabeth Percer, Marge Piercy, Daniel Polikoff, Heather Lea Poole, Alison Powell, Karolyn Redoute, Jack Ridl, Eve Robillard, Pattiann Rogers, C. J. Sage, Luis Omar Salinas, Cathie Sandstrom, Dan Sargent, Terry Scheidt, Penelope Scambly Schott, Prartho Sereno, Matthew Shenoda, Uthara Srinivasan, Dona L. Stein, John Straley, Virgil Suarez, Susan Terris, A.F. Thomas, Liliana Ursu, Davi Walder, Jeff Walt, Daneen Wardrop, Michael Waters, Andrea L. Watson, Gillian Wegener, Christopher Woodman