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Today's poem is "Ma (Or Pa)ternal"

from Northwest Review

Muriel Nelson is the author of a poetry collection, Part Song (Bear Star Press, 1999), and a chapbook, Most Wanted (ByLine Press, 2003). Her poems are available in Beloit Poetry Journal, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and previously, in Northwest Review.

Other poems from Northwest Review in Verse Daily:
February 6, 2005:  "A Sentimental Education" by Lynne Knight
February 5, 2005:  "Panoply" by Kristin Kelly
February 1, 2005:  "Logging Road" by Gigi Marks
June 15, 2004:  "From it and was anew at that time" by Genevieve Kaplan
February 5, 2004:  "Two Sonnets" by John de Stefano
February 3, 2004:  "Tort" by Susanne Kort
October 22, 2003:  "Light of Seville, The Great Palatial House" by Antonio Machado, translated by Willis Barnstone
October 20, 2003:  "Gray" by R. D. King
June 18, 2003:  "Feeding" by Kristen Tracy
June 16, 2003:  "The Son of a Carpenter" by David Wagoner
March 2, 2003:  "Lapis" by Martha Zweig
February 28, 2003:  "Immaculate" by Tina Kelley
February 27, 2003:  "Gavotte" by Susanne Kort
August 14, 2002:  "Last Breath at Dawn" by Katie Ford

About Northwest Review:
Poets in this issue: Nicholas Twemlow, Matthew Shindell, Abraham Smith, John de Stefano, Elizabeth Tibbetts, Muriel Nelson, Susanne Kort, Katherine Lucas Anderson, Warren Slesinger, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andersen, Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Northwest Review * 369 PLC * University of Oregon * Eugene, OR 97403
Poetry Editor: John Witte

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