Verse Daily: Rodney Jones

Today's poem is "Fears"

from Five Points

Rodney Jones's Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005, will be published by Houghton Mifflin in March. A native of Alabama, he teaches at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
Other poems by Rodney Jones in Verse Daily:
December 30, 2002: "Brains" "...I won't have to look it up..."
About Five Points:
Poets in this issue: Edward Hirsch, Mary Oliver, Andrea Hollander Budy, David Baker, Dave Smith, Thomas Lux, Rodney Jones, Richard Tillinghast, Franz Wright, Malena Mörling, Damian Fallon, Robert Olen Butler

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Other poems by Five Points in Verse Daily:
October 26, 2005: "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005: "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005: "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005: "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005: "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004: "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003: "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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