Verse Daily: Stephen Massimilla

Today's poem is "Thinks Herself Precious at a Price"

from Quarterly West

Stephen Massimilla's book Forty Floors From Yesterday (Bordighera Press, 2002) won the Sonia Raiziss-Giop Prize. He also received the Grolier Poetry Prize, a Van Rensselaer Prize, and a nomination for a Pushcart Prize. Massimilla has new poems forthcoming in The Cream City Review, The Bellingham Review, Confrontation, Epoch, and Provincetown Arts. He teaches world literature at Columbia University and Barnard College.

Other poems by Stephen Massimilla in Verse Daily:
March 16, 2003: "Two in Tropic Twilight" "If I once quickened among the whips..."
About Quarterly West:
Poets in this issue: Philip White, Jennifer Chapis, Brian Barker, Christopher Matthews, Charles Jensen, K. Keener, Richard Garcia, Todd Davis, Karen Holmberg, Jim Daniels, Anthony Robinson, Allison Titus, Suzanne Keen, Jeffrey Bean, Stephen Massimilla, Michael Hardin

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Poetry Editor: Mike White & Kathryn Cowles

Other poems by Quarterly West in Verse Daily:
September 23, 2005: "Washington D.C." Christopher Matthews
September 20, 2005: "Summer in Tempe" Jennifer Chapis
May 6, 2005: "The Shapes Sadness Can Take" Lance Larsen
May 4, 2005: "Once a Man" Dionisio D. Martínez
October 5, 2004: "Very" by Kurt S. Olsson
October 4, 2004: "Tekmerion" by David Axelrod
April 20, 2004: from Threnody by Heidi Blitch
April 13, 2004: "Salvages" by Robyn Sarah
August 28, 2003: "Broken Fable" by Cynie Cory
August 26, 2003: "Resolution" by Eamon Grennan
August 25, 2003: "Street Fair" by Lynne McMahon
March 8, 2003: "Even Before Your Elbow Knocked Over The Glass" by Emily Rosko
February 26, 2003: "Apology, a Love Poem" by Leah Nielsen
February 13, 2003: "The Advent of Zero" by Paul Guest
October 26, 2002: "The Judgment of Paris (Whereabouts Unknown)" by Jim Barnes
October 23, 2002: "Padua" by Mark Halperin
October 2, 2002: "The Dead" by Kate Northrop

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