Verse Daily: Christian Barter

Today's poem is "Providence"

from The Literary Review

Christian Barter's first collection of poetry, The Singers I Prefer, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2005, and noted in Poets and Writers magazine as one of the best debut poetry books. His poems have appeared in a number of periodicals, including the Georgia Review, North American Review, and The American Scholar, his work has been featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writers Almanac. He is a trail crew supervisor at Arcadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine.
About The Literary Review:
Poets in this issue: Kathleen McGookey, Shawn Sturgeon, Annemette Kure Andersen, Thom Satterlee, Srecko Kosovel, Ana Jelnikar, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Kaethe Schwehn, Jonathan Barrett, Gabriella Leto, Robert Hahn, Michela Martini, Christian Barter, John Mann, Justin Marks, Kristi Maxwell, Andrew Michael Roberts, Lightsey Darst, Kevin Matz, Rebecca Givens, Cary Goldstein, Debra Wierenga

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Other poems from The Literary Review in Verse Daily:
May 25, 2006: "Fairy Tale" by Kathleen McGookey
May 22, 2006: "=" by Lightsey Darst
March 19, 2006: "Unveiling" by Diane Mehta
March 17, 2006: "but the house sparrows are . . ." by Jon Woodward
October 7, 2005: "When Will We Begin?" by Eric Elshtain
October 3, 2005: "Refugee" Richard Hoffman
May 27, 2005: "The Gazing-Globe Garden" Jeanne Larsen
May 24, 2005: "Music Left by Another" George Looney
May 22, 2005: "Dishonest Elegy for a Sentimental Mood" Melissa Koosmann
May 20, 2005: "Pas De L'Incise" D. Nurske
January 27, 2005: "What Goes On" by Scott Topper
January 26, 2005: "We Golems" by Michael Demos
December 9, 2004: "Seeing Through Things" by Diane Mehta
December 8, 2004: "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" by Renée Ashley
December 7, 2004: "Fleur de Lys" by Daniel Mark Epstein
December 6, 2004: "Animals at My House" by Eduardo Chirinos, translated by G. J. Racz
October 9, 2004: "Prose Poems" by Louise Ho
May 19, 2004: "There Must be Music or Fear" by Rodney Wittner
May 18, 2004: "Pythia: The Process" by Rita Signorelli-Pappas
February 4, 2004: "Insomnia" by Rick Mulkey
May 28, 2003: "The Garden" by David Daniel
January 17, 2003: "The Shelter in Children's Stories" by Stephen Frech
December 29, 2002: "Quo Journal: Just as They Come" by Michael Morse
July 28, 2002: "The Heron" by Kathleen Jamie

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