Verse Daily: Mary Jo Salter

Today's poem is "Aurora Borealis"

from New Letters

Mary Jo Salter is the author of five poetry collections, including Open Shutters (Knopf, 2003), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and she has coedited, with Margaret Ferguson and Jon Stallworthy, the fourth (1996) and fifth (2005) editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. She is Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer at Mount Holyoke College and lives in Amherst, Mass.
About New Letters:
Poets in this issue: Allison Eir Jenks, Liliana Ursu, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Michael Waters, Jene Erick Beardsley, Megan Grumbling, Albert Goldbarth, T. Alan Broughton, Adrian C. Louis, Mary Jo Salter, Cecilia Woloch, Lorin Cuoco, Richard Newman, Walter Bargen, Anne Guzzardi, Ovid, John Balaban

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Other poems from New Letters in Verse Daily:
May 29, 2006: "Quail" by Dore Kiesselbach
November 23, 2005: "Migration" by Brian Swann
May 15, 2005: "Water Walking Stick" Stuart Friebert
May 7, 2005: "The Small Toe" Linda Hogan
January 12, 2005: "Awaiting the Return Ferry" by Nance Van Winckel
January 10, 2005: "How Else Today" by Albert Goldbarth
September 29, 2004: "Of Unsent Letters, One" by Jill Osier
September 28, 2004: "Go" and "Gone" by Mark Irwin
September 26, 2004: "Houses Made Only of Entrance" by Abe Louise Young
September 24, 2004: "After Eden" by Linda Pastan
May 16, 2004: "Wild Things in a Dream" by Heather Ross Miller
January 21, 2004: "With Two Camels and One Donkey" by Robin Becker
July 25, 2003: "Meridian" by Mia Leonin
May 26, 2003: "The Flag of My Disposition" by Elaine Sexton
April 14, 2003: "On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise" by Joanna Goodman
February 3, 2003: "Passing Through the Shadows Of Great Buildings" by Nance Van Winckel
January 6, 2003: "Bid Me Be the Bird" by Nance Van Winckel
September 26, 2002: "The Sacrifice" by Jim Simmerman

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