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Today's poem is "Trouble."

from the Southern Review

Melissa Stein's poems have appeared in New England Review, American Poetry Review, Many Mountains Moving, North American Review, Calyx Journal, Crab Orchard Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She is a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco.

About The Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: Seth Abramson, Dan Albergotti, Alison Baumann, Jack B. Bedell, Ron Block, Rick Bursky, Ron De Maris, William Greenway, Emily Grosholz, Bob Hicok, Mark Jarman, Richard Jones, Lance Larsen, Barbara Lau, Christopher Matthews, Susan Meyers, Jean Nordhaus, Wyatt Prunty, Christine Rhein, Thom Satterlee, R. T. Smith, W. D. Snodgrass, Jane Springer, Melissa Stein, Keith Taylor, William Wenthe

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Editor: Bret Lott

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September 23, 2004:  "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
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September 21, 2004:  "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
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August 19, 2003:  "Neither the Season, nor the Place" by Susan Meyers
August 18, 2003:  "Revival" by Lynn Powell
June 7, 2003:  "The Reliquary" by Ann Townsend
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June 3, 2003:  "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
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April 29, 2003:  "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002:  "Brains" by Rodney Jones
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