Verse Daily: Michael Spence

Today's poem is "Oracle"

from Southwest Review

Michael Spence has driven public-transit buses in the Seattle area for twenty years. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, the Antioch Review, and The Yale Review; new work is forthcoming in The New Criterion, Barrow Street, Literary Imagination, and the North American Review. His latest book is Adam Chooses (Rose Alley press).
About Southwest Review:
Poets in this issue: Arthur Brown, Thomas Pfau, Charles Simic, Richard Kenney, Debora Greger, Christopher Bakken, Michael Spence, Peter Marcus, Jonathan Fink, Rachel Wetzsteon

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Southwest Review * Southern Methodist University * P.O. Box 750374 * Dallas TX 75275-0374
Editor-in-Chief: Willard Spiegelman

Other poems from Southwest Review in Verse Daily:
March 13, 2006: "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" by William Logan
January 7, 2006: "Grotesque" by Sarah Arvio
September 16, 2005: "Rosemary" Andrew Frisardi
July 2, 2005: "Eve Leaves Eden" by Celia Gilbert
June 29, 2005: "Snowdon Philosophy" Neil Shepard
March 25, 2005: "UFOs" by Hailey Leithauser
March 24, 2005: "Tornado/Warning" by Brian Henry
March 23, 2005: "Variations on a Theme Beginning With Darkness" by Julianne Buchsbaum
November 27, 2004: "Everything" by Debora Greger
June 22, 2004: "Money" by Daniel Corrie
June 20, 2004: "Some Thoughts on the Bergen Street Renaissance" by Tess Taylor
June 17, 2004: "The Green Going On" by Larry Bradley
April 1, 2004: "Poison" by Charles Martin
March 30, 2004: "Rehearsals for the New Order" by Bruce Bond
March 29, 2004: "For Rent" by Dolores Hayden
December 2, 2003: "Hay Field on Methodist Hill" by Deborah Warren
December 1, 2003: "Platonic" byWilliam Wenthe
June 19, 2003: "The Park Interpreter Speaks" by Leslie Noyes Harrison
June 3, 2003: "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
March 11, 2003: "Restoration, Full Moon Garden" by Andrew McCord
March 10, 2003: "The Dunes" by William Logan
December 22, 2002: "Georgic" by Michael J. Rosen
December 20, 2002: "Wisdom Teeth" by Eliza Griswold
December 18, 2002: Variations on a Postcard by T. S. Eliot by Karl Kirchwey
September 20, 2002: "Chevron and Swoop" by Cecily Parks

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