Verse Daily: Frances Richey

Today's poem is "To My Son In Iraq"

from River Styx

Frances Richey is the poetry editor with Bellevue Literary Review. Her first collection, The Burning Point, won the White Pine Poetry Prize and was published in 2004. She is the recipient of a World of Voices grant and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in Cream City Review, Gulf Coast, Notre Dame Review, Poetry Northwest, Salmagundi, and others.
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Other poems from River Styx in Verse Daily:
January 3, 2007: "God's Ode to Creation" by Maura Stanton
July 23, 2006: "The Devil's Trill" by Timothy Liu
July 18, 2006: "The Fern Seed" by Cecily Parks
January 25, 2006: "Single-Lens Reflex" by Debra Kang Dean
January 12, 2006: "Becoming Involved" by Elizabeth Rees
June 2, 2005: "Eighty From Seventy-Eight" by William Gass
May 31, 2005: "Maybe" Myrna Stone
May 30, 2005: "Chum" Lucia Perillo
July 2, 2004: "In Ambient Light" by Greg Rappleye
June 30, 2004: "Darwin Enters the City of His Birth" by Melanie Dusseau
September 4, 2003: "Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight" by James Doyle
September 3, 2003: "Thank You" by Molly Peacock
March 7, 2003: "Love, with Trees and Lightning" by Catie Rosemurgy
March 6, 2003: "A Leopard Hanging in a Tree" by Eric Rawson
March 3, 2003: "Waiting With a Stranger" by David Simpson
February 25, 2003: "Fame and Fortune Cookie" by Richard Cecil
December 6, 2002: Small Ghost Poem by Lawrence Raab
December 4, 2002: Bride by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
September 16, 2002: "Advertisement for the Ford Explorer" by David Roderick
July 27, 2002: "Heroic Roses" by Elton Glaser

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