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Today's poem is "Looking Forward to the Twentieth Century"

from West Branch

James Doyle's new book of poetry, Bending Under the Yellow Police Tapes, will be published by Steel Toe Books in 2007. His poems are forthcoming in Appalachia, River Styx, Georgetown Review, and Mid-American Review.

Other poems by James Doyle in Verse Daily:
March 21, 2007:   "All That Glitters Is Gold" "Wine flask, beer cans..."
January 15, 2007:   "Among the Most Recent Projectiles" " storming the sky is the earth...."
January 24, 2004:  "After the Harvest" "We step over and between apples..."
September 4, 2003:  "Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight" "If I lived in the nineteenth century..."

Books by James Doyle: Einstein Considers a Sand Dune

Other poems on the web by James Doyle: "Magritte" "Vitamins"

About West Branch:
Poets in this issue: Danielle Cadena Deulen, John Gallaher, William Jolliff, John Kinsella, Paul Gibbons, Brian Patrick Heston, James Doyle, Nancy Eimers, Christopher Cunningham, Peter Waldor, William Olsen

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Other from West Branch in Verse Daily:
June 8, 2007:   "Earth-tone Anecdote" by John Gallaher
June 3, 2006:   "The Customary Mysteries" by Aleda Shirley
June 2, 2006:   "[When You Asked, I Thought At First]" by Boyer Rickel
May 31, 2006:   "In A Week Or Two, My Love, The Maple Will Be Empty." by David Swerdlow
January 15, 2006:   "Pursuit" by Sarah Sloat
January 5, 2006:   "Rehoboth Beach" by Matthew Ladd
January 2, 2006:   "Ghazal of the Bright Body" by Sarah Sloat
December 28, 2005:   "Rain-Freighted" by Eric Pankey
May 21, 2005:  "The Innocent" Jean Nordhaus
May 17, 2005:  "Vespers" Charles Wright
December 14, 2004:  "The Tortoise" by Betsy Sholl
December 13, 2004:  "Grackles" by Lisa Williams
August 10, 2004:  "Anecdote of the Turkeys" by Wayne Dodd
August 2, 2004:  "Speak, Zero" by Mary Ruefle
June 19, 2004:  "Yes, to the Mole, Emerging in Night" by Daniel Bourne
February 10, 2004:  "Rorschach on Pond" by Sean Serrell
February 9, 2004:  "Deer" by Sarah Kennedy
June 1, 2003:  "First Thing" by Bill Knott
May 20, 2003:  "Succession" by Bill Knott
May 19, 2003:  "Angry Music" by John Nixon, Jr.
May 16, 2003:  "I Never Promised You a Worm Farm" by Charles Harper Webb
January 31, 2003:  "Collect Call" by Michelle Boisseau
January 15, 2003:  "Cautionary Tale" by Nance Van Winckel
January 8, 2003:  "The Climbers" by Jeffrey Skinner
January 7, 2003:  "Steadily" by Michelle Boisseau

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