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Today's poem is "Poltergeist"

from the Southern Review

Jennifer Metsker received her MFA in poetry in 2006 from the University of Michigan, where she currently teaches composition and creative writing. Her work has also appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review and Oleander Review.

About the Southern Review:
Poets in this issue: William Aarnes, Mark Armacost, Cindy Beebe, David Bottoms, John Canaday, Madeline DeFrees, Beth Ann Fennelly, Debora Greger, Michael Heffernan, Jennifer Metsker, Andrew Hudgins, Sarah Kennedy, Jacqueline Kolosov, Sydney Lea, Sandra Meek, Jennifer Metsker, Mary Oliver, Mike Perrow, Richard L. Powers, Nicholas Samaras, Luci Shaw, David St. John, Nance Van Winckel, Robley Wilson, C. Dale Young, Linda Zisquit

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Poetry Editor: Allison Seay

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Editor: Bret Lott

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June 6, 2007:   "Not Mattering to the Earth" by Colette Inez
June 5, 2007:   "Something in My Eye" by Allison Smythe
February 9, 2007:   "Mysterious Ways" by Alison Pelegrin
September 15, 2006:   "God of The" by Garrett Doherty
September 14, 2006:   "One Morning a Rose Blooms" by Richard Tillinghast
September 13, 2006:   "Aubade" by Rhoda Janzen
June 22, 2006:   "Trouble." by Melissa Stein
June 19, 2006:   "Love of Sport" by Bob Hicok
January 19, 2006:   "Key to Pronunciation: /sälm/" by Rita Mae Reese
January 17, 2006:   "Leaving the Land" by Stephen C. Behrendt
January 16, 2006:   "The Clown's Mother" by Brent Pallas
November 25, 2004:  "Founder's day" by Bob Hicok
November 24, 2004:  "In Thrush Light" by Gyorgyi Voros
November 23, 2004:  "To Acedia" by Daniel Tobin
November 22, 2004:  "Close Quarters" by Cathryn Essinger
September 25, 2004:  "Dry Brush Painting of Winter Crows" by Barry Sternlieb
September 23, 2004:  "James McNeill Whistler at St. Ives, 1883" by Floyd Skloot
September 22, 2004:  "Keep and Give Away" by Susan Meyers
September 21, 2004:  "The Wife of Job" by Morri Creech
September 20, 2004:  "Indian River Inlet" by Fleda Brown
March 10, 2004:  "See! I Will Not Forget You. I Have Carved You on the Palm of My Hand." by Thomas Reiter
March 9, 2004:  "Mary Rockwell Talks to Her Son in the Hospital after He's Been Stabbed During a Fencing Lesson" by Julianna Baggott
August 20, 2003:  "Water Rising" by Fleda Brown
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
June 5, 2003:  "Hieronymus and the Lion" by Maurya Simon
June 3, 2003:  "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
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December 16, 2002:  Heaven by Natasha Saje
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