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Today's poem is "The Tightrope Walker"

from Smartish Pace

Lesley Dauer's first book of poems, The Fagile City (Bluestem, 1996), won the Bluestem Award. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000) and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets (New England, 2000). Garrison Keillor has twice read her work on "The Writer's Almanac."

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Other poems from Smartish Pace in Verse Daily:

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April 7, 2006:   "Me, The Wife: Versions of Medusa" by Lynnell Edwards
April 4, 2006:   "Palinurus" by A.E. Stallings
September 22, 2005:   "Capturing a Plum Blossom" by John Pursley III
September 21, 2005:   "eBay Sonnets" Denise Duhamel
September 19, 2005:   "Would-Be Pastoral Elegy" Gail White
February 4, 2005:  "Church" by Megan Snyder-Camp
February 3, 2005:  "Translation" by Robert Morgan
February 2, 2005:  "Second Bearing, 1919" by Claudia Emerson
January 31, 2005:  "Heat Lightning" by Ted Kooser
August 30, 2004:  "Without Mythologies" by Henry Weinfield
August 29, 2004:  "Fifty-Fifty" by Patricia Clark
August 23, 2004:  "Olivia Between Acts" by Stuart Lishan
August 21, 2004:  "Garden" by Theodore Worozbyt
January 8, 2004:  "Missouri River" by Lawrence Revard
January 7, 2004:  "Pontoon Pantoum #505" by Kathy Fagan
January 5, 2004:  "The Fool Card" by Annie Finch
July 30, 2003:  "The Fruit Thereof" by William Wenthe
July 29, 2003:  "Slow Leak" by Ellen Doré Watson
July 28, 2003:  "Poor Excuses" by Andi Werblin
December 1, 2002:  Squirrel Hunting by Edmund August
November 30, 2002:  49 Views of Childhood by Bin Ramke
November 28, 2002:  The Birdhouse by Greg Williamson
November 26, 2002:  A Letter from Mama (1916-1999) by Marilyn Nelson

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