Verse Daily: Michael Chitwood

Today's poem is "The Deer"

from New Letters

Michael Chitwood's most recent collection of poems, Gospel Road Going, was published in 2002 and was awarded the 2003 Roanoke-Chowan Prize for Poetry. In 2006, he published a collection of essays and short stories called Finishing Touches, and he has two new books of poetry forthcoming from Tupelo Press and Louisiana State University Press. Born and raised in the hills of the Virginia Blue Ridge, he lives in Chapel Hill, NC., where he is a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina.
About New Letters:
Poets in this issue: Thom Schramm, Lightsey Darst, Gary Soto, Michael Chitwood, Steven Rood, Deborah Ager, Steve Paul, Christopher Buckley, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Robert Dana, Richard Jones, Stanley E. Banks, John Poch, William Logan, John Knoepfle, Ahmad Shamlu (A. Bamdad), Parviz Omidvar, Iraj Omidvar, Debora Greger

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Other poems from New Letters in Verse Daily:
February 17, 2007: "Nighties" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 23, 2006: "Aurora Borealis" by Mary Jo Salter
May 29, 2006: "Quail" by Dore Kiesselbach
November 23, 2005: "Migration" by Brian Swann
May 15, 2005: "Water Walking Stick" Stuart Friebert
May 7, 2005: "The Small Toe" Linda Hogan
January 12, 2005: "Awaiting the Return Ferry" by Nance Van Winckel
January 10, 2005: "How Else Today" by Albert Goldbarth
September 29, 2004: "Of Unsent Letters, One" by Jill Osier
September 28, 2004: "Go" and "Gone" by Mark Irwin
September 26, 2004: "Houses Made Only of Entrance" by Abe Louise Young
September 24, 2004: "After Eden" by Linda Pastan
May 16, 2004: "Wild Things in a Dream" by Heather Ross Miller
January 21, 2004: "With Two Camels and One Donkey" by Robin Becker
July 25, 2003: "Meridian" by Mia Leonin
May 26, 2003: "The Flag of My Disposition" by Elaine Sexton
April 14, 2003: "On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise" by Joanna Goodman
February 3, 2003: "Passing Through the Shadows Of Great Buildings" by Nance Van Winckel
January 6, 2003: "Bid Me Be the Bird" by Nance Van Winckel
September 26, 2002: "The Sacrifice" by Jim Simmerman

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