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Today's poem is "Columba livia"

from the Southern Review

Sandra Meek is the author of two books of poems, Burn (2005) and Nomadic Foundations (2002), and a chapbook, The Circumference of Arrival (2001). She edited the new anthology Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad (2007). A cofounding editor of Ninebark Press, she also teaches in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Writing at Berry College in northwest Georgia.

All the poems by Sandra Meek that have appeared on Verse Daily:
July 16, 2005:   "Tillandsia Usneoides" "You could walk under it your whole life..."
August 16, 2002:  "Foundations for Fire" "In this photo, I send you light..."

Books by Sandra Meek: Burn, Nomadic Foundations, The Circumference of Arrival, Deep Travel: Contemporary American Poets Abroad

Other poems on the web by Sandra Meek:
"Extinction"
"Balancing Acts"
"Wreck"

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, Sandra Meek, Andrew Hudgins, Sarah Kennedy, Jacqueline Kolosov, Sydney Lea, Bob Hicok, 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

Other poems from the Southern Review in Verse Daily:

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The Southern Review * Louisiana State University * Old President's House * Baton Rouge, LA 70803-0001
Editor: Bret Lott

Other from the Southern Review in Verse Daily:
November 9, 2007:   "Poltergeist" by Jennifer Metsker
November 6, 2007:   "A celebration of lasting achievment" by Bob Hicok
August 5, 2007:   "Be the Dog" by J. Allyn Rosser
August 2, 2007:   "Haruspicy" by Sarah Hannah
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
May 1, 2003:  "Heron" by John Drury
April 29, 2003:  "For the Fog Horn When There Is No Fog" by Sarah Hannah
December 30, 2002:  "Brains" by Rodney Jones
December 16, 2002:  Heaven by Natasha Saje
September 9, 2002:  "My Emotions Are Like Fish" by John Brehm

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