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Today's poem is "Morning Edition"

from The Literary Review

Andrzej Sosnowski, born in Warsaw in 1959, lectures on American literature at Warsaw University and is an editor at Literatura na Swiecie. He received the Illakowiczowna Prize for best first collection in 1992, the prestigious Koscielski Prize in 1997, the Odra Prize in 1998, and most recently the Silesius Prize for his latest book, Po teczy [Over the Rainbow], (2007). His other books include: Zycie na Korei [Life in Korea] (1992), Nouvelles Impressions d'Amerigue (1994), Sezon na Helu [A Season in Hell] (1994), Stancje [Lodgings] (1997), Konwoj. Opera [Convoy. An Opera] (1999), Zoom (2000), Taxi (2003), Gdzie koniec teczy nie dotyka, ziemi [Where the End of the Rainbow Does Not Touch the Ground] (2005), and the essay collection Najryzykowniej [Riskiest] (2007). His translations include selected Cantos by Ezra Pound, selected poems by John Ashbery, Ronald Firbank's The Flower Beneath the Foot, and Jane Bowles's Two Serious Ladies.

Benjamin Paloff is a poetry editor for Boston Review and assistant professor of Slavic and comparative literatures at the University of Michigan. His translations from Polish include Dorota Maslowska's Snow White a: Russian Red and Marek Bienczyk's Tworki. His own poems ha appeared in The New Republic, The Paris Review, A Public Space, a elsewhere.

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Other poems on the web by Andrzej Sosnowski:
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About The Literary Review:
Writers in this issue: Richard Becker; Steve Davenport; Ngo Tu Lap Translated by Martha Collins; Mary Rose O’Reilley; Augusto Rodríguez Translated by Alexis Levitin; Shya Scanlon; J.P. Seaton and other translators of Chinese poetry; Andrzej Sosnowski; Benjamin Paloff; Ilan Stavans Wyatt; Renée Ashley; Madeleine Beckman; Walter Cummins; Jena Salon

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Other poems from The Literary Review in Verse Daily:
September 22, 2008:   "Popular Science" by Steve Davenport
March 21, 2008:   "Morning Edition" by Michele Newcomb
March 18, 2008:   "Gloucester" by Ann Snodgrass
October 19, 2007:   "Lywelwyn's Dog" by Peter E. Murphy
October 16, 2007:   "The Night in Question" by Paul Lisicky
April 4, 2007:   "Climograph" by James Grinwis
April 1, 2007:   "So You Want to Be a Teaching Assistant in English" by Jeff Worley
March 31, 2007:   "In 1986 My Uncle Jack Sits On His Front Porch" by William Delman
May 25, 2006:   "Fairy Tale" by Kathleen McGookey
May 22, 2006:   "=" by Lightsey Darst
March 19, 2006:   "Unveiling" by Diane Mehta
March 17, 2006:   "but the house sparrows are . . ." by Jon Woodward
October 7, 2005:   "When Will We Begin?" by Eric Elshtain
October 3, 2005:   "Refugee" Richard Hoffman
May 27, 2005:  "The Gazing-Globe Garden" Jeanne Larsen
May 24, 2005:  "Music Left by Another" George Looney
May 22, 2005:  "Dishonest Elegy for a Sentimental Mood" Melissa Koosmann
May 20, 2005:  "Pas De L'Incise" D. Nurkse
January 27, 2005:  "What Goes On" by Scott Topper
January 26, 2005:  "We Golems" by Michael Demos
December 9, 2004:  "Seeing Through Things" by Diane Mehta
December 8, 2004:  "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" by Renée Ashley
December 7, 2004:  "Fleur de Lys" by Daniel Mark Epstein
December 6, 2004:  "Animals at My House" by Eduardo Chirinos, translated by G. J. Racz
October 9, 2004:  "Prose Poems" by Louise Ho
May 19, 2004:  "There Must be Music or Fear" by Rodney Wittner
May 18, 2004:  "Pythia: The Process" by Rita Signorelli-Pappas
February 4, 2004:  "Insomnia" by Rick Mulkey
May 28, 2003:  "The Garden" by David Daniel
January 17, 2003:  "The Shelter in Children's Stories" by Stephen Frech
December 29, 2002:  "Quo Journal: Just as They Come" by Michael Morse
July 28, 2002:  "The Heron" by Kathleen Jamie

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