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Today's poem is "A Song in There"

from Beloit Poetry Journal

Betsy Sholl's most recent book is Late Psalm (University of Wisconsin, 2004). She teaches in the Vermont College MFA Program and the University of Southern Maine, and was recently named Poet Laureate of Maine.

Other poems by Betsy Sholl in Verse Daily:
November 29, 2007:   "In Cana" "The Lebanese spelled it with a q, without the u...."
April 24, 2007:   "Lament" by Betsy Sholl
January 16, 2007:   "Bass Line" " He needs a bigger body, bull fiddle..."
July 18, 2005:   "A Little Traveling Music" "Like its first three notes, rising to beg..."
February 18, 2005:  "Angel of Dissent" "The young man's story was set on a cliff..."
December 14, 2004:  "The Tortoise" "An apartment collapse in Turkey, the rise..."
January 16, 2004:  "Two Poems" "Wharves with their warehouses sagging..."
April 17, 2003:  "Here" "Wharves with their warehouses sagging..."

Books by Betsy Sholl: Late Psalm, Don't Explain, Pick a Card, Rooms Overhead, Appalachian Winter, Changing Faces

Other poems on the web by Betsy Sholl:
Two poems
Three poems
"Endless Argument"
Three poems
Two poems
"Doing Time"

Betsy Sholl's Home Page.

Betsy Sholl according to Wikipedia.

About Beloit Poetry Journal:
Poets in this issue: Kirun Kapur, Erin Malone, Lizzie Hutton, Margaret Yocom, Young Smith, Annie Boutelle, Roxane Beth Johnson, Anne Timberlake, Charles Wyatt, John Hodgen, Paul Gibbons, Christine Marshal, Betsy Sholl, Carrie Messenger, Ioana Ieoronim, Matthew Raymond

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Editor: John Rosenwald & Lee Sharkey

Other poems from Beloit Poetry Journal in Verse Daily:
May 27, 2008:   "Apostrophe to What's Still Here" by Christine Marshall
February 12, 2008:   "Jazz from Cripple City" by Stephen Kuusisto
December 27, 2007:   "Fetching" by Christopher Matthews
December 26, 2007:   "One of the Magi" by Greg Wrenn
September 14, 2007:   "A Story About Things" by Heather Maki
September 13, 2007:   "The Chapter of the Rending in Sunder" by Mia Nussbaum
September 10, 2007:   "Extravagance" by Steve Wilson
March 25, 2007:   "Lullaby" by Seth Abramson
March 24, 2007:   "Directions" by Erin Malone
March 20, 2007:   "Doing Hegel's Laundry" by Melissa Tuckey
December 7, 2006:   "Ghost Train" by Rhoda Janzen
September 19, 2006:   "Blue Visits" by Rane Arroyo
June 25, 2006:   "The Mortgaging of Self Is Done" by Aimée Sands
June 20, 2006:   "Sisyphus" by Malcolm Alexander
March 31, 2006:   from The Book of Zeros by Sam Reed
March 30, 2006:   "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 28, 2006:   "St. Francis in Winter" by Marianne Boruch
March 27, 2006:   "Marianne Boruch" by Matthew Thorburn
January 13, 2006:   "from Gomorrah, a sequence" by Tony Brinkley
January 4, 2006:   "For Orts" by Ander Monson
January 1, 2006:   "Milkweed" by Susan Maxwell
September 8, 2005:   "Roman Elegy" by Michael Snediker
September 7, 2005:   "Faced with 8:38" and "8:38 is straw" " Mary Molinary
September 5, 2005:   "Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" " Albert Goldbarth
July 23, 2005:   "Elemental: Nitrogen" Suzanne Heyd
July 22, 2005:   "The Blue-Gray Body of the Zambezi" Dawn Lonsinger
July 20, 2005:   "Making History" and "A Disappearing Act" Karl Elder
March 4, 2005:  "Catherine Blake" by Rebecca Dunham
March 3, 2005:  "Cartographic" by Joshua Rivkin
March 2, 2005:  "Turning 50" by Bruce A. Jacobs
August 28, 2004:  "Obsolescence" by Leigh Anne Couch
August 27, 2004:  "The Weight of the World" by Frank Steele
August 26, 2004:  "For the Suicides" by Lola Haskins
August 25, 2004:  "Half Life" by Reynolds Dixon
August 24, 2004:  "The Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker" by Bruce Tindall
June 11, 2004:  "Famish" by Lisa Furmanski
June 8, 2004:  "A Short History of the Republic" by John Haines
March 7, 2004:  "Waning Moon" by Conrad Hilberry
March 5, 2004:  "Portrait of the Family Without a Father" by Ken Victor
March 4, 2004:  "At the Intersection" by Andrea Heny
March 1, 2004:  "Marriage Bed" by Annie Boutelle
December 23, 2003:  "Exactly at midnight" by Margaret Aho
April 8, 2003:  "The Totality of Facts" by Allan Peterson

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