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Today's poem is "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics"

from Columbia Poetry Review

Mary Ann Samyn's most recent book is Purr (New Issues, 2005). New work has appeared in The Journal, Field, Meridian, Third Coast, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia.

Other poems by Mary Ann Samyn in Verse Daily:
November 21, 2006:   "Wish and What Happens" " Back to the fe fi ho hum of it...."
November 16, 2006:   "An Introduction to Devotion" " Do you consider yourself adept? The face of..."
April 6, 2006:   "Clarity, 1.2" " Considering The Despair of St. Thomas...."
October 15, 2004:  "A Thought, for Example, Is a Form" "Of light. And at the center, light. And at the edges..."

Books by Mary Ann Samyn: Purr, Inside the Yellow Dress, Captivity Narrative, Rooms by the Sea

Other poems on the web by Mary Ann Samyn:
Two poems

About Columbia Poetry Review:

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Columbia Poetry Review * English Department * Columbia College Chicago * 600 South Michigan Ave. * Chicago, IL 60605
Editors: Hanna Andrews, Amanda M. Johnson, Becca Klaver, BJ Soloy, Jennifer Watman

Other poems by Columbia Poetry Review in Verse Daily:
May 30, 2008:   "Chris McCreary" by Chris McCreary
May 28, 2008:   "Is that robin's-egg blue?, or A Poet Answers Her Critics" by Michael Robins
May 4, 2007:   "Insomnia" by Rynn Williams
April 30, 2007:   "Sinning Skel Misclape" by Lisa Jarnot
August 25, 2006:   "Black Iris" by Bruce Bond
August 24, 2006:   "The Idiot's Guide to Faking Your Own Death and Moving to Mexico" by Jason Bredle
August 22, 2006:   "Birds, Women and Writing" by Medbh McGuckian
August 21, 2006:   "Say the Boy" by Seth Abramson

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