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Today's poem is "Surrender"

from Salt Hill Journal

Dorianne Laux’s fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W.W. Norton), was the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also author of Awake (1990) What We Carry (1994) Smoke (2000) and Superman: The Chapbook (2008). She taught for 15 years at the University of Oregon in Eugene and since 2004, at Pacific University's Low-Residency MFA Program. She and her husband, poet Joseph Millar, recently moved to Raleigh where she joins the faculty at North Carolina State University.

Other poems by Dorianne Laux in Verse Daily:
February 23, 2009:   "Dog Moon" "The old dog next door won’t stop barking..."
June 4, 2008:   "Over The Hedge" "We labor in the backyard, weeding..."
September 24, 2007:   "Raft" " Small flying creature for whom..."
May 15, 2006:   "Starling" " Tail a fanfare and the devil's..."

Books by Dorianne Laux:

Other poems on the web by Dorianne Laux:
"Graveyard at Hurd’s Gulch"
Two poems
Thirteen poems
"Dust"
Three poems
"Heart"
Eleven poems (Audio)
"The Shipfitter's Wife"
"Moon in the Window"
"When Can We Leave?"
"Break"
"Juneau Spring"
"How It Will Happen, When"

Dorianne Laux's Blog.

Dorianne Laux according to Wikipedia.

About Salt Hill Journal:

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Salt Hill Journal * Syracuse University * English Department * Syracuse, NY 13244
Poety Editors: Kelinda Jones * Billy Templeton III
Other poems by Salt Hill Journal in Verse Daily:
November 13, 2008:   from "All the Purple Deer" by Christopher Shipman
November 12, 2008:   "Andalusia" by Matthew Rohrer
November 11, 2008:   "Every Will Builds Itself a Satellite" by Chris Tonelli

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