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Today's poem is "Antietam"

from Gulf Coast

Sandra Beasley is the author of I Was the Jukebox, winner of the 2009 Barnard Women Poets Prize, selected by Joy Harjo and forthcoming from W. W. Norton. Her first poetry collection, Theories of Falling, won the 2007 New Issues Poetry Prize judged by Marie Howe. She lives in Washington D.C., where she writes for the Washington Post Magazine and is working on Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, forthcoming from Crown.

Other poems by Sandra Beasley in Verse Daily:
January 16, 2009:   "The Platypus Speaks" "As far as the duck-billed platypus goes..."
September 30, 2008:   "The Sand Speaks" "I'm fluid and omnivorous, casual in..."
May 16, 2008:   "Theories of Falling" "After years of research, I can only guarantee..."
February 23, 2008:   "Proposal" "Show me a tent of well-dressed witnesses..."
July 9, 2005:   "Sestina Inviting My Sister to Become a Pirate" "We wake to breakfast in a burning house..."

Books by Sandra Beasley:

Other poems on the web by Sandra Beasley:
Three poems
"Another Failed Poem about the Greeks"
"The World War Speaks"
"Parlor Games"
"The Plays of Lilliput"
Three poems
Two poems
Five poems
Three poems
"Making the Crane"

Sandra Beasley's Home Page.

Sandra Beasley's Blog.

About Gulf Coast:

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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art * Department of English * University of Houston * Houston, TX 77204-3013
Poetry Editors: Lauren Berry, Anna Journey and Kent Shaw
Other poems by Gulf Coast in Verse Daily:
December 9, 2009:   "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson
December 3, 2009:   "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg
May 15, 2009:   "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson
May 11, 2009:   "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker
May 8, 2009:   "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat
November 4, 2008:   "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson
November 3, 2008:   "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda
November 1, 2008:   "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle
October 30, 2008:   "Red" by Allan Petterson
October 29, 2008:   "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh
June 15, 2008:   "The End" by Victoria Chang
June 14, 2008:   "Morality" by Susie Meserve
June 10, 2008:   "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 10, 2008:   "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok

March 9, 2008:   "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves
April 18, 2005:  "Sonnet" by Karen Volkman
April 4, 2005:  "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" by George Looney
March 14, 2005:  "The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello

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