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Today's poem is "Complaint"

from New Orleans Review

Mary Leader's collections of poetry are Red Signature (Graywolf) and The Penultimate Suitor (Iowa). Her new collection, Beyond the Fire, is forthcoming in late 2010 with Shearsman Books (U.K.). She worked for many years as a lawyer, and now teaches at Purdue University.

Books by Mary Leader:

Other poems on the web by Mary Leader:
"For the Love of Gerald Finzi"
"They Vibrate"

Mary Leader according to Wikipedia.

About New Orleans Review:

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New Orleans Review * Box 195 * Loyola University * New Orleans, LA 70118
Poetry Editor: Katie Ford

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January 1, 2008:   "This Morning After Snow, the Body Scrapes Off" by K. A. Hays
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August 27, 2005:   "I Lived in the Forest" by Emmy Hunter
August 25, 2005:   "from Crossed, Cross, Crossing" Esther Lee
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August 19, 2004:  "Gacela of Animal Wisdom" by J. P. Dancing Bear
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August 17, 2004:  "His Dossier from Babel" by Andrew Miller
August 14, 2004:  "Daedalus" by Hailey Leithauser
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