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Today's poem is "Tails"

from New Letters

Maxine Kumin’s awards include the Pulitzer and Ruth Lily Poetry Prizes, the Poets’ Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost Medals. Her 17th poetry collection, forthcoming in the spring of 2010, is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010. She and her husband live on a farm in New Hampshire.

Other poems by Maxine Kumin in Verse Daily:
March 4, 2007:   "Xochi's Tale" "Is it my fault I'm part rat terrier, part..."

Books by Maxine Kumin:

Other poems on the web by Maxine Kumin:
Six poems
Ten poems
"Nurture"

Maxine Kumin's Website.

Maxine Kumin according to Wikipedia.

About New Letters:

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New Letters * UMKC | University House * 5101 Rockhill Road * Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
Editor: Robert Stewart

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October 3, 2008:   Dante's The Inferno "Canto I" by Dante Alighieri, translated by Mary Jo Bang
September 29, 2008:   "An Explanation" by Albert Goldbarth
December 13, 2007:   "My Heart" by Kim Addonizio
December 11, 2007:   "Uncles (Play)" by Kevin Young
November 24, 2007:   "Watermelon" by Alice Friman
June 9, 2007:   "Aware of Angels" by Mark Jarman
February 20, 2007:   "The Deer" by Michael Chitwood
February 17, 2007:   "Nighties" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
September 23, 2006:   "Aurora Borealis" by Mary Jo Salter
May 29, 2006:   "Quail" by Dore Kiesselbach
November 23, 2005:   "Migration" by Brian Swann
May 15, 2005:  "Water Walking Stick" Stuart Friebert
May 7, 2005:  "The Small Toe" Linda Hogan
January 12, 2005:  "Awaiting the Return Ferry" by Nance Van Winckel
January 10, 2005:  "How Else Today" by Albert Goldbarth
September 29, 2004:  "Of Unsent Letters, One" by Jill Osier
September 28, 2004:  "Go" and "Gone" by Mark Irwin
September 26, 2004:  "Houses Made Only of Entrance" by Abe Louise Young
September 24, 2004:  "After Eden" by Linda Pastan
May 16, 2004:  "Wild Things in a Dream" by Heather Ross Miller
January 21, 2004:  "With Two Camels and One Donkey" by Robin Becker
July 25, 2003:  "Meridian" by Mia Leonin
May 26, 2003:  "The Flag of My Disposition" by Elaine Sexton
April 14, 2003:  "On the Holy Friar Crossing a Suspension Bridge to Paradise" by Joanna Goodman
February 3, 2003:  "Passing Through the Shadows Of Great Buildings" by Nance Van Winckel
January 6, 2003:  "Bid Me Be the Bird" by Nance Van Winckel
September 26, 2002:  "The Sacrifice" by Jim Simmerman

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