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Today's poem is "Om Nom"

from The Literary Review

Alex Lemonis the author of Happy: A Memoir, and three poetry collections. His writing has appeared in Esquire, AGNI, Kenyon Review, BOMB, New England Review, Open City, and Best American Poetry 2008, among others. He lives in Fort Worth, TX.

Other poems by Alex Lemon in Verse Daily:
July 15, 2008:   "Skin On Skin Off Skin On Skin Off" "It was a snake-eyed night and we were doomed..."
June 18, 2008:   "from Lights Strung Lights" "What bangs against the body while neon I sleep..."

Books by Alex Lemon:

Other poems on the web by Alex Lemon:
Two poems
"Kinematics"
Two poems
"Mugging"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems

Alex Lemon's Home Page.

Alex Lemon's Blog.

Alex Lemon according to Wikipedia.

About The Literary Review:

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Poetry Editors: Renée Ashley * David Daniel

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September 28, 2010:   "Mavka #38." by Padma Thornlyre
March 31, 2010:   "Divine Wow:" by Bruce Cohen
March 28, 2010:   "Confession" by Mary Rose O'Reilley
October 23, 2009:   "To Leuconoë" by Erica McAlpine
October 20, 2009:   "When We Decided to Build the Wall" by A.K. Scipioni
July 26, 2009:   "Dust" by Ravi Shankar
May 20, 2009:   "Elmina" by David Mills
January 25, 2009:   "Il pleut" by Chris Glomski
September 28, 2008:   "Morning Edition" by Andrzej Sosnowski, translated by Benjamin Paloff
September 22, 2008:   "Popular Science" by Steve Davenport
March 21, 2008:   "Morning Edition" by Michele Newcomb
March 18, 2008:   "Gloucester" by Ann Snodgrass
October 19, 2007:   "Lywelwyn's Dog" by Peter E. Murphy
October 16, 2007:   "The Night in Question" by Paul Lisicky
April 4, 2007:   "Climograph" by James Grinwis
April 1, 2007:   "So You Want to Be a Teaching Assistant in English" by Jeff Worley
March 31, 2007:   "In 1986 My Uncle Jack Sits On His Front Porch" by William Delman
May 25, 2006:   "Fairy Tale" by Kathleen McGookey
May 22, 2006:   "=" by Lightsey Darst
March 19, 2006:   "Unveiling" by Diane Mehta
March 17, 2006:   "but the house sparrows are . . ." by Jon Woodward
October 7, 2005:   "When Will We Begin?" by Eric Elshtain
October 3, 2005:   "Refugee" Richard Hoffman
May 27, 2005:  "The Gazing-Globe Garden" Jeanne Larsen
May 24, 2005:  "Music Left by Another" George Looney
May 22, 2005:  "Dishonest Elegy for a Sentimental Mood" Melissa Koosmann
May 20, 2005:  "Pas De L'Incise" D. Nurkse
January 27, 2005:  "What Goes On" by Scott Topper
January 26, 2005:  "We Golems" by Michael Demos
December 9, 2004:  "Seeing Through Things" by Diane Mehta
December 8, 2004:  "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" by Renée Ashley
December 7, 2004:  "Fleur de Lys" by Daniel Mark Epstein
December 6, 2004:  "Animals at My House" by Eduardo Chirinos, translated by G. J. Racz
October 9, 2004:  "Prose Poems" by Louise Ho
May 19, 2004:  "There Must be Music or Fear" by Rodney Wittner
May 18, 2004:  "Pythia: The Process" by Rita Signorelli-Pappas
February 4, 2004:  "Insomnia" by Rick Mulkey
May 28, 2003:  "The Garden" by David Daniel
January 17, 2003:  "The Shelter in Children's Stories" by Stephen Frech
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