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Today's poem is "The Space Traveler's Tense"

from Gulf Coast

Benjamin S. Grossberg is an assistant professor of English at the University of Hartford, where he teaches creative writing. His books are Sweet Core Orchard (University of Tampa Press, 2009), winner of the 2008 Tampa Review Prize and a Lambda Literary Award, and Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath (Ashland Poetry Press, 2007).

Other poems by Benjamin S. Grossberg in Verse Daily:
February 8, 2008:   "One Last Thought" "And what if one finally can't be found? What if Leander..."
December 20, 2006:   "Time and Place" " Because I seem unable to get a handle..."
October 13, 2006:   "Stepping on the Dog" " The high squeal, the instant retraction..."

Books by Benjamin S. Grossberg:

Other poems on the web by Benjamin S. Grossberg:
Two poems
"The Space Traveler and God"
Two poems
"Like the Back of My Hand"

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 24, 2010:   "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen" by Jack Boettcher
December 23, 2010:   "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone
September 2, 2010:   "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly
September 1, 2010:   "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks
December 10, 2009:   "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
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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