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Today's poem is "Dog Days"

from New Orleans Review

Matthew Guenette is the author of two poetry collections. His first book, Sudden Anthem, won the 2007 American Poetry Journal Prize from Dream Horse Press. His second, American Busboy an Editor's Choice in the 2010 Akron Press Poetry Series, is forthcoming in 2011. He lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin.

Other poems by Matthew Guenette in Verse Daily:
February 26, 2010:   "(it was so hot...)" "It was so hot..."
July 3, 2008:   "Vortex: The Super-Sized Supermarket" "...I've been elbowed in the ribs, made to ask..."
April 8, 2008:   "Christina Aguilera has a blue" "Christina Aguilera has a blue..."

Books by Matthew Guenette:

Other poems on the web by Matthew Guenette:
"Ten Poems on Marriage Plus a Wish"
"Future Poem"
Three poems
"Playing Poker with the Gods"
"Nickname Letter"

Matthew Guenette's Blog.

About New Orleans Review:

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New Orleans Review * Box 195 * Loyola University * New Orleans, LA 70118
Poetry Editor: Mark Yakich

Other poems from New Orleans Review in Verse Daily:

August 21   "Enlistment" by Joshua Edwards
March 8, 2011:   "Ascent" by Mary Austin Speaker
September 7, 2010:   "City You Won't Come Back To" by Anne Shaw
September 6, 2010:   "Flesh" by C. McAllister Williams
April 13, 2010:   "Complaint" by Mary Leader
April 10, 2010:   "Slow Dance Music" by Tom C. Hunley
April 8, 2010:   "No Wasn't Full" by C. J. Sage
July 25, 2009:   "Love After Lovely Leaves" by Andrew McCarron
July 24, 2009:   "Then From Our Green Branch" by Oni Buchanan
October 14, 2008:   "Nothing to It" by Chris Forhan
May 5, 2008:   "Obey Gravity" by Cynthia Arrieu-King & Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
May 1, 2008:   "In Support of Corporate Farms" by Cody Lumpkin
April 28, 2008:   "Preemptive Elegy" by Paul Guest
January 3, 2008:   "'King,' 'Queen,' etc." by Alison Powell
January 1, 2008:   "This Morning After Snow, the Body Scrapes Off" by K. A. Hays
June 1, 2007:   "Owl" by Endi Hartigan

May 31, 2007:   "Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages" by Kimberly Johnson
November 20, 2006:   "Recapitulation" by Deborah Tall
November 13, 2006:   "Upshot" by Deborah Tall
May 20, 2006:   "the caveat onus ::: twenty-three" by Dave Brinks
August 27, 2005:   "I Lived in the Forest" by Emmy Hunter
August 25, 2005:   "from Crossed, Cross, Crossing" Esther Lee
August 23, 2005:   "Paradise" James Capozzi
February 27, 2005:  "After The Accident" by Molly Brodak
February 22, 2005:  "Anonymous Fox" by Naomi Feigelson Chase
February 21, 2005:  "Antihelion: Conception of the Yellow House" by Robin Behn
August 19, 2004:  "Gacela of Animal Wisdom" by J. P. Dancing Bear
August 18, 2004:  "Even So" by Susanne Kort
August 17, 2004:  "His Dossier from Babel" by Andrew Miller
August 14, 2004:  "Daedalus" by Hailey Leithauser
January 18, 2004:  "The Idea of Nothing" by Sue Owen
January 14, 2004:  "Muster" by Ander Monson

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