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Today's poem is "When a Man and a Woman Are Alone Together, the Third Person Present Is Satan"

from Colorado Review

Claire Sylvester Smith was a Hopwood Award winner in poetry at the University of Michigan, and recent poems of hers can be found or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Ninth Letter, and the American Poetry Review. She is currently a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.

About Colorado Review:

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Colorado Review * 9105 Campus Delivery * Department of English * Colorado State University * Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-9105
Editor: Matthew Cooperman, Donald Revell, Sasha Steensen

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Colorado Review * 9105 Campus Delivery * Department of English * Colorado State University * Fort Collins, Colorado 80523
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All other poems from Colorado Review that have appeared on Verse Daily:
December 23, 2011:   "Cursive" by Elizabeth Willis
December 22, 2011:   "Where They Feed Their Children to Kings" by John Gallaher
September 28, 2011:   "Portrayal, X-Ray" by Cori A. Winrock
September 26, 2011:   "The Strategy" by Kascha Semonovitch
June 23, 2011:   "The Commendation" by Dean Young
August 21, 2010:   "Conditionals" by Ryan Flaherty
December 23, 2009:   "Untitled" by Ryan Flaherty (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)
August 29, 2009:   "Repititions" by Jennifer Moxley
April 6, 2009:   "The People on the Bus" by Stephen Burt
April 4, 2009:   "A List of Possibilities in an Uncertain Order" by Jack Ridl
April 2, 2009:   "Iridescent, One Might Say" by Mary Ann Samyn
March 31, 2009:   "Secret Sea" by Nathan Parker

March 30, 2009:   "Hare" by Joseph Campana
January 6, 2009:   "Ontology and the Platypus" by Kathy Fagan
August 8, 2008:   "Smithereens" by L. S. Klatt
August 6, 2008:   "Diorama with a 20-Watt Bulb Inside" by John Isles
April 18, 2008:   "Bends" by Ron Paul Salutsky
April 15, 2008:   "Schrödinger Reincarnated" by Dana Curtis
January 4, 2008:   "You'll See a Sailboat" by Jaswinder Bolina
January 2, 2008:   "Furlough" by Leslie Williams
December 23, 2007:   "Eye Contact" by Craig Morgan Teicher
December 17, 2007:   "In a Better World Than This" by James Cushing
November 19, 2007:   "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 22, 2007:   "Fighting" by Dana Goodyear
November 21, 2007:   "Flicker" by Joanna Klink
November 20, 2007:   "Poem Beside Itself" by Graham Foust
November 19, 2007:   "Sestina with Random Peace Words" by Monica Raymond
November 8, 2007:   "If You Should Care For Me" by Lacy Schutz
October 29, 2007:   "Would That We Had" by DLacy Schutz

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