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Today's poem is "Prelude"

from The Journal

Oliver Bendorf is an MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he holds the Martha Meier-Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry. His poems are in recent or forthcoming issues of Ninth Letter, Anti-, PANK, The Journal, and others. A Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry and recent Pushcart nominee, he also writes for Original Plumbing magazine.

Other poems by Oliver Bendorf in Verse Daily:
December 24, 2011:   "Dog Days" "When my camera looks up at November, it shows me..."

Other poems on the web by Oliver Bendorf:
"Sonnet Despite"

Oliver Bendorf's Website.

Oliver Bendorf on Twitter.

About The Journal:

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The Journal * Department of English * The Ohio State University * 164 West 17th Avenue * Columbus, Ohio 43210
Poetry Editor: Kathy Fagan

Other poems by The Journal in Verse Daily:
April 18, 2012:   "May I?" by Elisabeth Murawski
April 17, 2012:   Breather by Alec Hershman
September 16, 2011:   "Halloween" by Christopher Salerno
September 14, 2011:   "Tips of the Slung" by Amy Schrader
September 12, 2011:   "Crowd Forming a Mob" by C.J. Sage
July 14, 2010:   "Just Like Thumbelina's Blues" by Sarah Kathryn Moore
July 13, 2010:   "Confluence" by Mary Biddinger
January 15, 2010:   "His Other Car Was a Train" by Nance Van Winckel
July 4, 2009:   "Deeply Impersonal" by Bob Hicok
June 30, 2009:   "Inland Song" by Lesley Wheeler
January 29, 2009:   "The Park in Winter " by Stacy Kidd
January 26, 2009:   "Double Down" by Kary Wayson
January 22, 2009:   "Memory is a Disease of Animals" by Marc McKee
January 21, 2009:   "Getaway" by Clay Matthews
January 20, 2009:   "Nest" by Katy Didden
January 13, 2008:   "Area 25" by Catherine Wing
June 22, 2007:   "Prophecy: Snow White" by Donna Prinzmetal
June 18, 2007:   "Area 25" by Steven Cramer
January 9, 2007:   "Area 25" by Betsy Wheeler
January 5, 2007:   "Temptation to Believe" by Andrea Cohen
January 4, 2007:   "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" by John Gallaher
January 2, 2007:   "Easter, Looking Westward" by Kimberly Johnson
March 17, 2004:  "What's Shorting Out the Good Show" by Martha W. Ostheimer
March 15, 2004:  "Red and Black Days" by Robin Behn

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