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Today's poem is "Confession"

from the Southern Review

Carrie Shipers has published poems in Crab Orchard Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and North American Review. She is the author of two chapbooks, Ghost-Writing and Rescue Conditions, and a full-length collection, Ordinary Mourning.

Other poems by Carrie Shipers in Verse Daily:
June 1, 2010:   "Sarah Winchester Speaks" "No one knew what haunted me..."

Books by Carrie Shipers:

Other poems on the web by Carrie Shipers:
Three poems
"Medical History"
"Target Practice"
"War Stories"
"Anti-Anxiety Poem"
"Apology for Being Small"
Two poems
"The Woman Who Can’t Forget: Alzheimer’s Disease"

About the Southern Review:

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Editors: Jessica Faust and Cara Blue Adams

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January 11, 2013:   "Mothering" by Michael McCarthy
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January 8, 2013:   "feeder" by Beth Bachmann
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November 8, 2012:   "Somehow, We Are a We" by Kimberly Grey
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September 21, 2012:   "Why Our Mothers Panic" by Sarah Kain Gutowski
February 19, 2012:   "Elegy for a Game" by Mary Ruefle
February 16, 2012:   "Words, what is the word, matter" by Bob Hicok
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