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Today's poem is "Minnows"

from River Styx

Hailey Leithauser's book, Swoop, won the Poetry Foundation's 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award and will be published by Graywolf Press in 2013. Her recent journal publications include Antioch Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, River Styx, Subtropics, and TriQuarterly Online.

Other poems by Hailey Leithauser in Verse Daily:
March 25, 2005:  "UFOs" ""First, the facts we know..."
August 14, 2004:  "Daedalus" "No stirring song was..."
July 22, 2004:  "Angel Shark" "Wan oxymoron of a fish, dotted..."

Books by Hailey Leithauser:

Other poems on the web by Hailey Leithauser:
Ten poems
Seven poems
"Fever"
Four poems
"The Failure of Logic"
Three poems

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Other poems from River Styx in Verse Daily:
August 11, 2010:   "Stone Seeking Warmth" by Stephen Dunn
August 9, 2010:   "Puffer Fish" by Charles Harper Webb
July 2, 2009:   "How to Sleep" by Dorianne Laux
August 2, 2008:   "Sunset Knoll" by George Bilgere
July 7, 2007:   "G Is for Not Just One George" by Mary Jo Bang
January 7, 2007:   "G Is for Not Just One George" by Mary Jo Bang
January 3, 2007:   "God's Ode to Creation" by Maura Stanton
July 23, 2006:   "The Devil's Trill" by Timothy Liu
July 18, 2006:   "The Fern Seed" by Cecily Parks
January 25, 2006:   "Single-Lens Reflex" by Debra Kang Dean
January 12, 2006:   "Becoming Involved" by Elizabeth Rees
June 2, 2005:  "Eighty From Seventy-Eight" by William Gass
May 31, 2005:  "Maybe" Myrna Stone
May 30, 2005:  "Chum" Lucia Perillo
July 2, 2004:  "In Ambient Light" by Greg Rappleye
June 30, 2004:  "Darwin Enters the City of His Birth" by Melanie Dusseau
September 4, 2003:  "Luxembourg howtosleeps at Twilight" by James Doyle
September 3, 2003:  "Thank You" by Molly Peacock
March 7, 2003:  "Love, with Trees and Lightning" by Catie Rosemurgy
March 6, 2003:  "A Leopard Hanging in a Tree" by Eric Rawson
March 3, 2003:  "Waiting With a Stranger" by David Simpson
February 25, 2003:  "Fame and Fortune Cookie" by Richard Cecil
December 6, 2002:  Small Ghost Poem by Lawrence Raab
December 4, 2002:  Bride by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
September 16, 2002:  "Advertisement for the Ford Explorer" by David Roderick
July 27, 2002:  "Heroic Roses" by Elton Glaser

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