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Today's poem is "Risk Management Memo: Small Enterprise"

from Gulf Coast

Mary Biddinger is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books 2007), Saint Monica (Black Lawrence Press 2011), O Holy Insurgency (Black Lawrence Press 2012), and A Sunny Place with Adequate Water (Black Lawrence Press 2014). She is also co-editor of The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Barrelhouse; Bat City Review; Blackbird; Forklift, Ohio; H_NMG_N; Pleiades; and Redivider. She teaches literature and poetry writing at The University of Akron, where she edits Barn Owl Review, the Akron Series in Poetry, and the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics.

Other poems by Mary Biddinger in Verse Daily:
March 1, 2013:   "A Trick Knee" "My humor was not an ill humor...."
February 29, 2012:   "A Coin-Operated Button-Down Collar" "There are lines at the station..."
August 8, 2011:   "Saint Monica Wishes on the Wrong Star" "Maybe they were both the wrong star...."
July 13, 2010:   "Confluence" "In place of everything that came..."
April 19, 2007:   "Drift" " What you did that day..."

Books by Mary Biddinger:

Other poems on the web by Mary Biddinger:
"Risk Management Memo: Continuing Education"
"28 Staples"
"Girl in Chair"
Two poems
Three poems
"A Children's Story"
Two poems
Two poems
Four poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Five poems
Two poems
"An Excursion"
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems

Mary Biddinger's Website.

Mary Biddinger's Blog.

Mary Biddinger according to Wikipedia.

Mary Biddinger on Twitter.

About Gulf Coast:

About Gulf Coast:

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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art * Department of English * University of Houston * Houston, TX 77204-3013
Poetry Editors: Lauren Berry, Anna Journey and Kent Shaw
Other poems by Gulf Coast in Verse Daily:
August 23, 2012:   "Brown Refrigerator" by Rick Barot
August 18, 2012:   "Dumb Girl" by Lissa Cattrone
August 15, 2012:   "From 'Elegy in X Parts'" by Matt Rasmussen
August 14, 2012:   "Wright Park" by Rick Barot
August 13, 2012:   Two poems by Simone Muench
December 21, 2011:   "Day for Years of Distress" by Elaine Bleakney
December 20, 2011:   "A Dedication to the Rich Is in the Ark" by Robert Ostrom
December 19, 2011:   "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone" by Lily Brown
November 7, 2011:   "The Space Traveler's Tense" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
December 24, 2010:   "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen" by Jack Boettcher
December 23, 2010:   "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone
September 2, 2010:   "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly
September 1, 2010:   "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks
December 10, 2009:   "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
December 9, 2009:   "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson
December 3, 2009:   "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg
May 15, 2009:   "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson
May 11, 2009:   "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker
May 8, 2009:   "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat
November 4, 2008:   "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson
November 3, 2008:   "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda
November 1, 2008:   "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle
October 30, 2008:   "Red" by Allan Petterson
October 29, 2008:   "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh
June 15, 2008:   "The End" by Victoria Chang
June 14, 2008:   "Morality" by Susie Meserve
June 10, 2008:   "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 10, 2008:   "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok

March 9, 2008:   "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves
April 18, 2005:  "Sonnet" by Karen Volkman
April 4, 2005:  "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" by George Looney
March 14, 2005:  "The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello

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