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Today's poem is "Backward-Spreading Brightness"

from Colorado Review

Christopher Kondrich is the author of Contrapuntal (Parlor Press, 2013). New poems also appear or are forthcoming in American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Guernica, Jerry, the Paris-American, and Washington Square. A recent winner of the Paris-American Reading Series Contest, he is a PhD candidate at the University of Denver and an editor for Denver Quarterly.

Other poems by Christopher Kondrich in Verse Daily:
February 14, 2013:   "[I was always one for]" "I was always one for..."
February 8, 2012:   from Canto Fermo "I came to an embankment..."

Books by Christopher Kondrich:

Other poems on the web by Christopher Kondrich:
Three poems
"Asylum"
from Canto Fermo
from Canto Fermo
from Contrapuntal

Christopher Kondrich's Website.

Christopher Kondrich on Twitter.

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

All other poems from Colorado Review that have appeared on Verse Daily:
March 5, 2014:   "In the Dumps" by Heather Christle
March 4, 2014:   "Leaving Labor and Delivery" by Erin Rodoni
March 3, 2014:   "Proof" by Ashley Seitz Kramer
May 16, 2013:   "Words Against the Walls of the City" by Bruce Bond
April 5, 2013:   "Valediction Lessons: Flora" by Bruce Bond
March 4, 2013:   "Another Pastoral A" by Aaron McCollough
November 2, 2012:   "Just Vanilla" "She was a pistol...."
October 31, 2012:   "After the Feast at Year's End" by Brenda Hillman
October 30, 2012:   "Une Lettre de la Mer de Glace" by Jo Ann Clark
July 17, 2012:   "Sleep Song" "I want to remember the picture..."
July 16, 2012:   "When a Man and a Woman Are Alone Together, the Third Person Present Is Satan" by Claire Sylvester Smith
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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