About K. A. Hays and The Journal

Today's poem is "Mother Goose Self-Help"

from The Journal

K. A. Hays' books, Dear Apocalypse (Carnegie Mellon, 2009) and Early Creatures, Native Gods (2012), has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry (2009 and 2011), American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. A former Stadler Fellow and Frost Place poet-in-residence, Hays now teaches at Bucknell.
Other poems by K. A. Hays in Verse Daily:
December 25, 2009: "To Mindless Forces" "who tumble..."
January 15, 2009: "Theology" "The sea, for now, is a blue swag..."
January 8, 2009: "Psalm against a Rapture" "The monks are on a pilgrimage, swinging uphill..."
January 1, 2008: "This Morning After Snow, the Body Scrapes Off" "sludge, is mere action. It strips the sleet from the walk..."
Books by K. A. Hays:

Other poems on the web by K. A. Hays:
"Flood"
"Crow"
Two poems
Two poems
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Other poems by The Journal in Verse Daily:
March 22, 2014: "Polycarp" by Matthew Minicucci
March 20, 2014: "Choose your poison" by Stacy Kidd
March 17, 2014: "Radical Lads, Blisters & Glad Summers" by Brenda Hillman
April 19, 2012: "Prelude" by Oliver Bendorf
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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