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Today's poem is "Morning Poem"

from Court Green

Matthew Burgess teaches creative writing and composition at Brooklyn College. He has been a poet-in-residence in New York City elementary schools since 2001, and recently he received an award from the Fund for Poetry. His first full-length collection, Slippers for Elsewhere, is forthcoming from Upset Press.

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Court Green * Columbia College Chicago * English Department * 600 S. Michigan Ave * Chicago, IL 60605
Editors: Arielle Greenberg, Tony Trigilio and David Trinidad

Other poems by Court Green in Verse Daily:
April 3, 2012:   "Fall for You" by Todd McCarty
April 2, 2012:   "In Answer to Your Burning Question" by Mary Ann Samyn
March 30, 2012:   "Great Smoky Mountain National Park" by Bob Hicok
March 29, 2012:   "My Francis Bacon essay" by Bob Hicok
March 27, 2012:   "My Suicide" by Maggie Nelson
May 27, 2011:   "'Never Let Your Reader's Attention Wander.'" by Ron Koertge
May 25, 2011:   "Actually Present" by Paul Killebrew
May 23, 2011:   "Flowers, For Frank" by Todd McCarty
May 7, 2010:   "Prayer for Teeth" by James Hoch
May 6, 2010:   "Arise, Therefore" by Elaine Bleakney
February 5, 2009:   Five poems by Sarah J. Sloat
February 3, 2009:   "Hopkins Palindrome" by Aaron Belz
February 2, 2009:   "Scullery" by Sarah J. Sloat
January 31, 2008:   "The History of Bluegrass" by Jeffrey Bahr
January 30, 2008:   "War Story" by Sarah Murphy
January 28, 2008:   "The Blue Sylvia" by Terrance Hayes
March 15, 2007:   "The Cry Bone's Connected to the Why Bone" by Jenny Browne
March 14, 2007:   "Blackout" by Derek Mong
March 13, 2007:   "New Year's Eve" by Nate Pritts

August 17, 2006:   "Runaway Model" by James Shea
August 16, 2006:   "Poem: A Tramp Shining (for Jimmy Webb)" by Richard Fox
August 15, 2006:   "Poem: There Might Be Beauty" by Donald Revell

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