C. J. Sage edits The National Poetry Review and The National Poetry Review Press. Her poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Shenandnah, and Threepenny Review, among other journals. Her latest book is The San Simeon Zebras.

Other poems by C. J. Sage in Verse Daily:
October 30, 2014:   "Melt" "To lose a certain figuration..."
January 9, 2014:   "Manifesto" "Before I'd fallen through..."
July 22, 2013:   "The Distant Future" "When it happens—something will..."
August 20, 2012:   "Self-Portrait as a Bluebird's Open Beak" "No blue at all..."
September 12, 2011:   "Crowd Forming a Mob" "Before the egg shop closed..."
June 3, 2010:   "Landscapes with Elephant Seals and Umbrellas" "In the water solitary creatures..."
April 8, 2010:   "No Wasn't Full" "No wasn't full..."
November 24, 2008:   "July" "I was wondering dollars half-hearted..."
October 2, 2008:   "Goat" "Hoofed culler of things ignored..."
June 19, 2008:   "Some Coin" "Inside, she was hendecagonic...."
March 31, 2008:   "Ostriches" "When my father held his head from the sand for a time..."
March 16, 2007:   "The San Simeon Zebras" by C. J. Sage
January 26, 2006:   "The Dark Pelican" " Her nest is crude (though on the shore it rests..."
November 2, 2005:   "Choir" by C.J. Sage
September 8, 2004:  "Managing Myth" "From time to time the red-winged blackbirds tumble..."
December 31, 2003:  "Litany for Treetops" "The way the wind breaks across a giraffe's neck..."
September 17, 2002:  "Birth Ghazal" and "Bridge Ghazal" "I want to say before I die: my heart is clear; my hands, reborn...."
August 27, 2002:  "Sonnet For Carryhouse and Keeper" "I met a man who'd kept a snail as pet...."

Books by C.J. Sage:

Other poems on the web by C.J. Sage:
"A Great Divide"
Four poems
"Sea Canaries"
"Landscapes with Elephant Seals and Umbrellas"
3 poems
"Needle"
Two poems
"Peripetia, or Flowers for Everyone"
"Memorandum on Human Being"
"The Terza Rima of Bird and Fish"
"Safari, Safari"
Two poems
Two poems

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