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Today's poem is "How to Make a Birthday Cake"

from Southwest Review

Sarah Pemberton Strong is the author of a poetry collection, Tour of the Breath Gallery, winner of the 2013 Walt McDonald First-Book Prize, and two novels, The Fainting Room and Burning the Sea. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Southern Review, Poetry Daily, Rattle, River Styx, and The Sun. She has an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and is currently a poetry editor at New Haven Review.

Books by Sarah Pemberton Strong:

Other poems on the web by Sarah Pemberton Strong:
"A Story"
"After 75 Years, She Finally Gets Angry"
Three poems
"Why I Learned The Trade"
"Another Thing That Amazes Me"

Sarah Pemberton Strong's Website.

About Southwest Review:

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Southwest Review * Southern Methodist University * P.O. Box 750374 * Dallas TX 75275-0374
Editor-in-Chief: Willard Spiegelman

Other poems from Southwest Review in Verse Daily:
March 26, 2013:   "When the Men Go Off to War" by Victoria Kelly
March 21, 2013:   "What the Given Says to the Made" by Bruce Bond
May 2, 2012:   "Mailboxes in Late Winter" by Jeffrey Harrison
December 13, 2011:   "Problems with the Dictionary" by Luke Johnson
November 29, 2011:   "The Gleaners" by David Moolten
May 13, 2011:   "Nostalgic" by Paula Bohince
February 22, 2011:   "The Writer" by Anne Pierson Wiese
September 9, 2010:   "Empire of Light" by Bruce Bond
October 13, 2009:   "The Ark in the Window" by Debora Greger
December 10, 2008:   "Metronome" by Sally Van Doren
December 9, 2008:   "How We Didn't Tell Her" by Sandra M. Gilbert
September 6, 2008:   "Deer in the Apples" by Joan Murray
June 8, 2008:   "Even the Dead Do It" by Sue Owen
June 6, 2008:   "What She Thought" by Jennifer Clarvoe
February 11, 2008:   "Domestic Manners of the Americans" by Debora Greger
August 7, 2007:   "Free Fall" by David Wagoner
June 3, 2007:   "Curse" by David Lehman
February 6, 2007:   "Communiqué" by Carol Stevens Kner
December 22, 2006:   "The Man at the Dump" by Brian Swann
December 20, 2006:   "Time and Place" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
September 20, 2006:   "The Man at the Dump" by Stephen Cushman
July 26, 2006:   "Last Poem in May" by Judith Harris
May 23, 2006:   "The Poetry of Bad Weather" by Debora Greger
May 16, 2006:   "Oracle" by Michael Spence
March 13, 2006:   "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" by William Logan
January 7, 2006:   "Grotesque" by Sarah Arvio
September 16, 2005:   "Rosemary" Andrew Frisardi
July 2, 2005:   "Eve Leaves Eden" by Celia Gilbert
June 29, 2005:   "Snowdon Philosophy" Neil Shepard
March 25, 2005:  "UFOs" by Hailey Leithauser
March 24, 2005:  "Tornado/Warning" by Brian Henry
March 23, 2005:  "Variations on a Theme Beginning With Darkness" by Julianne Buchsbaum
November 27, 2004:  "Everything" by Judith Harris
June 22, 2004:  "Money" by Daniel Corrie
June 20, 2004:  "Some Thoughts on the Bergen Street Renaissance" by Tess Taylor
June 17, 2004:  "The Green Going On" by Larry Bradley
April 1, 2004:  "Poison" by Charles Martin
March 30, 2004:  "Rehearsals for the New Order" by Bruce Bond
March 29, 2004:  "For Rent" by Dolores Hayden
December 2, 2003:  "Hay Field on Methodist Hill" by Deborah Warren
December 1, 2003:  "Platonic" byWilliam Wenthe
June 19, 2003:  "The Park Interpreter Speaks" by Leslie Noyes Harrison
June 3, 2003:  "Pink Salmon" by Cecily Parks
March 11, 2003:  "Restoration, Full Moon Garden" by Andrew McCord
March 10, 2003:  "The Dunes" by William Logan
December 22, 2002:  "Georgic" by Michael J. Rosen
December 20, 2002:  "Wisdom Teeth" by Eliza Griswold
December 18, 2002:  Variations on a Postcard by T. S. Eliot by Karl Kirchwey
September 20, 2002:  "Chevron and Swoop" by Cecily Parks

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