Today's poem is
"Observations from The Base"
from Gulf Coast
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Today's poem is
"Observations from The Base"
from Gulf Coast
Julie Bloemeke
's poetry manuscript recently placed as a semifinalist in three book prizes: the 2015
Hudson Prize through Black Lawrence Press, the 2015 Washington Prize through the Word Works,
and the 2014 Crab Orchard Poetry Series First Book Award. A graduate of the Bennington Writing
Seminars and a 2015 fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, her work has appeared in
Chautauqua Literary Journal, Drunken Boat, Poet Lore, Ihe Great Gatsby Anthology, and elsewhere. In
February 2015, her ekphrastic work on Philip C. Curtis was selected for a limited edition chapbook
collaboration between the Phoenix Museum of Art and Four Chambers Press. In May she also won
the 2015 ekphrastic poetry competition at the Toledo Museum of Art where her work will be on view
with the Claude Monet collection through September.
Other poems on the web by Julie Bloemeke:
Five poems
"Self Shot"
About Gulf Coast:
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Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Art *
Department of English *
University of Houston *
Houston, TX 77204-3013
Poetry Editors: Lauren Berry, Anna Journey and Kent Shaw
Other poems by Gulf Coast in Verse Daily:
February 17 2016: "The Horses" by Kenneth Hart
February 15 2016: "Observations from The Base" by Ocean Vuong
December 20, 2015: "Do Birds Sing from Sheer Exuberance" by Paul Jenkins
December 18, 2015: "Pond" by Bianca Lech
September 10, 2014: "Sol in Leo" by Sam Ross
September 9, 2014: "Exodus" by Robert Whitehead
September 8, 2014: "Spontaneous Human Combustion" by Erica Wright
May 10, 2013: "animal, vegetable, mineral" by Marty McConnell
May 9, 2013: "Risk Management Memo: Small Enterprise" by Mary Biddinger
August 23, 2012: "Brown Refrigerator" by Rick Barot
August 18, 2012: "Dumb Girl" by Lissa Cattrone
August 15, 2012: "From 'Elegy in X Parts'" by Matt Rasmussen
August 14, 2012: "Wright Park" by Rick Barot
August 13, 2012: Two poems by Simone Muench
December 21, 2011: "Day for Years of Distress" by Elaine Bleakney
December 20, 2011: "A Dedication to the Rich Is in the Ark" by Robert Ostrom
December 19, 2011: "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone" by Lily Brown
November 7, 2011: "The Space Traveler's Tense" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
December 24, 2010: "A Segment of Irradiated Mangosteen" by Jack Boettcher
December 23, 2010: "Tulip is the bravest flower, I mean bird." by y madrone
September 2, 2010: "His Theogony" by Timothy Donnelly
September 1, 2010: "Speculatrix at the Mountaintop Observatory" by Cecily Parks
December 10, 2009: "Antietam" by Sandra Beasley
December 9, 2009: "Pitbull" by Kimberly Johnson
December 3, 2009: "from 1977-2050" by Zachary Schomburg
May 15, 2009: "Talking About the Wind" by Katie Peterson
May 11, 2009: "Little Apocalypse" by Rachel Zucker
May 8, 2009: "Department of Telescopes" by Joshua Poteat
November 4, 2008: "We Are Taking the Trees" by Sarah Wolfson
November 3, 2008: "Freud's Container" by Terese Svoboda
November 1, 2008: "Spanish Fruit Bomb" by Mary Ruefle
October 30, 2008: "Red" by Allan Petterson
October 29, 2008: "My Heart to Fear" by Heather McHugh
June 15, 2008: "The End" by Victoria Chang
June 14, 2008: "Morality" by Susie Meserve
June 10, 2008: "First Date, and Still Very, Very Lonely" by Brenda Shaughnessy
March 10, 2008: "Reclamation" by Bob Hicok
April 18, 2005: "Sonnet" by Karen Volkman
April 4, 2005: "Figures We're Meant to Believe In" by George Looney
March 14, 2005: "The Museum of Being Born" by Jennifer Militello
