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Today's poem is "Glass Box"
from Steal It Back

Saturnalia Books

Sandra Simonds is the author of The Sonnets, Mother Was a Tragic Girl, and Warsaw Bikini. Her poems have been anthologized in the Best American Poetry 2014 and 2015. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Granta, American Poetry Review, Chicago Review, Fence, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of English and humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville, Georgia.

Other poems by Sandra Simonds in Verse Daily:
March 10, 2015:   "Immense Fields of Work" "Waking up to the gray farm redoubles your doubts...."
March 30, 2012:   "Great Smoky Mountain National Park" "My husband calls me a 'mountain snob.'..."
June 13, 2009:   "Your Own Winnebago" "There's a volcano in my Alaska, a Paris..."
February 4, 2009:   "A Poem for David Schubert" "Went to the valley and it was green went to the valley..."

Books by Sandra Simonds:

Other poems on the web by Sandra Simonds:
Four poems
"The Woman with the Foreign Accent"
Two poems
"Black Leotard"
Three poems
Three poems
"Poetry Is Stupid and I Want to Die"
"A Poem for Criminals and Contruction Workers"
"I Grade Online Humanities Tests"
"I Grade Online Humanities Tests"
"A Poem For Landlords"
Two poems
"Jane Doe #6"
Four poems
Two poems
Three poems
Red Wand
"1984 Pumpkin Pie"
Three poems
"Ratemyprofessor.com"
"Jane Doe #6"
"Feather is Democracy"
"Their Cats"
"The Moth on my Chest"
Three poems
"I am Fat, Frustrated and Cannot Write a Poem"
Two poems

Sandra Simonds's Website.

Sandra Simonds on Twitter.

About Steal It Back:

"These unforgettable new poems sway (meaning both swing and persuade) with the kind of intellectual heft and verbal play only Sandra Simonds cam make."
—Terance Hayes



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