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Today's poem is "Seascape with Evacuating"

from Gulf Coast

Bethany Schultz Hurst is the author of Miss Lost Nation, winner of the Robert Dana-Anhinga Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2016 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Hurst's work has been selected to appear in Best American Poetry 2015 and in journals such as American Literary Review, Drunken Boat, The Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, and Sixth Finch. She lives in Pocatello, Idaho, where she teaches creative writing at Idaho State University.

Books by Bethany Schultz Hurst:

Other poems on the web by Bethany Schultz Hurst:
"Sweet and Golden Soup"
"Bones That Have Been Reassembled and Displayed in Museums throughout the World"
"A Sturdy House"
"Fruits of Our Labor"
"its strange and swollen borders,"
"Soup Bone and Juniper Tree"
"Etiquette for the Soft Skinned"

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:
March 22, 2017:   "Archival Footage of a Necessary Outburst" by Anne Cecelia Holmes
February 12, 2017:   "The Guitar" by Austin Allen
February 19, 2016:   "After the Girl" by Amy Woolard
February 18 2016:   "Observations from The Base" by Julie Bloemeke
February 17 2016:   "The Horses" by Kenneth Hart
February 15 2016:   "Abuelo" 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

March 9, 2008:   "Parable of a Blade of Grass" by Roger Reeves
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

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