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Today's poem is "Rain, New Year's Eve"

from Southern Indiana Review

Maggie Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Weep Up (Tupelo Press, September 2017), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Lamp of the Body. Smith is also the author of three prizewinning chapbooks. Her poems appear in The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Guernica, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. Public Radio International called it “the official poem of 2016.”

Other poems by Maggie Smith in Verse Daily:
July 12, 2017:   "Goldenrod" "I'm no botanist. If you're the color of sulfur..."
March 28, 2017:   "Love Poem" "What can I give you? You have plenty..."
December 12, 2008:   "When Worlds Collide (1951)" "If Dr. Bronson's calculations prove to be correct..."

Books by Maggie Smith:

Other poems on the web by Maggie Smith:
"Good Bones"
"The Train Book, I Think of Lisa"
"Seven Disappointments (2)"
"Let's Not Begin"
Three poems
"Mew Year Sestina"
"Stitches"
"Doppelganger"
Three poems

Maggie Smith's Website.

Maggie Smith According to Wikipedia.

Maggie Smith on Twitter.

Maggie Smith on Facebook.

About Southern Indiana Review:

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Poetry Editor: Matthew R. Graham
Other poems by Southern Indiana Review in Verse Daily:
July 19, 2017:   "Dr. Harry Harlow's Primate Laboratory" by Sarah Rose Nordgren  "I was cut down like a fruit..."
July 18, 2017:   "Elegy for the Travel Agents" by Christopher Citro
July 13, 2017:   "Silent Anniversary" by George David Clark
July 12, 2017:   "Goldenrod" by Maggie Smith
December 6, 2015:   "O Mercy Me" by Rebecca Gayle Howell
November 27, 2014:   "Event" by Blas Falconer
December 15, 2011:   "Actual Animals" by Rebecca Hazelton
December 14, 2011:   "Endurance" by Richard Jackson
February 26, 2010:   "(it was so hot...)" by Matthew Guenette
July 20, 2009:   "These Gods are Known by the Shapes of Their Teeth" by John M. Anderson
July 12, 2009:   "Wound" by Corinne Wohlford Taff
July 10, 2009:   "Love Note" by E.G. Burrow
July 6, 2007:   "The Cruelest Month" by Grace Bauer

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