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Today's poem is "Near Misses"

from CutBank

Alysse McCanna is pursuing her PhD in English at Oklahoma State University. She is Associate Editor of Pilgrimage Magazine and holds an MFA from Bennington College. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Poet Lore, TriQuarterly, Lunch Ticket, Barrow Street, and other journals. Her chapbook Pentimento is forthcoming from Gold Line Press. She lives in Stillwater, OK, where she and her husband bask in the heat of the prairie and tend to their growing menagerie.

Books by Alysse McCanna:

Other poems on the web by Alysse McCanna:
"Reckoning"
"Learning the Tarot"

Alysse McCanna's Website.

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Other poems by Cutbank in Verse Daily:
October 8, 2019:   "Bitter Candytuft" by Danielle Shuster
October 7, 2019:   "English 206" by John Koethe
July 19, 2019:   "Olivine" Virginia Smith Rice
August 15, 2017:   "American Quartet" by Abby Minor
March 9, 2015:   "Suddenly a Wayward to Thinking Words" by Jake Syersak
March 6, 2015:   "Escaped Housewife Gives Three Good Reasons for Taking Up the Bagpipes" by Karen Craigo
November 19, 2014:   "Elegy in which a Bird Appears" by Jody Rambo
November 17, 2014:   "Iithey" by David Tomas Martinez
May 7, 2014:   "Repent" by Gary L. McDowell
April 29, 2014:   "[While I—Breathless...]" by Rebecca Aronson
October 26, 2013:   Two Poems by Abraham Smith
October 21, 2013:   "Neolithic Revolution" by Ali Shapiro
July 11, 2013:   "Karaoke" by Brandon Kreitler
July 10, 2013:   "Oquossoc" by Sara Gelston
February 25, 2013:   "Hearing is a Talent That Must be Honed" by Brianna Noll

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