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Today's poem is "In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket"

from Rattle

Carol Potter's fifth book of poems, Some Slow Bees was published in April of 2015. Her fourth book of poems, Otherwise Obedient (Red Hen Press, 2008) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT poetry. Short History of Pets won the 1999 Cleveland State Poetry Center Award, and the Balcones Award. Previous books are Upside Down in the Dark, 1995, and Before We Were Born, 1990—both from Alice James Books. Potter's poems have appeared in Field, The Iowa Review, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, The Journal, Prairie Schooner, The Women’s Review of Books Lit from Within, an anthology of Alice James poets, and many other journals and anthologies including most recently, Hotel Amerika, Green Mountains Review, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, and The Los Angeles Review. Potter is also on the board of Gertrude.

Other poems by Carol Potter in Verse Daily:
May 28, 2015:   "Distant Buffaloes" "How you feel about any one thing at any given moment..."

Books by Carol Potter:

Other poems on the web by Carol Potter:
"Nothing But Blue Skies"
Two poems
Two poems
"The Big Fork"
Two poems

Carol Potter's Website.

Carol Potter According to Wikipedia.

About Rattle:

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