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Today's poem is "Sorrow"

from Rattle

Kwame Dawes is the author of 22 books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern University Press), appeared in 2017. He teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MF A Program, is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.

Other poems by Kwame Dawes in Verse Daily:
June 20, 2018:   "Bones in the Soil" "These empty landscapes; the entanglement..."
July 13, 2013:   "Death" "First your dog dies and you pray..."

Books by Kwame Dawes:

Other poems on the web by Kwame Dawes:
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About Rattle:

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April 3, 2016:   "Apron Strings" by Beth Gylys
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August 10, 2014:   "My Four-Year-Old Asks What Happens When People Die and When I Hesitate She Answers Her Own Question" by Tina Parker
August 9, 2014:   "Watch" by Mike White
November 8, 2013:   "Tabula Rasa" by Matthew Wimberley
November 5, 2013:   "At the Edge of the Hennessey Farm" by Liz N. Clift
November 4, 2013:   "Universe in the Key of Matryoshka" by Ronnie K. Stephens

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