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Today's poem is "Later, I Learned to Speak Without a Tongue."

from Colorado Review

Lisa Allen Ortiz is author of Guide to the Exhibit, the 2016 Perugia Press Prize winne1; as well as two chapbooks: Turns Out and Self Portrait as a Clock. Her work has been featured in the Best New Poets series and on Verse Daily. She lives in Santa Cruz.

Other poems by Lisa Allen Ortiz in Verse Daily:
December 20, 2016:   "Ursa Major" "The bears again..."
January 11, 2014:   "Acre" "If we had one, I said, we could grow lettuce and peas..."
October 18, 2013:   "The Ventriloquist's Heart" "At dinner I lean in close...."
October 31, 2009:   "The Tortoise Survives the Fire" "He's at my friend's house now...."

Books by Lisa Allen Ortiz:

Other poems on the web by Lisa Allen Ortiz:
"Lisa Allen Ortiz"
Three poems
"Terrarium"
Four poems
"Day of the Dead"
Three poems
Three poems
"On Science"
"Ivory Bill"
"Zephyr's Grief"
"Zephyr's Grief"
"Why We're Going to Church"
"Manifest"

Lisa Allen Ortiz's Website.

About Colorado Review:

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Poetry Editor: Brian Barker * Nicky Beer

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February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell Other poems by Colorado Review in Verse Daily:
January 31, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015:   "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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