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Today's poem is "What Came Before Exile?"

from Hubbub

Patricia Nelson works with the "Activist" group of poets in California, a group founded in the 1930s by Lawrence Hart. "Activist" does not refer to political activism, but to the guiding principle that every word in a poem must be active poetically.

Other poems on the web by Patricia Nelson:
"Cezanne"
Four poems
"Smoke"
"Crazy Otto"
"The Rivers"

Patricia Nelson on Twitter.

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Other poems by Hubbub in Verse Daily:
June 21, 2013:   "Kingfisher" by J.W. Marshall
August 13, 2011:   "Trapeze Swinger" by Andrew Michael Roberts
August 12 2011:   "The Gallery" by Annie Lighthart
October 8, 2010:   "The Dusty Smell of Hay" by Vern Rutsala
March 15, 2010:   "Key" by Miles Waggener
September 18, 2009:   "Elmer Rice's 'The Adding Machine'" by Marvin Bell
September 17, 2009:   "Girl in a Purple Dress " by Dorianne Laux

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