About Ann Townsend and Five Points

Today's poem is "Errors of Beauty"

from Five Points

Ann Townsend is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Dear Delinquent. She is the editor, with David Baker, of Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry. Director of the Creative Writing Program at Denison University, Townsend is also the co-founder of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. She lives and works on her daylily farm in Granville, Ohio.
Other poems by Ann Townsend in Verse Daily:
September 19, 2003: "No Shelter" "At the apex of a wet field..."
June 7, 2003: "The Reliquary" "The world with its dangers..."
August 5, 2002: "Ferry to the Island" "Nothing resists the wind / like the one-legged gull balancing..."
Books by Ann Townsend:

Other poems on the web by Ann Townsend:
"Blue Farm House, ca. 1846"
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
Ann Townsend's Website.
Ann Townsend According to Wikipedia.
Ann Townsend on Twitter.
About Five Points:

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May 2, 2019: "'On the Bodies of Women'" Ina Conradie
April 29, 2019: "Brother" Lisa Julie
September 2, 2016: "Charolais" by John Kinsella
August 31, 2016: "When I Had Died" by Cynthia Huntington
February 9, 2016: "Funeral in Vermont" by Andrea Hollander
November 21, 2015: "Ode to Chronic Insolvency" "I lived in an apartment..."
November 20, 2015: "Ascension" by Philip Levine
March 31, 2015: "Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve" by Stephen Dunn
March 30, 2015: "Passing Phase" by Stephen Dunn
November 9, 2013: "The Rescue" by Chelsea Rathburn
February 7, 2011: "Casals" by Gerald Stern
September 8, 2010: "Converted Church" by Medbh McGuckian
December 15, 2009: "The Opening" by Philip Schultz
May 14, 2009: "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009: "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008: "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008: "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008: "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008: "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007: "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007: "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007: "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006: "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005: "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005: "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005: "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005: "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005: "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005: "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005: "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004: "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003: "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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