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Today's poem is "While Night Still Keeps Us"

from Copper Nickel

Carl Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. His next book, Then the War, will be out in 2022 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Other poems by Carl Phillips in Verse Daily:
August 11, 2020:   "In a Low Voice, Slowly" "So stubborn, and as if almost necessary, this..."
September 9, 2016:   "Darkening, Brightening" "Listening's not enough, you've gotta watch them, that way they feel..."
April 22, 2016:   "His Grace Asleep and Waking" "- Despite having been raised mostly to cause..."
November 1 2015:   "Meditation: On Being a Mystery to Oneself" "The oars of the ship called Late Forgiveness lift..."
June 9, 2014:   "Pulling the Arrow Out" "Mumbling something about how..."
August 30, 2007:   "Reciprocity" " Rest, now. All that ruggedness, blood-pain, and blindness-to-its..."
July 18, 2002:  "Minotaur" "What stalked the room was never envy...."

Books by Carl Phillips:

Other poems on the web by Carl Phillips:
Twenty-nine poems
Two poems
"Crossing"
"Wake Up"
Two poems
Ten poems
Three poems
Nine poems

Carl Phillips According to Wikipedia.

Carl Phillips on Twitter.

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Other poems by Copper Nickel in Verse Daily:
November 5, 2020:   "While Night Still Keeps Us" by Carl Phillips
November 4, 2020:   "The Year With No Address" by Megan Alpert
November 3, 2020:   "Why to Save the World" by Lisa Fay Coutley
June 1, 2020:   "Book of Dolls 2" by Bruce Bond
May 28, 2020:   "Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve" by Andrea Cohen
May 27, 2020:   "Marvelous Things without Number" by Troy Jollimore
May 26, 2020:   "The Blind" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
November 20, 2019:   "December" by David Baker
November 19, 2019:   "Childhood" by Daniel Lawless
November 18, 2019:   "Dear Jolene," by Natasha Sajé
February 19, 2019:   "Storm of the Century" Jill Osier
February 18, 2019:   "Poem for the Woods" Catherine Pierce
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
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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