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Today's poem is "Open Letter on Absent Friends"

from Southern Indiana Review

Mary Biddinger's most recent book is Partial Genius. Poems have recently appeared in The Adroit Journal and The Laurel Review, and flash fiction in On the Seawall. She is professor of English at the University of Akron, and poetry editor for the University of Akron Press.

Other poems by Mary Biddinger in Verse Daily:
July 20, 2020:   "Terms of Agreement" "The man who described himself as a contemporary American novelist..."
October 28, 2019:   "Partial Credit Syndrome" "That summer I could not stop sneezing...."
September 18, 2016:   "The Czar" (w/ Jay Robinson) "has a list of regrets. It's short, and ghost-written...."
February 23, 2016:   "Rise of the Novel" "Your novel wintered in the East Village..."
October 2, 2014:   "In Which We Sense That We Are Not Alone" "Various miracles of the most outlandish sort..." br>March 1, 2013:   "A Trick Knee" "My humor was not an ill humor...."
May 9, 2013:   "Risk Management Memo: Small Enterprise" "You wanted to open a cafe called..."
February 29, 2012:   "A Coin-Operated Button-Down Collar" "There are lines at the station..."
August 8, 2011:   "Saint Monica Wishes on the Wrong Star" "Maybe they were both the wrong star...."
July 13, 2010:   "Confluence" "In place of everything that came..."
April 19, 2007:   "Drift" " What you did that day..."

Books by Mary Biddinger:

Other poems on the web by Mary Biddinger:
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems
"Book of Disclosures"
Two poems
"Bone Concept"
Two poems
Three poems
"Risk Management Memo: Above the Law"
Two poems
"Risk Management Memo: Continuing Education"
"28 Staples"
"Girl in Chair"
Two poems
Three poems
"A Children's Story"
Two poems
Two poems
Four poems
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Five poems
Two poems
"An Excursion"
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems

Mary Biddinger's Website.

Mary Biddinger according to Wikipedia.

Mary Biddinger on Twitter.

About Southern Indiana Review:

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Poetry Editor: Matthew R. Graham
Other poems by Southern Indiana Review in Verse Daily:
September 15, 2020:   "I Have So Little to Offer this World" by Sean Thomas Dougherty
July 11, 2020:   "Luster" by Jess Smith
July 9, 2020:   "Alcohol" by Natasha Sajé
July 8, 2020:   "Professor Marva Stewart's Funeral Service at Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel, Paine College" by Kamilah Aisha Moon
July 9, 2019:   "Lion" Brian Tierney
July 8, 2019:   "Composition" Rebecca Hazelton
July 20, 2017:   "Rain, New Year's Eve" by Maggie Smith
July 19, 2017:   "Dr. Harry Harlow's Primate Laboratory" by Sarah Rose Nordgren  "I was cut down like a fruit..."
July 18, 2017:   "Elegy for the Travel Agents" by Christopher Citro
July 13, 2017:   "Silent Anniversary" by George David Clark
July 12, 2017:   "Goldenrod" by Maggie Smith
December 6, 2015:   "O Mercy Me" by Rebecca Gayle Howell
November 27, 2014:   "Event" by Blas Falconer
December 15, 2011:   "Actual Animals" by Brian Tierney
December 14, 2011:   "Endurance" by Richard Jackson
February 26, 2010:   "(it was so hot...)" by Matthew Guenette
July 20, 2009:   "These Gods are Known by the Shapes of Their Teeth" by John M. Anderson
July 12, 2009:   "Wound" by Corinne Wohlford Taff
July 10, 2009:   "Love Note" by E.G. Burrow
July 6, 2007:   "The Cruelest Month" by Grace Bauer

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