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Today's poem is "Matrophobia"

from Iron Horse Literary Review

Traci Brimhall is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, The Believer, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She's an associate professor and Director of Creative Writing at Kansas State University (the Little Apple).

Other poems by Traci Brimhall in Verse Daily:
December 4, 2017:   "Saudade" by Traci Brimhall   "Each time I start, the explorers and tyrants..."
June 27, 2013:   "The Watchtower" by Traci Brimhall & Brynn Saito   "You could guard the city if you could bear..."
December 3, 2010:   "Aubade with a Broken Neck" by Traci Brimhall   "The first night you don't come home..."

Books by Traci Brimhall:

Other poems on the web by Traci Brimhall:
Five poems
Five poems
Four poems
"Shelter In Place"
Two poems
Five poems
"Vive, Vive"
Three poems
Two poems
"Oh Wonder"
"Aubade in Which The Bats Tried to Warn Me"
"Family Portrait As Denoument"

Traci Brimhall's Website.

Traci Brimhall According to Wikipedia.

Traci Brimhall on Twitter.

About Iron Horse Literary Review:

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November 25, 2020:   "Our Last House" by Sarah Carey
November 24, 2020:   "Matrophobia" by Chris Ellery
February 19, 2020:   "Venus's Answer to Cupid's Complaint" by Jade Hurter
February 18, 2020:   "On Voting for Barak Obama with a Nat Turner T Shirt On" by Reginald Dwayne Betts
February 10, 2020:   "At the End of My Marriage, I Think of Something My Daughter Said about Trees" by Maggie Smith
April 2, 2019:   "There Is a Snake" Bess Cooley
April 1, 2019:   "Talking to Other Women after the Election" Katherine Riegel
February 22, 2016:   "Benediction Ending with Stray Dogs" by Andrew Miller
February 21, 2016:   "Chorus" by John E. Glowney
December 16, 2014:   "July 13, 1946" by Jessica Jacobs
June 9, 2014:   "Pulling the Arrow Out" by Carl Phillips
June 8, 2012:   "Winter and Spring" by Randolph Thomas
March 15, 2012:   "Places that have become me" by Bob Hicok
June 11, 2010:   "Monster-Life" by Nathan Anderson
June 24, 2009:   "Resurrection Fern" by Sara Johnson
June 21, 2009:   "The Child and the Parent" by Ted Kooser
June 20, 2009:   "The Fugitive Kind" by Austin Hummell
January 18, 2009:   "Ovid in Exile" by John Hart
January 17, 2009:   "Possum Nocturne" by Doug Ramspeck
October 13, 2008:   "Over a Ballpoint" by Allan Peterson
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" by Randolph Thomas
May 14, 2008:   "Lost in the Heart of the Concert" by Pattiann Rogers
February 28, 2008:   "Fold, Fold" by Mary Crow
February 25, 2008:   "Anubis" by Alan Shapiro
September 19, 2007:   "Elemental: Nitrogen" by Suzanne Heyd
May 18, 2007:   "Autumn Again" by Michael Pettit
December 16, 2006:   "Sky: An Inquiry" by Leslie Ullman
April 12, 2005:  "Cardinal Virtue" by Nicky Beer
September 7, 2004:  "Tantalus" by Robert B. Shaw
March 28, 2004:  "Moving the Moon" by Deborah Bogen
September 22, 2003:  "Aubade" by Richard Foerster
September 20, 2003:  "Goodwill" by Elizabeth McLagan

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