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Today's poem is "I Was Sorrow"

from Bennington Review

Anne Marie Rooney is the author of No Beautiful and Spitshine. She has also created a commissioned artist’s book, Weather, Ritual, Black Stars, and written two chapbooks: The Buff, and Shell of an egg in an effort. She has won the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, the Amy Award, the Greg Grummer Poetry Award, the So to Speak Poetry Prize, and the Tupelo Broadside Prize. Her writing has been featured on Verse Daily, Poetry Daily, Lambda Literary, The Feminist Wire, and The Awl, as well as in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies.

Other poems by Anne Marie Rooney in Verse Daily:
January 16, 2019:   "But Animals Embody Gender Even As They Are Beyond It" "Sliding down of towers, moon in tree. Men..."
March 8, 2012:   "Domestic" "There is a house to me. When Saturday leaves a gradient..."
January 9, 2012:   "the Theta Xi chapter" "Confer to comfort: can each girl be first..."
January 23, 2011:   "First Domestic" "There is a house to me. When Saturday leaves a gradient..."

Books by Anne Marie Rooney:

Other poems on the web by Anne Marie Rooney:
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Brink"
Two poems
"Palinode"
Three poems
"Sea change"
"Wreck"
Three poems
"Instructions for Wooing Me (Monster That I Am)"

Anne Marie Rooney's Website.

About Bennington Review:

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Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
April 3, 2021:   "That Life" by Troy Jollimore
April 2, 2021:   "The Centaur" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
March 31, 2021:   "When You're a Star, They Let You Do It" by Emma Bolden
March 30, 2021:   "Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals" by Catherine Pierce
March 28, 2020:   "Advent Poem" by Peter Cooley
March 27, 2020:   "Orange" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 25, 2020:   "Checkpoint" by David Baker
March 24, 2020:   "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" by Alison Pelegrin
March 27, 2019:   Of Course" Lisa Fay Coutley
March 25, 2019:   "Shovel" Jericho Brown
August 7, 2017:   "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel &
August 3, 2017:   "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi
August 2, 2017:   "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
August 1, 2017:   "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson

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