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Today's poem is "Earth Shovel"

from The Cincinnati Review

Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), and Of Air and Earth (Unicorn Press, 2019). His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Crazyhorse, Five Points, The Southern Review, The Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize, as well as other journals and anthologies. He is a professor of English at Coastal Carolina University.

Other poems by Dan Albergotti in Verse Daily:
February 3, 2020:   "The Elect" "Like the vole, I have wandered a field..."
December 2, 2019:   "A Sort of Art" "They made a sort of music with their feet..."
August 16, 2019:   "To Sleep" "They die so many times before our eyes..."
July 6, 2019:   "Kick in the Jaw" "Sometimes the zebra wins. And the sound..."
June 24, 2019:   "Of Cowardice and Courage" "When Thomas Jefferson made his new book..."
September 26, 2016:   "Vane" "The rusted rooster spins alone these days..."
September 11, 2014:   "God" "Somewhere beneath 125th Street there's a small machine..."
November 11, 2013:   "A Theater Near You" "They say the end is coming, coming soon...."
May 7, 2008:   "Turning Back" "We turn back, always bowing to that urge..."
February 15, 2007:   "Surprising the Gods" "Suppose Eurydice had, running through the evening field..."

Books by Dan Albergotti:

Other poems on the web by Dan Albergotti:
"Among the Things He Does Not Deserve"
Four poems
"A Poem About Nothing"
Two poems
"Reel"
"Days Spent in One of the Other Worlds"
"Outside"
Two poems
Two Poems
Twenty-one poems
"Reel"
"December 25, 2005"
"Revision"

Dan Albergotti's Website.

Dan Albergotti According to Wikipedia.

About The Cincinnati Review:

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Editor: Don Bogen

Other poems by The Cincinnati Review in Verse Daily:
March 8, 2021:   "Lunching with Frank O'Hara on My Deck" by Martha Silano
September 11, 2020:   "The Wall" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
September 10, 2020:   "God is God and the Universe is the Universe" by Leah Umansky
September 9, 2020:   "Unsignified" by Megan Alpert
August 18, 2019:   "Triptych Just before Mass" by C. T. Salazar
August 17, 2019:   "Dear Millennium, on the Extinction of Migrant Doves" by Karen An-Hwei Lee
March 20, 2019:   "My Sparrow" Susan Austin
March 19, 2019:   "When I saw the loblolly pine, " Dan Albergotti
March 18, 2019:   "Just before, or Right after, the Fall of Rome" Brian Culhane
February 9, 2017:   "Ocean in View" by Philip Pardi
February 8, 2017:   "Vs. Field" by Leah Poole Osowski
February 7, 2017:   "Seeing the famous, our desire for fame" by David O'Connell
October 9, 2014:   "We Real Nerds" by David Hernandez
October 7, 2014:   "The Tornado Wants a Companion" by Catherine Pierce
November 27, 2012:   "Inoperable" by Andrea Cohen
November 26, 2012:   "Rara Avis Decoy" by Lo Kwa Mei-en
November 21, 2012:   "Pittsburgh Plate & Glass Company Lot 63" by Sara J. Grossman
November 19, 2012:   "After Afterlude" by Medbh McGuckian
February 23, 2012:   "Talk-Talk, Ambulance Style" by Nance Van Winckel
July 4, 2011:   "At the Dock at Dusk" by Michael Chitwood
June 29, 2011:   "Wing" by Lisa Williams

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