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Today's poem is "The Centaur"

from Bennington Review

Jose Hernandez Diaz is a 2017 NEA Poetry Fellow. He is from Southern California. He is the author of a collection of prose poems: The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020). His work appears in The American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Georgia Review, Huizache, Iowa Review, The Nation, Poetry, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Currently, he is an Associate Editor at Frontier Poetry and a Guest Editor at Palette Poetry. Also, he teaches creative writing with Litro Magazine and Sevilla Writers House.

Other poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz in Verse Daily:
September 11, 2020:   "The Wall" "A man in a Chicano Batman shirt punched a wall...."
June 21, 2017:   "The Bulldog" "I woke up transformed into a bulldog...."

Books by Jose Hernandez Diaz:

Other poems on the web by Jose Hernandez Diaz:
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"The Dragon and the Coyote"
Two poems
Two poems
"The Man and The Antlers"
"Taxi to the Beach"
"The Target"

Jose Hernandez Diaz on Twitter.

About Bennington Review:

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Editor: Michael Dumanis

Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
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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