Martha Silano has authored five poetry collections, most recently Gravity Assist (Saturnalia Books 2019). She is also co-author, with Kelli Russell Agodon, of The Daily Poet: Day-by-Day Prompts for Your Writing Practice. Martha teaches at Richard Hugo House, Bellevue College, and in rural Skagit County public schools thanks to generous funding from the Skagit River Poetry Foundation.

Other poems by Martha Silano in Verse Daily:
March 8, 2021:   "Lunching with Frank O'Hara on My Deck" "The Russian sage is sprouting leaves from a brown stem..."
April 4, 2020:   "The hands of all my mistakes" "are clapping wildly like aspens in a squall. The blackbird is flying away..."
May 28, 2019:   "Bumblebees Are Made of Ash" "The day is a dragonfly hovering in the Timothy...."
March 19, 2019:   "When I saw the loblolly pine, " "its furrowed bark, I knew I was close..."
November 25, 2014:   "Gerbils in Space" "and geckos. Fruit flies, kernels of com...."
May 16, 2014:   "The Untied States of America" "America, with your water-tower towns, your irrigation sprinklers..."
April 10, 2006:   "Gravitas" " A quarter cow in a cardboard box..."

Books by Martha Silano:

Other poems on the web by Martha Silano:
"I Am Writing A Letter"
"But it was all right to have believed in something,"
Two poems
"When I began to dig"
Two poems
Two poems
Five poems
"Regrets Only, Please"
"When I began to dig"
"At the Funeral of the Grammar Handbook"
Two poems
"Willing & Able"
"Despite Nagging Malfunctions"
Two poems
"Proverbs"
"I Work at the Barbie Factory"
Five poems
Two poems
"Poem for the New Year"

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