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Today's poem is "Ghazal for God & Wellbutrin"

from Black Warrior Review

Mónica Gomery is a poet and rabbi living on unceded Lenni Lenape land in Philadelphia. Her second book, Might Kindred, won the 2021 Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize, and is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. She is also the author of Here is the Night and the Night on the Road (Cooper Dillon Books, 2018), and the chapbook Of Darkness and Tumbling (YesYes Books, 2017). Her poems have appeared in the Poetry Foundation's Poem of the Day, Foglifter, Waxwing, The Journal, Best Small Fictions 2020, and elsewhere. Her work has been awarded the Minola Review Poetry Contest, and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net.

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Other poems on the web by Mónica Gomery:
"Ars Poetica"
"Here"
Four poems
"Visit"
"A poem with two memories of Venezuela"
Two poems
Two poems
"We thanked her by digging a hole"
"We thanked her by digging a hole"
"They Say Loss Can Touch Another Loss"
"Letter to Myself From my Great Grandmother"
"Falling Out"
"Theology"

Mónica Gomery's Website.

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