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Today's poem is "Visiting My Mother's Wars"

from Rattle

A.E. Wilberton is a poet and librarian. She is currently a student in the UMass-Boston MFA program. She has work in Critical Read, Rattle, Maine Review and forthcoming in Shenandoah. She lives in Rhode Island.

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Editor: Timothy Green
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September 17, 2021:   "This Is What Life Does" by Marjorie Saiser
September 16, 2021:   "Fat Girl Trilonnet" by Stephanie Rogers
January 24, 2021:   "Homestead" by Alice Pettway
January 23, 2020:   "Lockdown Puzzle: Hokusai's Great Wave Off Kanagawa" by A. E. Stallings
January 22, 2020:   "Because Wolves Are A Protected Species, This One Is Merely Interrogated" by Ron Koertge
October 28, 2020:   "Note to Self" by David Mason
October 27, 2020:   "Poetry Workshop" by Vivian Shipley
October 26, 2020:   "My Love, Though the Smart Speaker Is Spying on Us" by Jeffrey Morgan
July 29, 2020:   "Asterisks" by Martin Vest
July 28, 2020:   "The Fact That There's A Snake Tunneling Through My Grass Doesn't Make The Parting Of The Blades Any Less Beautiful." by Tom C. Hunley
July 27, 2020:   "Peeling Potatoes in Puerto Vallarta" by Lynne Knight
May 25, 2020:   "Triolets on a Dune Shack" by Carolyne Wright
May 23, 2020:   "The Cow I Didn't Eat" by Lollie Butler
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November 25, 2019:   "If You Were to Ask Me the State of My Country..." by Chaun Ballard
October 24, 2019:   "What My Children Remember" by Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
October 23, 2019:   "Chasing Home" by Ifeoluwa Ayandele
October 22, 2019:   "Sorrow" by Kwame Dawes
September 9, 2019:   "Full Disclosure" by Alan C. Fox
September 8, 2019:   "In Which I Get Out of a Speeding Ticket" by Carol Potter
February 9, 2019:   "Nothing Is Fine" Susan Paris
March 17, 2017:   "Why We Climb Mountains" by Marti Noel
March 16, 2017:   "Even Rottweilers Sing" by Tim Amsden
November 30, 2016:   "Anthem" by Elaine Sexton
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