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Today's poem is "Tornado Song"

from Salt Hill

Amie Whittemore is the author of the poetry collections Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press), Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books, 2023), and Nest of Matches (Autumn House, 2024). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her poems and prose have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Nashville Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She is the Reviews Editor for Southern Indiana Review and teaches English at Middle Tennessee State University, where she directs MTSU Write, a from-home creative writing mentorship program.

Other poems by Amie Whittemore in Verse Daily:
September 23, 2019:   "Kissing Meditation" "If kissing is the mouth's elegy..."
February 2, 2017:   "Two Widows" "We installed another widow..."

Books by Amie Whittemore:

Other poems on the web by Amie Whittemore:
"Laughter, Hiccups & Yawning"
Three poems
"Flirtation Meditation"
"My Superpower"
"Starlicide"
Two poems
"The Calendar"
"The Unknotting"
"Lunar Eclipse"
Four poems
"Autumn Thinking"
"Hayloft"

Amie Whittemore's Website.

Amie Whittemore on Twitter.

About Salt Hill:

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Salt Hill Journal * Syracuse University * English Department * Syracuse, NY 13244
Poety Editors: Bridget O'Bernstein * Ally Young
Other poems by Salt Hill Journal in Verse Daily:
June 6, 2022:   "After Apollo" by E.G. Cunningham
June 5, 2022:   "Elegy 10" by Michael Homolka
March 20, 2022:   "Nearness" by Tawanda Mulalu
February 14, 2022:   "six times grey" by G. J. Sanford
February 13, 2022:   "Addendum" by Soleil Garneau
February 12, 2022:   "People as Evidence" by Lauren Camp
June 2, 2021:   "Late Vigil" by Caleb Nolen
June 1, 2021:   "Scold's Bridle" by Jess Smith
May 30, 2021:   "God loves everybody, don't remind me" by Anthony Thomas Lombardi

May 27, 2021:   "July" by Rachel Harkai
October 17, 2016:   "self-portrait, with untruth" by Emily O'Neill
September 30, 2016:   "Red Moon" by Corinna Rosendahl
September 28, 2016:   "To Swallow These Catastrophes" by Nick Narbutas
May 9, 2016:   "The Death Spread" by Tyler Brewington
May 3, 2014:   "Sunglesses" by James Gendron
May 2, 2014:   "Telomere" by Judson Evans
May 1, 2014:   "The Yellow Thing" by Kirsten Kaschock
June 14, 2011:   "Overture to a Legend" by Bridget Talone
June 12, 2011:   "Svendborg Sound" by Rich Hilles
June 10, 2011:   "I Don't Mind the Mess that Comes from Pressing Hard..." by Matt Mauch
On Coffee Alone 22, 2010:   "I Was Using Your Mail Order Drugs" by Karyna McGlynn
May 1, 2010:   "Grunion" by Dore Kiesselbach
April 30, 2010:   "More Precisely" by Ander Monson
September 5, 2009:   "Do the Right Thing" by Adrian Matejka
June 10, 2009:   "After All This" by Richard Jackson
June 8, 2009:   "Surrender" by Dorianne Laux
November 13, 2008:   from "All the Purple Deer" by Christopher Shipman
November 12, 2008:   "Andalusia" by Matthew Rohrer
November 11, 2008:   "Every Will Builds Itself a Satellite" by Chris Tonelli

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