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Today's poem is "Isolating"

from River Styx

Anne Champion is the author of She Saints & Holy Profanities (Quarterly West, 2019), Book of Levitations (Trembling Pillow Press, 2019), The Good Girl Is Always a Ghost (Black Lawrence Press, 2018), The Dark Length Home (Noctuary Press, 2017), and Reluctant Mistress ( Gold Wake Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Verse Daily, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Epiphany Magazine, The Pinch, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2015 Best of the Net winner, a 2009 Academy of American Poets Prize recipient, and a Barbara Deming Memorial Grant recipient. Anne teaches writing and literature at Wheelock College in Boston.

Other poems by Anne Champion in Verse Daily:
September 2, 2020:   "Mermaid Spell" by (w/ Jenny Sadre-Orafai) "Your daughter will tell you she's a mermaid..."

October 2, 2018:   "Indira Gandhi Speaks to Nixon" "It's unpleasant, talking to men about warlike..."

March 29, 2013:   "Snapdragons" "The fog lifts, revealing..."

Books by Anne Champion:

Other poems on the web by Anne Champion:
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Anne Champion's Website.

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Other poems from River Styx in Verse Daily:
November 15, 2022:   "Isolating" by Anne Champion
April 22, 2021:   "Snow Burial" by Bruce Bond
April 21, 2021:   "Great Blue Heron" by Jehanne Dubrow
February 21, 2020:   "Home Movies" by Emma Bolden
February 20, 2020:   "Visitant" by Robert Wrigley
November 17, 2013:   "One Hundredth Anniversary Edition of 'Birches'" by Richard Cecil
November 16, 2013:   "Bon Fire" by Chris Mattingly
July 5, 2013:   "Song of the Jellyfish" by Lee Upton
August 11, 2010:   "Stone Seeking Warmth" by Stephen Dunn
August 9, 2010:   "Puffer Fish" by Charles Harper Webb
July 2, 2009:   "How to Sleep" by Dorianne Laux
August 2, 2008:   "Sunset Knoll" by George Bilgere
July 7, 2007:   "G Is for Not Just One George" by Mary Jo Bang
January 7, 2007:   "To My Son In Iraq" by Frances Richey
January 3, 2007:   "God's Ode to Creation" by Maura Stanton
July 23, 2006:   "The Devil's Trill" by Timothy Liu
July 18, 2006:   "The Fern Seed" by Cecily Parks
January 25, 2006:   "Single-Lens Reflex" by Debra Kang Dean
January 12, 2006:   "Becoming Involved" by Elizabeth Rees
June 2, 2005:  "Eighty From Seventy-Eight" by William Gass
May 31, 2005:  "Maybe" Myrna Stone
May 30, 2005:  "Chum" Lucia Perillo
July 2, 2004:  "In Ambient Light" by Greg Rappleye
June 30, 2004:  "Darwin Enters the City of His Birth" by Melanie Dusseau
September 4, 2003:  "Luxembourg howtosleeps at Twilight" by James Doyle
September 3, 2003:  "Thank You" by Molly Peacock
March 7, 2003:  "Love, with Trees and Lightning" by Catie Rosemurgy
March 6, 2003:  "A Leopard Hanging in a Tree" by Eric Rawson
March 3, 2003:  "Waiting With a Stranger" by David Simpson
February 25, 2003:  "Fame and Fortune Cookie" by Richard Cecil
December 6, 2002:  Small Ghost Poem by Lawrence Raab
December 4, 2002:  Bride by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
September 16, 2002:  "Advertisement for the Ford Explorer" by David Roderick
July 27, 2002:  "Heroic Roses" by Elton Glaser

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