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Today's poem is "Ohio Mud"

from Bennington Review

Benjamin S. Grossberg is the author of three books from the University of Tampa Press: My Husband Would (2020), a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year; Space Traveler (2014); and Sweet Core Orchard (2009), winner of a Lambda Literary Award. He is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Hartford.

Other poems by Benjamin S. Grossberg in Verse Daily:
April 20, 2021:   "The Next World" "Three years gone, the dog will greet me there...."

June 23, 2020:   "The Finish Carpenter" "Half million, and what? Cardboard subfloors..."

April 27, 2017:   "Spring Helps" "Spring helps. The theme of back to life..."
November 7, 2011:   "The Space Traveler's Tense" "My species has one for nouns..."
February 8, 2008:   "One Last Thought" "And what if one finally can't be found? What if Leander..."
December 20, 2006:   "Time and Place" " Because I seem unable to get a handle..."
October 13, 2006:   "Stepping on the Dog" " The high squeal, the instant retraction..."

Books by Benjamin S. Grossberg:

Other poems on the web by Benjamin S. Grossberg:
Two poems
Two poems
"Our Never"
Two poems
"Child Bride Dies of Internal Bleeding on her Wedding Night"
Six poems
Three poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Lucas Texts"
"The Space Traveler's Crush"

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Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
August 10, 2022:   "Whitetail in the Rain Moving About" by Melissa Ginsburg
August 9, 2022:   "Driving Through Mississippi After the Capitol Hill Riot" by January Gill O'Neil
August 8, 2022:   "Feast with a Mouthful of Bees" by Alison Pelegrin
April 25, 2022:   "When the still breathing watch the stillborn" by Stella Wong
December 15, 2021:   "For the Suburban Dead" by Malachi Black
December 14, 2021:   "Death Pastoral" by Virginia Konchan
December 9, 2021:   "Heaven and It's Orange Flowers" by Mary Biddinger
April 4, 2021:   "I Was Sorrow" by Anne Marie Rooney
April 3, 2021:   "That Life" by Troy Jollimore
April 2, 2021:   "The Centaur" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
March 31, 2021:   "When You're a Star, They Let You Do It" by Emma Bolden
March 30, 2021:   "Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals" by Catherine Pierce
March 28, 2020:   "Advent Poem" by Peter Cooley
March 27, 2020:   "Orange" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 25, 2020:   "Checkpoint" by David Baker
March 24, 2020:   "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
March 27, 2019:   Of Course" Lisa Fay Coutley
March 25, 2019:   "Shovel" Jericho Brown
August 7, 2017:   "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel &
August 3, 2017:   "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi
August 2, 2017:   "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
August 1, 2017:   "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson

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