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Today's poem is "When I Try to Write an Elegy"

from Redactions

Jeannine Hall Gailey is a poet with multiple sclerosis who served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She's the author of six books of poetry: Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist's Daughter, Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and the Elgin Award, and the upcoming in 2023, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions. Her work appeared in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry.

Other poems by Jeannine Hall Gailey in Verse Daily:
September 8, 2021:   "Meltdown" "I won't deny I'm fragile...."
May 14, 2021:   "I Can't Stop" "Being a person who looks for the dark side...."
November 14, 2020:   "They Are Waiting" "For blood work. For a sign...."
November 14, 2020:   "They Are Waiting" "For blood work. For a sign...."
April 8, 2012:   "Anima" "On wet sand the tracks of deer, geese..."
August 31, 2006:   "Grackles" " The day is fastened..."
August 9, 2005:   "Returning The Ghost "After the glass of crashing..."

Books by Jeannine Hall Gailey:

Other poems on the web by Jeannine Hall Gailey:
Two poems
"Witchcraft"
"In a Plague Year, I Found Foxes"
"It Was No Longer Summer"
Four poems
Three poems
"Growing Down"
Two poems
Four poems
"Repentance"
Two poems
Two poems
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems

Jeannine Hall Gailey's Website.

Jeannine Hall Gailey on Twitter.

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January 29, 2021:   "Poem For Bill's Birthday" by Joyce Carol Oates
June 4, 2019:   "They're Launching a Poem-less Library to the Moon" Liz Chang
March 5, 2011:   "One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds" by Jeff Tigchelaar
January 25, 2010:   "String Theory" by Ronald Wallace
February 13, 2009:   "Astrologia" by James Grabill
February 11, 2009:   "Sense" by Brian Diamond
February 9, 2009:   "The God of the Normandy Coast" by James Doyle
July 14, 2007:   "The Rule of Geese" by Tricia Asklar
July 16, 2006:   "On Falling and Failing" by J. P. Dancing Bear
July 5, 2006:   "Afternoon Ether" by Dawn Lonsinger
December 29, 2005:   "Gray Gone Missing" by Michael Robins
December 26, 2005:   "Ponderous Borer" by Linda Cooper
December 25, 2005:   "Prayer" by Susan Denning
December 20, 2005:   "Fiber Optics" by John Whalen

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