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Today's poem is "Burial of a Woman With the Blackened Shells of 86 Tortoises"

from Twelve Mile Review

Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her third poetry collection, Before There Was Before, was published by Iris Press in 2017. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, J Journal, Lily Poetry Review, Nimrod, Pangyrus, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Solstice, Sugar House, The Atlanta Review, The Mid-American Review, The Hudson Review, The Threepenny Review, and the Valparaiso Poetry Review, among others. She's been the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, since 2018, and is programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club. Her fourth collection, Notes from the Column of Memory, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books.

Other poems by Wendy Drexler in Verse Daily:
May 26, 2017:   "Light R48 on the Storrow Drive Underpass" "Praise the beam of that light that slices..."
November 29, 2008:   "Earth" "Forgive me if I feel a little shaky...."

Books by Wendy Drexler:

Other poems on the web by Wendy Drexler:
Two poems
Two poems
"Walking The Woods With You On The Day of Atonement"
"Needlepoint Sampler"
"Forbearance"

Wendy Drexler's Website.

About Twelve Mile Review:

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March 25, 2022:   "Gnomon" by Erin Wilson
November 2, 2021:   "A Song of My People" by Jeff Hardin
October 28, 2021:   "Trust" by Marjorie Maddox

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