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Today's poem is "Ode to the Automobile and Human Happiness"

from Rattle

Alicia Ostriker has published nineteen collections of poetry, most recently Waiting for the Light and The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019. She was twice nominated for a National Book Award and twice received the National Jewish Book Award, among other honors. She was New York State Poet Laureate in 2018-2021. She lives in New York City with her husband Jerry, an astrophysicist.

Other poems by Alicia Ostriker in Verse Daily:
April 12, 2014:   "Deer Walk Upon Our Mountains" "When they see me said the old woman..."

Books by Alicia Ostriker:

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"Everywoman Her Own Theology"
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"Suite For Eleanor"
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"Ghazal: America the Beautiful"
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"Utopian"

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March 17, 2022:   "Goodbye Horses" by John Sibley Williams
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