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Today's poem is "Because"
from To See What Rises

CW Books

Alison Stone is the author of nine full-length collections, Informed (NYQ Books, forthcoming), To See What Rises (CW Books, 2023), Zombies at the Disco (Jacar Press, 2020), Caught in the Myth (NYQ Books, 2019), Dazzle (Jacar Press, 2017), Masterplan, a book of collaborative poems with Eric Greinke (Presa Press, 2018), Ordinary Magic, (NYQ Books, 2016), Dangerous Enough (Presa Press 2014), and They Sing at Midnight, which won the 2003 Many Mountains Moving Poetry Award; as well as three chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, Poet Lore, and many other journals and anthologies. She has been awarded Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and New York Quarterly's Madeline Sadin Award. She was Writer in Residence at LitSpace St. Pete. She is also a painter and the creator of The Stone Tarot. A licensed psychotherapist, she has private practices in NYC and Nyack.

Other poems by Alison Stone in Verse Daily:
September 5, 2020:   "Caligula" "If I'm not safe..."
November 1, 2019:   "Graveyard Ghazal" "With prayer and song, I call to the dead...."
June 17, 2018:   "Emergency" (w/ Eric Greinke) "A siren blares down the highway..."
October 29, 2016:   "Amazon-Persephone After" "True, the first time I went willingly. What girl..."

Books by Alison Stone:

Other poems on the web by Alison Stone:
"Diana Explains About Actaeon"
Twenty-seven poems
Two poems
"People have started Saying, 'Nip it in the Butt'"
Two poems
"Poem Inspired by the Historian with the Loud Laugh"
"Boy on a Hothouse"
"Persephone After"
"Beneath the Beautiful"
"Timely Ghazal"
Three poems
"Ink Threads"

Alison Stone's Website.



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