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Today's poem is "noyse"

from Boulevard

Betsy Johnson's work has appeared in Boulevard, Iowa Review (online), Prairie Schooner, and Poet Lore, and this poem is in a manuscript that has been a finalist in multiple competitions, including the National Poetry Series Competition.

Other poems by Betsy Johnson in Verse Daily:
June 21, 2022:   "consider the cocklebur" "that will not let go until you drag it to fertile ground...."

Books by Betsy Johnson:

Other poems on the web by Betsy Johnson:
Two poems
"My Mother Dies Because I Drink Her Water"
Three poems

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November 14, 2020:   "They Are Waiting" by Jeannine Hall Gailey
November 13, 2020:   "Teach Me to Say Goodbye" by Katherine Smith
May 13, 2020:   "Poem for Tidying Up" by Laura Paul Watson
May 11, 2020:   "Picture Day" by John Sibley Williams
June 12, 2019:   "The Way You Hold Your Knife" Dick Allen
June 11, 2019:   "On Kingdoms" Joanna Klink
June 10, 2019:   "Calenture" Allison Hutchcraft
February 2, 2018:   "The Song of the Practical" by Albert Goldbarth
January 31, 2018:   "Triceratops ♥ You" by Owen McLeod
May 11, 2017:   "Pennies from Heaven" by John Blair
July 22, 2016:   "Ghost Encounter" by Annah Browning
December 13, 2015:   "Room Key" by David Lehman
December 11, 2015:   "It Does Kind of Burn. Goodbye." by Henry Crawford
December 10, 2015:   "The Night and the Cold" by Charles Simic
November 5, 2014:   "At Last" by Gerald Stern
November 3, 2014:   At Last by Edward Nobles
January 16, 2013:   "Report from the Provinces" by Wayne Miller

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