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Today's poem is "When Girls Become Birds"

from The Louisville Review

Hollie Dugas lives in New Mexico. Her work has been selected to be included in Barrow Street, Reed Magazine, Crab Creek Review, Qu, Redivider, Porter House Review, Pembroke, Salamander, Poet Lore, Watershed Review, Mud Season Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Louisville Review, The Penn Review, Chiron Review, Louisiana Literature, and CALYX. Hollie has been nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Best New Poets 2021. She has also been a finalist twice for the Peseroff Prize at Breakwater Review, Greg Grummer Poetry Prize at Phoebe, Fugue's Annual Contest, and has received Honorable Mention in Broad River Review. Additionally, "A Woman's Confession #5,162" was selected as the winner of Western Humanities Review Mountain West Writers' Contest (2017). Most recently, her poem was selected as winner of the 22nd Annual Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize at CALYX, in addition to, the 2022 Heartwood Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist in the Atlanta Review's 2022 International Poetry Contest. Currently, she is on the editorial board for Off the Coast.

Other poems by Hollie Dugas in Verse Daily:
July 28, 2022:   "A Couple with Their Heads Made of Bees" "Let's not call it honey anymore..."

Other poems on the web by Hollie Dugas:
"Self Portrait of an Open Wound"
"In the Dollhouse"
"In What In-Between"
"To The (Surgeon) Mother of a Poet I Knew"
"Fisherman's Sacrament"
"Anatomy of Dust"
"Alchemy's Darling"
"Invite at the End of the World"
"COVID-19 Lockdown, Day 20"
"As You Are Drying the Red Chili Peppers"
"I Never Remember the Types of Clouds"
"Self Portrait of a Girl with No Bones"
"Ways to Say I Love You During A Pandemic Lockdown"
"A Woman's Confession #5,162"
"In the Name of Proximity"
"Covid-19 Narrated by Sigourney Weaver on a TV Special"

About The Louisville Review:

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Poetry Editor: Wanda Fries * Maureen Morehead * Alan J. Naslund
Other poems from The Louisville Review in Verse Daily:
April 29, 2023:   "This is a love poem if you squint hard enough" by Daisy Bassen
August 31, 2022:   "A Call" by Don Bogen
August 29, 2022:   "Last of This; First of That" by Mary Ann Samyn
April 3, 2022:   "Ars Poetica" by Christopher Buckley
August 25, 2021:   "The Papers of Bull Connor" by Elizabeth Hughey
May 7, 2021:  

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