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Today's poem is "Stay"

from The Cincinnati Review

Jessica Goodfellow's latest book is Whiteout (University of Alaska Press, 2017). A former writer-in-residence at Denali National Park and Preserve, she's had poems in Ploughshares, Scientific American, The Southern Review, Verse Daily, and Best American Poetry. Jessica lives in Japan.

Other poems by Jessica Goodfellow in Verse Daily:
March 27, 2020:   "Orange" "'Orange is for impermanence'..."
October 18, 2017:   "American Dusk" "Beneath a stagger of stars the herd untangles..."
November 25, 2015:   "On Hearing of Your Hearing Loss" "You heard the last trapdoor close..."
June 3, 2015:   "Regretfully Yours" "Who knows a burden better than a willow?..."
July 8, 2011:   "Navigating by the Light of a Minor Planet" "The trouble with belief in endlessness is..."
December 8, 2008:   ": Shadow : Dwelling : " "Dwelling in a foreign land. Time is the only familiar..."
January 25, 2007:   "Road Trip" " Because the horizon is not a number line..."
March 30, 2006:   "What You See If You Use Water as a Mirror" " In Shinto, the eight elements..."

Books by Jessica Goodfellow:

Other poems on the web by Jessica Goodfellow:
Two poems
"Milk"
"How I Know My Grief"
Two poems
"Poem for My Friends"
"Green as Fixative, When Nothing Else Stays Fixed"
"Eudora’s Year"
Six poems
"Lumen"
"November Nocturne"
Four poems
"Winter Descending"
"Humans Naming Trees"
Two poems
"Perpetuation of the Species"
Two poems
"Nocturne without Counterexample"
"Darwin's Conjecture"
Two poems
"Wakening"
"Search Party, Called Off"
"Fare"
Three poems
"Not Seeing"
"Crows, Reckoning"
": glass : trap :"
Four poems
"How to Find a Missing Father in a Town that Isn?t There"
": rules : wind :"
"November Nocturne"
"The Beach at Big Salt"
": Map : Glass : "
": Form : Shadow :"
"Poem for My Friends"
"In Praise of Imperfect Love"
"Advanced Alchemy"

Jessica Goodfellow's Web site.

Jessica Goodfellow on Twitter.

About The Cincinnati Review:

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The Cincinnati Review * P.O. Box 210069 * Cincinnati, OH 45221-0069
Editor: Don Bogen

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January 11, 2023:   "Poem for my teeth. I can't keep / you" by Alejandro Lucero
January 9, 2023:   "I've Got You" by David Kirby
August 30, 2022:   "Self-Portrait with Zoloft and Fruit" by Despy Boutris
August 22, 2022:   "Training" by Jess Smith
January 22, 2022:   "False Indigo" by Peter LaBerge
January 20, 2022:   "Postcard from Old Hollywood Beach" by Maureen Seaton
March 29, 2021:   "What Is Caged Is Also Kept From Us" by Ada Limón
March 11, 2021:   "The Facebook Elegies" by Bruce Bond
March 9, 2021:   "Earth Shovel" by Dan Albergotti
March 8, 2021:   "Lunching with Frank O'Hara on My Deck" by Natalie Louise Tombasco
September 11, 2020:   "The Wall" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
September 10, 2020:   "God is God and the Universe is the Universe" by Leah Umansky
September 9, 2020:   "Unsignified" by Megan Alpert
August 18, 2019:   "Triptych Just before Mass" by C. T. Salazar
August 17, 2019:   "Dear Millennium, on the Extinction of Migrant Doves" by Karen An-Hwei Lee
March 20, 2019:   "My Sparrow" Susan Austin
March 19, 2019:   "When I saw the loblolly pine, " Ada Limón
March 18, 2019:   "Just before, or Right after, the Fall of Rome" Brian Culhane
February 9, 2017:   "Ocean in View" by Philip Pardi
February 8, 2017:   "Vs. Field" by Leah Poole Osowski
February 7, 2017:   "Seeing the famous, our desire for fame" by David O'Connell
October 9, 2014:   "We Real Nerds" by David Hernandez
October 7, 2014:   "The Tornado Wants a Companion" by Catherine Pierce
November 27, 2012:   "Inoperable" by Andrea Cohen
November 26, 2012:   "Rara Avis Decoy" by Lo Kwa Mei-en
November 21, 2012:   "Pittsburgh Plate & Glass Company Lot 63" by Sara J. Grossman
November 19, 2012:   "After Afterlude" by Medbh McGuckian
February 23, 2012:   "Talk-Talk, Ambulance Style" by Nance Van Winckel
July 4, 2011:   "At the Dock at Dusk" by Michael Chitwood
June 29, 2011:   "Wing" by Lisa Williams

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