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Today's poem is "Spangle"

from The Greensboro Review

John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Hopkins Review, Iowa Review, American Poetry Review, 32 Poems and Southern Review. He won the Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge's Prize. He is associate professor of English at Salisbury University and an editor of The Shore Poetry.

Other poems by John A. Nieves in Verse Daily:
October 6, 2023:   "I Built a Goodbye Machine" "It started with a bobby pin soaked in the blue light..."
February 19, 2023:   "Note From Apparent Magnitude to Luminosity" "Take a second to disregard the yawning pupils..."
May 10, 2021:   "On Pessimism" "They aren't phantoms. There are always..."
January 26, 2021:   "Calan Gaeaf" "When the soot-cheeked children chip..."
April 23, 2020:   "Scuttle" "Don't drink the gnat. It plants itself..."
November 13, 2019:   "Doppler" "I do not feel much..."
January 12, 2016:   "Door of Birds" "When the hard wind finds the high..."
February 24, 2014:   "Autumnal" "October happens this way..."
February 7, 2013:   "Labwork" "We can excuse the apprehension..."
September 24, 2012:   "Daily" "I know it is mythologically wrong..."

Books by John A. Nieves:

Other poems on the web by John A. Nieves:
"Tender"
"Long Dash"
"Roadside Monument"
Three poems
Three poems
"If You Tilt It like So, You Can Almost See It (Caput Draconis)"
"Note to a Prospective Runaway at Bedtime"
"Scission"
Three poems
"Elegy with the Elegy Missing"
"For Jenny"
"Ars Elegica"
"The Moment of the Fall"
"Random Pulls from the Body Tarot"
Three poems
Three poems
"Strawberry Moon"
"Grain Moon"
"Missive"
"Historiography"
Three poems
"Wolfpeach"
Three poems
"Through Ends of Autumn"
"Dendrochronology"
"Backyard"
"Epoxy (Wave Like Ahab)"
"Invasive Species"

John A. Nieves's Website.

About The Greensboro Review:

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December 20, 2023:   "Spangle" by Michael Meyerhofer
May 3, 2023:   "Focal Point" by Emma DePanise
January 7, 2023:   "Othello The Moor" by A. Van Jordan
January 6, 2023:   "Aerial View of Maze" by Suphil Lee Park
January 4, 2023:   "Broken Showerhead" by Dom Witten
January 2, 2023:   "April Prayer" by Todd Davis
February 3, 2022:   "Bargaining with the Universe, I Look for Loopholes" by Ronda Piszk Broatch
February 2, 2022:   "Going Through the Motions" by Grant Clauser
February 1, 2022:   "Directions" by Paul Guest
January 31, 2022:   "Brayer" by Dan Albergotti
January 30, 2021:   "Coffin Bell" by Andrew Bode-Lang
January 28, 2021:   "Voicemail From My Mother" by Robert Lynn
January 27, 2021:   "Auld Lang Syne" by David Starkey
January 26, 2021:   "Calan Gaeaf" by John A. Nieves
May 16, 2020:   "Sertraline" by Emily Nason
May 15, 2020:   "Crocuses" by David Roderick
December 3, 2019:   "No One Can Tell the Bones of the Dead from the Bones of the Living" by Chelsea Dingman
December 2, 2019:   "A Sort of Art" by Dan Albergotti
December 1, 2019:   "On Seeing a Bee Drink His Nectar" by Wesley Sexton
December 8, 2014:   "Rule 30" by Ryan Vine
November 10, 2013:   "Lullaby with Bourbon" by George David Clark
June 8, 2012:   "Winter and Spring" by Randolph Thomas
March 15, 2012:   "Places that have become me" by Bob Hicok
June 11, 2010:   "Monster-Life" by Nathan Anderson
June 24, 2009:   "Resurrection Fern" by Sara Johnson
June 21, 2009:   "The Child and the Parent" by Ted Kooser
June 20, 2009:   "The Fugitive Kind" by Austin Hummell
January 18, 2009:   "Ovid in Exile" by John Hart
January 17, 2009:   "Possum Nocturne" by Doug Ramspeck
October 13, 2008:   "Over a Ballpoint" by Allan Peterson
May 15, 2008:   "A wedding night" by Randolph Thomas
May 14, 2008:   "Lost in the Heart of the Concert" by Pattiann Rogers
February 28, 2008:   "Fold, Fold" by Mary Crow
February 25, 2008:   "Anubis" by Alan Shapiro
September 19, 2007:   "Elemental: Nitrogen" by Suzanne Heyd
May 18, 2007:   "Autumn Again" by Michael Pettit
December 16, 2006:   "Sky: An Inquiry" by Leslie Ullman
April 12, 2005:  "Cardinal Virtue" by Nicky Beer
September 7, 2004:  "Tantalus" by Robert B. Shaw
March 28, 2004:  "Moving the Moon" by Deborah Bogen
September 22, 2003:  "Aubade" by Richard Foerster
September 20, 2003:  "Goodwill" by Elizabeth McLagan

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