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Today's poem is "Leda"
from Ghost Apples

Red Hen Press

Katharine Coles's Ghost Apples is her ninth collection of poems. Her prose books include The Stranger I Become: on Walking, Looking, and Writing (essays), Look Both Ways (memoir), and two novels. She served as Poet Laureate of Utah and Poet-in-Residence at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the Salt Lake City Public Library for the Poets House FIELD WORK program. She recently became Poet-in-Residence for Swell, a micro-podcasting app. She has received awards from the NEA, the NEH, the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah.

Other poems by Katharine Coles in Verse Daily:
December 5, 2019:   "Self-Portrait With Nightfall" "Say you were born with a congenital absence, one..."
April 8, 2015:   "Penguin Shot" "The day I need pockets, I will refuse..."
May 3, 2013:   "Here Be Monsters" "We could fall off one..."
May 31, 2009:   "Numbers" "They won't stick. They gleam like brilliantine...."

Books by Katharine Coles:

Other poems on the web by Katharine Coles:
Eleven poems
Two poems
"You Won’t Find Consolation"
"Sestina in Prose"
Two poems
Two poems
"Missing"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Five poems
"Hawks"
Five poems



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