Lesley Wheeler's sixth poetry collection, Mycocosmic, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2025. Her most recent volume of poetry is The State She's In; other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry's Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Her poems and essays appear in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Poets & Writers, and Guernica, and she is Poetry Editor of Shenandoah.

Other poems by Lesley Wheeler in Verse Daily:
August 12, 2020:   "Deferred Action" "Look at the mountain, find my boots, abandon..."
June 8, 2020:   "Unsonnet" "When color comes back to the world..."
July 16, 2019:   "Inside Out" "Shouldn't talk with a mouthful of half-chewed flags..."
March 13, 2016:   "Semicolons" "Samaras, sticky tender things, helicopter..."
September 3, 2009:   "Past Bedtime" "Sometimes I feel like a stream, she said...."
August 16, 2009:   "Selfish" "When you are always right, it is hard to diet..."
June 30, 2009:   "Inland Song" "In some kind houses the doors..."
November 14, 2007:   "Lazy Eye" " The stranger unplugs her bogus teeth..."

Books by Lesley Wheeler:

Other poems on the web by Lesley Wheeler:
Two poems
"Negotiations"
Two poems
"Extended Release"
Two poems
"My Dead Father Remembers My Birthday"
Two poems
Three poems
"Letter to America"
"Feeling Good"
"3rd Violation"
"Oral Culture"
"Bequest"
"Dressing Down, 1962"
Three poems
"Rimwalkers"
Three poems
Two poems
"Zombie Thanksgiving"

Lesley Wheeler's Website.

Lesley Wheeler on Twitter.

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July 18, 2023:   "Visitation" by Eric Pankey
December 1, 2022:   "The Languorous Flipside of Fire" by John Minczeski

May 20, 2022:   "Resentment" by Ace Boggess
May 14, 2022:   "Resentment" by Al Maginnes
May 13, 2022:   "Cultivar from the West" by Angie Macri
November 28, 2021:   "Another Story of Ash" by Rick Campbell
November 27, 2021:   "Ars Poetica II" by Dean Rader
November 26, 2021:   "Wine with Everything Was What I Said" by Laura Sobbott Ross

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