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Today's poem is "Paper Skeleton Villanelle"

from Copper Nickel

Rebecca Lehmann is the author of the poetry collections Ringer (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Between the Crackups (Salt). Her work has been featured in The American Poetry Review, The Threepenny Review, NPR's The Slowdown and other venues. She lives in Indiana, and is the Founding Editor of the online poetry journal Couplet Poetry.

Other poems by Rebecca Lehmann in Verse Daily:
December 17, 2015:   "Man" "Day-born, man springs into the demarcated forest..."
March 23, 2014:   "Time Traveler" "In the cavern I hung ropes..."
June 3, 2013:   "Father Time Has a Face Made of Late-Season Vegetables" "The sundry displays..."

Books by Rebecca Lehmann:

Other poems on the web by Rebecca Lehmann:
"Specter"
Two poems
"Natural History"
"Abortion Poem"
"The Poem Is the Story"
Three poems
"A Gun In The First Act"
"Descent"
"Memento Mori"
"Nothing"
"Watching The Wizard of Oz, Summer 1988"
"Epithalamion"
"The Moons of Pluto"

Rebecca Lehmann's Website.

Rebecca Lehmann on Twitter.

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October 30, 2021:   "Kelpie" by Ashley Keyser
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November 6, 2020:   "While Night Still Keeps Us" by Carl Phillips
November 5, 2020:   "Poem for the Year Just Past" by David Dodd Lee
November 4, 2020:   "The Year With No Address" by Megan Alpert
November 3, 2020:   "Why to Save the World" by Lisa Fay Coutley
June 1, 2020:   "Book of Dolls 2" by Bruce Bond
May 28, 2020:   "Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve" by Andrea Cohen
May 27, 2020:   "Marvelous Things without Number" by Troy Jollimore
May 26, 2020:   "The Blind" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
November 20, 2019:   "December" by David Baker
November 19, 2019:   "Childhood" by Daniel Lawless
November 18, 2019:   "Dear Jolene," by Natasha Sajé
February 19, 2019:   "Storm of the Century" Jill Osier
February 18, 2019:   "Poem for the Woods" Catherine Pierce
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
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July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
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January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
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November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
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