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Today's poem is "Baptism | Before I Grew Up, There Was a War"

from Iron Horse Literary Review

Remi Recchia, PhD, is a trans poet and essayist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a book editor and also works as a technical editor. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Remi's work has appeared in World Literature Today, Best New Poets 2021, and Juked, among others. Books and chapbooks include Quicksand/Stargazing (Cooper Dillon Books, 2021); Sober (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022); From Gold, Ghosts: Alchemy Erasures (Gasher Press, 2023); and Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us (Sundress Publications, forthcoming). Remi has been a Tin House Scholar and Thomas Lux Scholar. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University.

Books by Remi Recchia:

Other poems on the web by Remi Recchia:
"Amuse-Bouche"
Two poems
"It's Easy"
"The Lights"
Two poems
Two poems
"Ninety Days"
"When we don't invite your older brother to the wedding & your mother wants to know why,"
"I'm Sandcastled Sometimes, But Mostly Just Hungover"
"Things I Can't Tell My Landlord"
"On Leaving Bowling Green, Ohio"
"Prosopagnosia Feels Like Looking Through a Tunnel and Landing in a Graveyard"
"Struck by the Beauty of Someplace I Don't Belong, I Slow Down & Drive the Speed Limit"
Two poems
"Gifts"

Remi Recchia's Website.

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Editors: Robert Borgatti * Livio Farallo * Dan Sicoli
Other poems by Iron Horse Literary Review in Verse Daily:
November 2, 2019:   "Dog Medicine" by Matt Dennison
November 1, 2019:   "Graveyard Ghazal" by Alison Stone
October 31, 2019:   "Midnight in the Backyard of Lust and Longing" by Alexis Rhone Fancher
January 7, 2005:  "Even the Trees in the Lake are Burning" by Muriel Zeller

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