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Today's poem is "When Grief Made Us"

from Sugar House Review

Ruth Awad is a Lebanese-American poet, 2021 NEA Poetry Fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs & Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2020). She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The Believer, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere.

Other poems by Ruth Awad in Verse Daily:
October 12, 2022:   "Hunger" "Imaginary, the value of the pound, and yet when it drops..."

Books by Ruth Awad:

Other poems on the web by Ruth Awad:
Two poems
"The Years of Water & Light"
Two poems
Two poems
"Moral Inventory"
Six poems
"In the gloaming, in the roiling night"
Two poems
Two poems
"All the Oranges of Tripoli"
"The one where I beg"
"The Sleepwalker"
Two poems
Three poems

Ruth Awad's Website.

Ruth Awad on Twitter.

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