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Today's poem is "Three-Years-out-of-College-Laundromat-Late-Sunday-Afternoon Blues"

from The Manhattan Review

Baron Wormser is the author of twenty books and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 2000 to 2005 he served as poet laureate of the state of Maine. He is the founding director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Essays of his were included in Best American Essays 2014 and 2018. His most recent books are The History Hotel: Poems and the reissue by Brandeis University Press of The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid.

Other poems by Baron Wormser in Verse Daily:
June 11, 2003:  "Journey to the East" "The guru was too fond of antithesis..."

Other poems on the web by Baron Wormser:
Twenty-four poems
"A Quiet Life"
Two poems
Thirteen poems
Three poems

Baron Wormser's Website.

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