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Today's poem is "Mortropolis"

from Bennington Review

Elton Glaser has published nine full-length collections of poetry, most recently Ghost Variations, published in 2023 by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

Other poems by Elton Glaser in Verse Daily:
April 20, 2020:   "On Literary Immortality" "You need not worry about the critics, for they have..."
March 17, 2013:   "Gifts out of Dirty Weather" "At the mall, three dead weeks before Christmas..."
November 19, 2011:   "Downloading the Meltdown" "Rumple of clouds at sunset, low and pink..."
February 14, 2009:   "Advance Requiem for a Lovely Couple" "So Beauty's gone under the knife again..."
August 10, 2007:   "Drinking Alone on a Spring Day" " New grass grows faster than I..."
July 9, 2006:   "Last Days of the Surreal" " Inside the open cages, only dead canaries sing..."
August 15, 2005:   "Low and Delicious "This morning, even the roses look morose..."
August 1, 2005:   "Half-Numb from Winter, on a Morning Almost Warm "Go for wisdom to the iris, beard..."
March 31, 2004:  "Interior Lighting" "In leaps and staggers, in the beaten-down..."
July 22, 2003:  "The Runes, the Brute Remedies" "Leaves down, and day down, and mercury..."
July 27, 2002:  "Heroic Roses" "Heroic they'd have to be, the way / I let them struggle...."

Other poems on the web by Elton Glaser:
Eleven poems
"Art by Nature"
"Smoking"
"Thanksgiving in New Orleans, 2005"

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Poems from Bennington Review previously featured on Verse Daily:
February 6, 2024:   "Chinese Remainder Theorem by Stella Wong
March 27, 2023:   "Vivisection" by Jennifer Militello
March 24, 2023:   "What Do You Do for a Living?" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
March 22, 2023:   "Death Arrives On a Pale Horse" by John Gallaher
March 21, 2023:   "A Wolf's Skin Stretched Across A Drum" by Shane McCrae
March 20, 2023:   "I am Not a Robot" by Lisa Allen Ortiz
August 11, 2022:   "Ohio Mud" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
August 10, 2022:   "Whitetail in the Rain Moving About" by Melissa Ginsburg
August 9, 2022:   "Driving Through Mississippi After the Capitol Hill Riot" by January Gill O'Neil
August 8, 2022:   "Feast with a Mouthful of Bees" by Alison Pelegrin
April 25, 2022:   "When the still breathing watch the stillborn" by Elton Glaser
December 15, 2021:   "For the Suburban Dead" by Malachi Black
December 14, 2021:   "Death Pastoral" by Virginia Konchan
December 9, 2021:   "Heaven and It's Orange Flowers" by Mary Biddinger
April 4, 2021:   "I Was Sorrow" by Anne Marie Rooney
April 3, 2021:   "That Life" by Troy Jollimore
April 2, 2021:   "The Centaur" by Jose Hernandez Diaz
March 31, 2021:   "When You're a Star, They Let You Do It" by Emma Bolden
March 30, 2021:   "Abecedarian for the Dangerous Animals" by Catherine Pierce
March 28, 2020:   "Advent Poem" by Peter Cooley
March 27, 2020:   "Orange" by Jessica Goodfellow
March 25, 2020:   "Checkpoint" by David Baker
March 24, 2020:   "Our Lady of Thoughts and Prayers" by Dean Rader
March 27, 2019:   Of Course" Lisa Fay Coutley
March 25, 2019:   "Shovel" Jericho Brown
August 7, 2017:   "Decimation" by Raymond McDaniel &
August 3, 2017:   "The Nacreous Interior" by Ryo Yamaguchi
August 2, 2017:   "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
August 1, 2017:   "[In this small tent men pound]" by Gale Marie Thompson

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