®

Today's poem is "Abandon"

from Five Points

Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer, translator, and visual artist. Her latest poetry collections are I Want To Tell You (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2023) and Un pez dorado no te sirve para nada / A Goldfish Buys You Nothing (Editorial Yaugarú, Uruguay, 2023). Her translations include Love Poems by Idea Vilariño and The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems Circe Maia, both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is the editor of the Wisconsin Poetry Series at the University of Wisconsin Press. Her graphic memoir, French Girl, is forthcoming from Fieldmouse Press.

Other poems by Jesse Lee Kercheval in Verse Daily:
March 20, 2005:  "We Traveled Far & ""we were rash. the map's crease..."
March 12, 2004:  "I Open Your Death Like a Book" "I shall not die twice, Father, but I'll make you do it...."

Other poems on the web by Jesse Lee Kercheval:
Two poems
"Blue Plate"
"Orange"
Two poems
"Using these questions, would you please write a brief description of yourself?"
"19 Poemes Elastiques: rubberbands around my heart"
"Bang"

Jesse Lee Kercheval on Twitter.

Subscription: 1 year (2 issues), $20
Five Points * MSC 8R0318 * Georgia State University * 33 Gilmer St. S.E. Unit 8 * Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3083
Editor: Megan Sexton
Other poems by Five Points in Verse Daily:
February 23, 2024:   "Abandon" "a chainsaw chewing silence, children..."
February 22, 2024:   "Abandon" by Lewis Meyers
February 19, 2024:   "Covid Leads The Procession To Woodlawn Cemetery" by Cynthia Parker-Ohene
January 25, 2020:   "Grackle" by George Kalogeris
January 24, 2020:   "Errors of Beauty" by Ann Townsend
January 23, 2020:   "The Anchors Speak" by Terese Svoboda
May 2, 2019:   "'On the Bodies of Women'" Ina Conradie
April 29, 2019:   "Brother" Lisa Julie
September 2, 2016:   "Charolais" by John Kinsella
August 31, 2016:   "When I Had Died" by Cynthia Huntington
February 9, 2016:   "Funeral in Vermont" by Andrea Hollander
November 21, 2015:   "Ode to Chronic Insolvency" "I lived in an apartment..."
November 20, 2015:   "Ascension" by Philip Levine
March 31, 2015:   "Mrs. Cavendish and the Learning Curve" by Stephen Dunn
March 30, 2015:   "Passing Phase" by Stephen Dunn
November 9, 2013:   "The Rescue" by Chelsea Rathburn
February 7, 2011:   "Casals" by Gerald Stern
September 8, 2010:   "Converted Church" by Medbh McGuckian
December 15, 2009:   "The Opening" by Philip Schultz
May 14, 2009:   "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009:   "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008:   "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008:   "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008:   "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008:   "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007:   "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007:   "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007:   "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006:   "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005:   "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005:   "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005:   "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005:   "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005:  "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005:  "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005:  "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004:  "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003:  "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

Home 
Archives  Web Weekly Features  Support Verse Daily  About Verse Daily  FAQs  Submit to Verse Daily  Follow Verse Daily on Twitter

Copyright © 2002-2024 Verse Daily All Rights Reserved