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Today's poem is "Beauty"

from Bennington Review

Jessica Cuello's most recent book is Yours, Creature (JackLeg Press, 2023). Her book Liar, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize, The CNY Book Award, and a finalist nod for The Housatonic Book Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize, two CNY Book Awards, The 2016 Washington Prize, The New Letters Poetry Prize, a Saltonstall Fellowship, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in Central NY.

Other poems by Jessica Cuello in Verse Daily:
November 14, 2023:   "I Nod When the School's Visiting Doctor Asks If I Eat Three Meals a Day" "In my family..."

Other poems on the web by Jessica Cuello:
"The Bird Girl"
"Dear Sweden 1795,"
Three poems
"Dear Creature"
"Laundromat with Single Mother"
"The Sitters"
Beauty
"Pact"
"Nursing"

Jessica Cuello's Website.

Jessica Cuello on Twitter.

About Bennington Review:

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Editor: Michael Dumanis

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August 9, 2022:   "Driving Through Mississippi After the Capitol Hill Riot" by January Gill O'Neil
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December 15, 2021:   "For the Suburban Dead" by Malachi Black
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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
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August 2, 2017:   "Paradise" by Andy Stallings
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