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Today's poem is "So Below"

from Beloit Poetry Journal

Jessica Tanck is the author of Winter Here (UGA Press, 2024), winner of the Georgia Poetry Prize. Her work appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, Gulf Coast, and Kenyon Review, among others. Jess lives and writes in Salt Lake City, where she is a Ph.D. student in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.

Other poems by Jessica Tanck in Verse Daily:
November 20, 2023:   "Samson et Dalila, Op. 47" by Jessica Tanck   "I would wonder over it often: the welt..."

Other poems on the web by Jessica Tanck:
Two poems
Two poems
"Morning Sickness"
"Eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos at Mom's Grave"
"Long Division"

Jessica Tanck's Web site.

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