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Today's poem is "Memory"

from The Southern Review

Kevin Prufer's newest books are The Fears (Copper Canyon Press, 2023) and Sleepaway: a Novel (Acre Books, 2024). Among his eight other books are Churches, which was named one of the best ten books of 2015 by The New York Times, and How He Loved Them, which was long-listed for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book from the American literary press. Prufer's work appears widely in Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Paris Review, and The New Republic, among others. He is Professor of English at The University of Houston, where he also directs The Unsung Masters Series, a book series devoted to rediscovering great, long forgotten authors. He also teaches at the Lesley University Low-Residency MFA Program.

Other poems by Kevin Prufer in Verse Daily:
July 26, 2022:   "The Committee on Village Security" "We locked him in a cage..."
August 26, 2019:   "Archaeology" "I went to the basement where my father kept his skulls...."
November 22, 2013:   "Alligators" "How at the VFW bar, he rolled up his sleeves...."
May 25, 2008:   "The Party by the Lake" "Such a time we had at the lake those days..."
September 21, 2006:   "Elegy: Airport" " Then there was snow..."
August 1, 2006:   "Dead Soldier" " Where the living are, no one's missed him yet...."

Other poems on the web by Kevin Prufer:
"And He Will Guide My Craft"
Two poems
Eigth poems
Three poems
"In the Wheat Field"
"Churches"
Three poems
"The Vast Economies"

Kevin Prufer's Website.

Kevin Prufer on Twitter.

About The Southern Review:

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