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Today's poem is "The Man Who Never Once Looked Up and Saw a Star his Whole Life"

from Kestrel

Michael Mark is the author of Visiting Her in Queens is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet which won the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize. His recent poems appear in Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, The Southern Review, The Sun, 32 Poems.

Other poems by Michael Mark in Verse Daily:
June 3, 2017:   "Water and Boy" "Now I know..."

Other poems on the web by Michael Mark:
"Estelle"
"First Date"
Three poems
"A Daily Practice"
Five poems
"for me it was the trees"
Two poems
Three poems

Michael Mark's Website.

Michael Mark on Twitter.

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Kestrel * Department of Humanities * Fairmont State University * 1201 Locust Avenue * Fairmont, West Virginia, 26554
Poetry Editor: Elizabeth Savage
Other poems by Kestrel in Verse Daily:
February 28, 2024:   "Ancestry" by Sarah Elkins
February 27, 2024:   "The Man Who Never Once Looked Up and Saw a Star his Whole Life" by Martha Silano
July 25, 2023:   "It Is Advantageous to Place on the Table a [Hollow Figurine] of Apollo, with Bibliomancy" by Lesley Wheeler
July 20, 2023:   "Edward Hopper's 'Seven A.M.', 1948" by Michael Boccardo
July 18, 2023:   "Visitation" by Eric Pankey
December 1, 2022:   "The Languorous Flipside of Fire" by John Minczeski

May 20, 2022:   "Resentment" by Ace Boggess
May 14, 2022:   "Resentment" by Al Maginnes
May 13, 2022:   "Cultivar from the West" by Angie Macri
November 28, 2021:   "Another Story of Ash" by Rick Campbell
November 27, 2021:   "Ars Poetica II" by Dean Rader
November 26, 2021:   "Wine with Everything Was What I Said" by Laura Sobbott Ross

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