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Today's poem is "Ancestry"

from Kestrel

Sarah Elkins lives in southern West Virginia. Her work is forthcoming from or has appeared in Cimarron Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Quarterly West, Baltimore Review, West Trestle Review, Porter House Review, and elsewhere. Recently nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize, Sarah holds an MFA from Pacific University.

Other poems on the web by Sarah Elkins:
"Going Home"
"In Lieu of a Grand Theory"
"Body English"
"Vote Count"
"Refusal"
"Driving Home"
"From the Tall Grass"
"Brindled Night"
"Birthing"
"Of the Ones Not Afraid"
"Bow Season"

Sarah Elkins's Website.

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Poetry Editor: Elizabeth Savage
Other poems by Kestrel in Verse Daily:
February 27, 2024:   "Ancestry" 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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