Today's poem is
"They Were Told"
from Valley Voices
Philip Kolin
is the Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi. He hs published seventeenth collections of poetry, the two most recent being White Terror, Black Trauma: Resistance Poems about Black History (Third World Press, 2023) and Evangeliaries: Poems (Angelico, 2024).
Other poems on the web by Philip Kolin:
"Skulls & Crosses"
"Autumnals"
"Missionaries"
"Sermons"
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Other poems by Valley Voices in Verse Daily:
June 30, 2025: "Flood Stage" by Larry D. Thomas
July 12, 2024: "Fool's Grapes" by Angela Ball
July 9, 2024: "Engine, or What I Am Learning from the Animals">" by Catherine Pierce
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