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McKenzie Lynn Tozan

"How I linger to admire, admire, admire the things of this world that are kind." – Mary Oliver

Tag: Poetry Foundation

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Reading Louise Glück: 4 Days until Halloween

October 27, 2019

“And the wife leaning out the window
with her hand extended, as in payment,
and the seeds
distinct, gold, calling”
– from Louise Glück’s “All Hallows.”
Enjoy! We have four more days until Halloween!… Read More Reading Louise Glück: 4 Days until Halloween

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Reading Rae Armantrout: 5 Days until Halloween

October 26, 2019

“Haunted, they say, believing
the soft, shifty
dunes are made up
of…” – from “Djinn” by Rae Armantrout. Enjoy! We have 5 more days until Halloween!… Read More Reading Rae Armantrout: 5 Days until Halloween

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(I’m Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert

May 9, 2017

  Hi everyone! I know it’s been a while again. But here I am: quiet little me, doing quiet not-so-little things. I’m in the process of starting a small feature series called The Curve with Write around the Bend, in preparation for their literary magazine launch next fall / winter, as well as an independent… Read More (I’m Back) Poem of the Day: Jack Gilbert

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Poem of the Day: Larissa Szporluk

February 4, 2016

  LADYBIRDS   Brilliance is a carcass on a snow-white beach. Envy never sleeps. I tell my children truthfully: a long red beard is breaking from the darkness scale. He’s chasing you because you’re new. Because he’s old and sees the town in dirty tones: violet sheep and wine-dark corn. He burns the evening rainbow… Read More Poem of the Day: Larissa Szporluk

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Poem of the Day: C.D. Wright

January 29, 2016

  PROVINCES   Where the old trees reign with their forward dark light stares through a hole in the body’s long house. The bed rolls away from the body, and the body is forced to find a chair. At some hour the body sequesters itself in a shuttered room with no clock. When a clean… Read More Poem of the Day: C.D. Wright

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Poem of the Day: Edgar Allan Poe

October 31, 2015

  THE RAVEN   Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—             While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,”… Read More Poem of the Day: Edgar Allan Poe

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