White
Nightgown
Poems
White
Nightgown
Poems
Megan Gannon
Copyright © 2014 by Megan Gannon
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Acknowledgements
Best American Poetry 2006—“Westering” as “List of First Lines”
Crazyhorse— “Definition,” “Deep Sea”
Gulf Coast— “White Nightgown”
Laurel Review—“Testament”
Louisville Review—“Sonnet”
New Orleans Review—“Shade”
Notre Dame Review— “The Names of Birds,” “Etymology of Evening”
Pleiades— “Atlantean”
Poetry Daily March 2, 2007— “She Wearies of Wise Children”
Poetry Kanto (Japan)—“Eve’s Excuse” as “First Excuse,” “Adam’s Defense”as “First Defense,” “Late April,” “Well Water,” “Go back” as “Monologue”
Seneca Review—“Aquifer”
Sweet; A Literary Confection—“You Were Not There,” “History,” “Vows”
Sonora Review—“Myth”
Third Coast—“Westering”as “List of First Lines,” “Selenographia,” “She Wearies of Wise Children”
The Untidy Season; An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets—“Weather,” “Dungeness,” “The Dead, Dreaming,” “Daphne Digging In”
Verse Daily April 26, 2006—“Testament;” December 17, 2008—“Adam’s Defense”as “First Defense”
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