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Marjorie Saiser

Nebraska

Marjorie Saiser is the author of six poetry collections, including The Woman in the Moon (2018), Beside You at the Stoplight (2010), Road Trip (2003), and Lost in Seward County (2001). Her poetry has been published in former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." She lives in Nebraska.

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I Save My Love

By Marjorie Saiser

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He Taught Me to Drive

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Weren't We Beautiful

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Final Shirt

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The Print the Whales Make