The poem "Yellow Bowl" describes a scene of the speaker swaying with her tired children in the kitchen where light pours in. A yellow bowl rests heavily on the table filled with sun-warmed plums. As the speaker curves over her babies and sings, the loneliness she once felt is lost, and the quietness is simply peaceful. Rachel Contreni Flynn is a poet, corporate attorney, and professor who was born outside of Paris but grew up in Indiana. She has published poetry in several journals and received fellowships for her work. National Poetry Month is a month-long celebration in April established by the Academy of American Poets to bring wider attention to poetry, living

1. Yellow Bowl
Rachel Contreni Flynn
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2. Yellow Bowl
If light pours like water
into the kitchen where I sway
with my tired children,
if the rug beneath us
is woven with tough flowers,
and the yellow bowl on the table
rests with the sweet heft
of fruit, the sun-warmed plums,
if my body curves over the babies,
and if I am singing,
then loneliness has lost its shape,
and this quiet is only quiet.
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3. Rachel Contreni Flynn
Rachel Contreni Flynn was born outside Paris, grew up in a
small Indiana farming town and now teaches poetry and practices
law near Chicago. She studied history and journalism at Indiana
University, and obtained her law degree from Loyola University
in Chicago. She is a corporate attorney for a Fortune 500
company, specializing in employment law. She received her
MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in 2001. Her work
has appeared in Barrow Street, Florida Review, Epoch,
Washington Square, Mississippi Review, and Forklift, Ohio. In
2003, Flynn received an Artists Fellowship from the Illinois Arts
Council and her work was selected by Stephen Dunn as winner of
the 2003 Dorset Prize. Her first book, Ice, Mouth, Song is
scheduled for publication by Tupelo Press. Flynn lives in
Mundelein, Illinois with her husband and daughter.
Image source : http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/images/2007/flynn.jpg
Poet information: http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/29-1/flynn.html

4. National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of
poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The
concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media
— to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic
heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic
range and concern.

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