Katie Peterson is the author of This One Tree (New Issues). Today's featured poem, "Rest," is from her forthcoming collection The Accounts, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2013. Also forthcoming is her book Permission, from New Issues. She was born in California and teaches poetry at Tufts University.

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