Poetry

66 poems

Season — Jeff Baker

familyrural-lifechildhood

On the Difficulty of Pumping High-Octane Gasoline into a ’39 Buick Century without Spilling a Drop — Roy Bentley

familyhistorychildhood

Landscape: the moon — Alice Bolin

desirelanguagelove

Landscape: stages — Alice Bolin

lonelinessmemorydesire

Landscape: trillium — Alice Bolin

naturedesirebody

The Tree of Forgetting — Bruce Bond

griefmortalityfamily

White Dwarves — Dexter L. Booth

mortalitysciencetime

May 13th, 2012 — Dexter L. Booth

violencegenderfamily

Love in the Time of Revolution — Dexter L. Booth

lovesolitudebody

To a Girl Named Siberia — Ellen Caswell

identityhumorsolitude

Stalker — Ellen Caswell

religionviolenceidentity

Story Problem — Ellen Caswell

familyidentitychildhood

[The boss rises up the boss keeps her job] — Victoria Chang

workclasspolitics

[Some days one day every day I am over like the] — Victoria Chang

familyworktechnology

[Once the boss fired a twin the twin was torn in] — Victoria Chang

workclassfamily

[There are two ways maybe four there are] — Victoria Chang

politicsviolenceclass

February Angst — Lisa Cihlar

grieffamilyfolklore

Girl at Nine and Again at Thirteen — Lisa Cihlar

childhoodnaturerural-life

Rouse — Lisa Cihlar

lovenaturetime

Dear Claudia— — Claudia Cortese

bodyfamilyviolence

Lucy, — Claudia Cortese

bodyfamilyviolence

Lucy wraps salmon — Claudia Cortese

bodyfamilyviolence

Portraits of a Former Lover — Dana Crum

lovememoryurban-life

Irene Virga Salafia — Claudia Emerson

marriagemortalitydesire

Limb Factory — Claudia Emerson

warbodyreligion

The Ocularist — Claudia Emerson

bodyworkart

The Opposite House — Claudia Emerson

The Clouds Are Up to My Neck — Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

In the Dream I Am Visiting — Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

Epithalamion — Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

Negative Theology — Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

First Fruit — Carrie Green

Fannie Burlingame’s Herbarium — Carrie Green

Appetite: Handbills and Thumbnails — Susan Grimm

Locked Up Tight — Susan Grimm

Steam from the Blue Closet — Susan Grimm

Li Po Loved Two Things — Judy Halebsky

Gauguin Among the Tahitians — Sean Patrick Hill

The Ball of Human Cells Speaks to the Double Helix — Cynthia Marie Hoffman

The Homunculus Speaks from the Bed of the Ovarian Dermoid Cyst — Cynthia Marie Hoffman

The Lambs Wool Strap Speaks from the Gurney, 1915 — Cynthia Marie Hoffman

No Midwives Can Do What Angels Can — Cynthia Marie Hoffman

Learn to Fight — Kristin Marie Kostick

Handpick the Lame Horses from the Able-Bodied — Kristin Marie Kostick

Will I Come Back as a Moose or an Aardvark or Something? — Kristin Marie Kostick

You Have Nothing to Fear — Dana Levin

Moo and Thrall — Dana Levin

Sleeper’s Almanac — Willie Lin

Small-Town Suicide — Clay Matthews

Everything Happens to Me — Sebastian Matthews

Treading — Karen Meadows

familyagingtime

The Hungering Eucalyptus — Miguel Murphy

grieflovebody

Archaic Archaic Torso of the Sun God Apollo as a Star Apple, an Oil Lamp, a Broken Mirror — Stanley Plumly

artmortalitymyth

Winter Coastal Haiku — Stanley Plumly

naturetime

After the Tzeltal — Stanley Plumly

mythfolkloremortality

engagement — Corey Van Landingham

marriagelanguagedanger

I. To Have & To Hold — Corey Van Landingham

lovelossanimals

II. To Have & To Hold — Corey Van Landingham

lossmemorybody

III. To Have & To Hold — Corey Van Landingham

solitudenaturetime

Lost Boy — Ellen Bryant Voigt

At a Press Conference Concerning the Invasion — David Wagoner

Aquatic Herd — Lisa Williams

Brooding Eels — Lisa Williams

To an Exterminator — Lisa Williams

Midwinter — Chelsea Woodard

St. Zita — Chelsea Woodard