Poetry

89 poems

GMOs — JAJohn Allman

sciencenaturelove

Jacob’s Limp — JAJohn Allman

mythreligionfamily

Selfie — JAJohn Allman

technologysciencetime

Thrift Shop — JAJohn Allman

illnessmemoryplace

Vernissage — JAJohn Allman

warfamilyart

In the City of Fire — Hala Alyan

Retrieval — Hala Alyan

[Calico gray, rag-tag she chose our crawl space] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalshomenature

[If you count the catalogue of cats] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalsmemoryfamily

[After I dumped the failed jelly by the rotten] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalsnatureloss

[Edith Södergran, also holding the leash] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalsartsolitude

[“On foot”] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalsartillness

[A lens of cloud, a sighting around a sheet] — TATalvikki Ansel

illnessanimalsfamily

[She is back, the one-eyed cat, trapped] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalschildhoodnature

[They know their terrain, their paths] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalsnaturehome

[In a week they are gone, did the mother] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalslosschildhood

[Coming back into the yard something’s off] — TATalvikki Ansel

animalsnaturehome

Allegiance — Bruce Bond

childhoodwarreligion

Ventriloquist — Bruce Bond

mythartdesire

The Homemade Fireworks — Greg Brownderville

familycrimerural-life

All in All, Another Productive Day in the Thicket of Disappointment — Sue D. Burton

The Woman Who Is to Be Sawn in Half — Sue D. Burton

Somehow Myself Survived the Night — Sue D. Burton

The Woman Who Is Sawn in Half Thinks about Elephants: Marianne Moore Feeding Them Bread at the Circus & Houdini Who Made One Disappear (& Was Not "Uncomfortably Popular" with Them as Was Miss Moore) — Sue D. Burton

What Is It Like to Get Punched in the Face? — Gary Dop

humorbodyviolence

Ink — Norman Dubie

natureplacehistory

Coffey Still — Barbara Duffey

naturerural-lifetime

Shelterbelt — Barbara Duffey

griefnaturerural-life

Not Far Underground — Keith Ekiss

illnessurban-lifememory

I say arid and the room says storm — John Fry

natureplaceecology

the wilderness rose as incense — John Fry

religionnaturegender

How We Take Our Grief — Kimberly Grey

grieffamilytime

c(on)ta(in)er — Vanessa Couto Johnson

animalsdesirebody

o(vers)ight — Vanessa Couto Johnson

desireidentityurban-life

The Bird Watchers — Kirun Kapur

In the Rub’ al Khali — Kirun Kapur

Motorcycles — Kirun Kapur

Sea Anemone — Kirun Kapur

1900 Gibbon Street — Gregory Kimbrell

The Age of Miracles — Gregory Kimbrell

Between the Something and the Nothing . . . — Gregory Kimbrell

The Succulent Flowers — Gregory Kimbrell

Getting the Baby to Sleep — Keetje Kuipers

familypoliticschildhood

At the Arlee Pow-Wow with My Unborn Child — Keetje Kuipers

familyidentitychildhood

Shadow — Emily Leithauser

naturemortalityanimals

Elegy with a Thimbleful of Water in the Cage 1 — Larry Levis

griefmemorytime

Garden Quarrel — Sandra Lim

mythreligiongender

Certainty [Edward Taylor . . . ] — Sandra Lim

religionartfamily

Human Interest Story — Sandra Lim

grieffamilydisplacement

Certainty [Perhaps you can . . . ] — Sandra Lim

familygriefmemory

Buttons — Ruth Madievsky

humorsolitudetime

On Memory — Ruth Madievsky

memorygriefbody

Après le Déluge, or How to Return 1 — Peter Makuck

griefnaturesolitude

Family Music — Peter Makuck

grieffamilymusic

Soul's Colony — Carly Joy Miller

griefanimalsnature

Nightshift as a Waitress: When the Regular Arrives — Carly Joy Miller

workdesireurban-life

Fear of Stones and Air — Darren Morris

grieffamilysolitude

[Near dusk, near a path, near a brook] — Simone Muench, Dean Rader

griefnaturemyth

[How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder] — Simone Muench, Dean Rader

naturetechnologypolitics

[Shadow, you’ll travel to what waits ahead] — Simone Muench, Dean Rader

griefdesiremortality

A Beaver and His Pile of Wood — Luisa Muradyan

humorartidentity

Firefly — Luisa Muradyan

naturebodymemory

Vera Beneath the Floor — Luisa Muradyan

memorychildhoodimmigration

They May Only Go Where They’re Bid — E.B. Paige

mythfolkloredesire

The Razor in the Apple — E.B. Paige

desirereligionliterature

What Light Does — Patty Paine

solitudetimenature

What You Sow — Patty Paine

memorynaturegrief

Confession — Dannye Romine Powell

familychildhoodgrief

Snow — Dannye Romine Powell

grieflosshome

Tunnel of Green — Dannye Romine Powell

memoryplacehome

Hard Water — Jim Redmond

politicsmemoryclass

Let There Be — Jim Redmond

religiontechnologylanguage

Epithalamion — Jordan Rice

genderidentityfamily

Latent — Jordan Rice

genderidentitydisplacement

Pre-Op — Jordan Rice

genderfamilybody

Kuwento ng Pag-Ibig — Louie Jon A. Sanchez

lovewarfolklore

Love Story — Louie Jon A. Sanchez

lovewarfolklore

The Missouri Compromise — Austin Segrest

warhistoryplace

Yellowhammer — Austin Segrest

animalshistoryidentity

Accidental — Lisa Russ Spaar

bodytimeidentity

Two Weeks — Lisa Russ Spaar

griefnaturesolitude

The Wind Wears a Red Leaf — Lisa Russ Spaar

griefillnessmortality

Feeding the Hounds — Catherine Staples

animalsrural-lifemortality

Moon Blind — Catherine Staples

animalsillnessnature

Sleeping in the Good Bed — Catherine Staples

memorynaturechildhood

Harvest Fair — Tess Taylor

rural-lifehumorplace

Last Hay — Tess Taylor

rural-lifenaturework

The Other City — Ryan Teitman

displacementwarfamily

Quiz: Eros — Chelsea Wagenaar

desirelovelanguage