Poetry

71 poems

Against Memory — Kaveh Akbar

memoryaddictionspirituality

What I Am Looking for Is What Is Looking — Kaveh Akbar

spiritualitychildhoodidentity

Portrait of The Alcoholic with Invader and Housefly — Kaveh Akbar

addictionviolencememory

Soot — Kaveh Akbar

addictionlossspirituality

Thirstiness is Not Equal Division — Kaveh Akbar

addictionspiritualitybody

Nothing But — Brandon Amico

workidentityhumor

Planet Nine — Brandon Amico

solitudetechnologymortality

Angela — Taneum Bambrick

addictionfamilywork

Grave by the Lake — Taneum Bambrick

workmortalityanimals

Road Salvage — Taneum Bambrick

workfamilyclass

Molly McCully Brown — Molly McCully Brown, Susannah Nevison

Civil Twilight — Wendy Mitman Clarke

natureplace

Flophouse — Brandon Courtney

addictiondesirememory

Testimony — Brandon Courtney

mortalityspirituality

Breast Cancer — Kate Daniels

illnessmarriagefamily

End of the Marriage — Kate Daniels

marriagechildhoodfamily

Rethinking the Burning of Books — Kate Daniels

mortalitymemory

RoadsideAmerica.com Suggests Visiting the Ultraviolet Apocalypse — Jordan Durham

religionplacehumor

The Bus of Mrs. M. — Kristina Faust

religionplacehumor

Fressenstille — Kristina Faust

mortalityplacelanguage

A Record of Us — Kristina Faust

classhomework

Nine Martinsville Screens — Andy Fogle

familyplacerural-life

Rice Terraces, Northern Luzon — Justin Gardiner

travelplaceclass

Delta, Echo, Alpha, Romeo — Kate Gaskin

warmarriagefamily

Operations Suite — Kate Gaskin

warmarriagefamily

Poem in Which My Husband Deploys and Our Baby and I Move Back In with My Parents — Kate Gaskin

warfamilyillness

Carry On — Chris Haven

travelsolitude

We are at a feast which doesn’t love us — Chris Haven

illnessagingfamily

Mobilization, 1914 — Vedran Husić

warhistory

Tara’s Suit — Lauren Michele Jackson

mortalityviolencegender

Asteroseismology — Sara Eliza Johnson

sciencemortalitylove

Lazarus — Sara Eliza Johnson

mortalityspiritualitybody

Wormhole — Sara Eliza Johnson

sciencemortalitynature

A. Real. Uncle. TomTom. — Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

raceidentityfamily

Polyphemus, Shy & Likely on the Spectrum, Loves — Jeanne Larsen

mythidentitybody

Trans-Trans-Human Teiresias Urges—Having — Jeanne Larsen

mythgenderwar

Fish — Larry Levis

violenceidentity

Ghost Confederacy — Larry Levis

warhistorymyth

Winter Stars — Larry Levis

familyviolencememory

Distortion — Sandra Marchetti

placesolitude

Mu Puzzle — Natalie Mesnard

lovefamilyhome

Steel-Jaw — Natalie Mesnard

bodyaddictiongender

Coming Home — Ricardo Pau-Llosa

artplace

Syncretism — Ricardo Pau-Llosa

religionimmigrationplace

Approaching Afterlife — Sam Pereira

religionmortalityhumor

The Flavors of Despair — Sam Pereira

griefagingmarriage

Apology — Allan Peterson

violencefamilymortality

Blood — Allan Peterson

violencehistorybody

As a girl I believed in — Brynne Rebele-Henry

desiresexualityfamily

Niente, Niente, Niente — Brynne Rebele-Henry

desiresexualityspirituality

Ann Arbor — Francis Santana

raceidentityhumor

How to Jump Fences — Francis Santana

immigrationdisplacementfamily

Major Arcana: How My Father Got to Reno — Rob Shapiro

familyaddictionaging

Geisha Madrigal — Lisa Russ Spaar

bodydesireart

St-Germain Madrigal — Lisa Russ Spaar

desiregriefbody

Mate Madrigal — Lisa Russ Spaar

lovebodymarriage

Mistress Madrigal — Lisa Russ Spaar

lovedesire

Elegy — Molly Spencer

familychildhoodgrief

Poem that Begins on a Staircase — Molly Spencer

familyaginghome

Dear Delinquent — Ann Townsend

desirelove

O Felon Heart — Ann Townsend

desirelove

The Seal — Ann Townsend

familymemorydesire

All day, one room: me, and the cherubim . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt

illnesswarchildhood

Dear Mat, For the red scarf I'm much obliged . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt

warillnesslove

Dear Mattie, You're sweet to write to me every day . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt

warlovefamily

How we survived: we locked the doors . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt

illnessfolklorefamily

from Kyrie — Ellen Bryant Voigt

warillnesshistory

Once the world had had its fill of war . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt

warhistory

This is the double bed where she'd been born . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt

mortalityfamilyillness

Thought at first that grief had brought him down . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt

illnessmortalityrural-life

When does a childhood end? Mothers . . . — Ellen Bryant Voigt

warchildhoodfamily