Poetry

53 poems

Goodbye, Piccadilly — Ryan Black

urban-liferaceclass

A Gun to the Heart of the City — Ryan Black

racepoliticshistory

Levinas — Bruce Bond

animalshumor

Deciduous Ode — Brian Brodeur

childhoodhistorybody

Latticework — Joshua Butts

grieffamilymemory

Two Women — Holli Carrell

mythbodygender

Burn after Reading, or Ghostwriting — Kelly Cherry

mortalitylanguagehumor

Lost in Translation — Kelly Cherry

mortalityhumorlanguage

Fundamental Attribution Error — Charlie Clark

violenceworkhumor

These Are the Insects — Charlie Clark

childhoodnaturesolitude

Lapse — Leigh Anne Couch

naturelove

Wild Pigs — Leigh Anne Couch

rural-lifeanimalsclass

Leash Training — Lisa Fay Coutley

animalsloveloss

Bones in the Soil — Kwame Dawes

racehistorynature

Broth — Kwame Dawes

lovehomememory

The Vanishing — Kwame Dawes

racehistorynature

Face Blindness — Claudia Emerson

mortalitysolitudeanimals

Single Shot — Claudia Emerson

familyviolencechildhood

A Letter to the Sacred Ibis — Christopher Emery

mortalitychildhoodnature

New Ars Poetica — Rebecca Foust

artlanguage

Making Shore — Judy Halebsky

familyspiritualitypolitics

Anniversary in the Lookout Tower — Henry Hart

lovemortalitynature

A Teacher’s Story — Henry Hart

childhoodviolencefamily

77.15 Kelvin — Stephen Haven

mortalitysciencelove

End Times — Zach Hester

religionhumorpolitics

October is a Fine and Dangerous Season in America — Zach Hester

natureurban-lifespirituality

Puberty with Self-Portrait as Tiffky Doofky — James Hoch

childhoodbodyhumor

Barnum at the Grave of Charles “Tom Thumb” Stratton — Michael Hurley

spiritualitymortalityhumor

Our Father Who Art Somewhere Now, We Hope — Mark Jarman

griefdeathfamily

Old Haunts — Mark Jarman

griefmemoryplace

Another Immigrant Story — Holly Karapetkova

immigrationdisplacementfolklore

There Are Boats — Holly Karapetkova

immigrationdisplacementwater

Fragments Reconstructed from a Poem — Holly Karapetkova

desiremythtranslation

Idea Vilariño — Idea Vilariño, translation from Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval

Limits of the Burning World — Joey Kingsley

childhoodnaturememory

To My Hips, Both Removed — Gail Martin

bodyillnessaging

Mother, before Cremation/Me, Standing before a Mirror Later — Holaday Mason

griefdeathbody

Unwoven — Holaday Mason

griefdeathbody

My Daughter Gets Her Wisdom Teeth Extracted — Charlotte Matthews

familychildhoodmemory

The Lost Art of Piping Down — Edward Mayes

domestic-lifetimeart

All Must — Edward Mayes

illnessmortalitylanguage

Se Non è Vero, è Molto Ben Trovato — Edward Mayes

arttimehistory

What Our Son’s Birth Has Taught Us — Amy O'Reilly

childbirthfamilyhumor

Postmortem, Postpartum — Amy O'Reilly

childbirthfamilyhumor

Weightless — Ösel Jessica Plante

desirelanguagebody

While hunting mummies at the British Museum — Erin Rodoni

deathchildhoodfamily

Maybe It Was Summer — Erin Rodoni

childhoodmemoryviolence

I Dream I Meet Irene McKinney at the Ruined House of the Photographer — Jacob Strautmann

memoryartdream

School Bus Brocade — Jacob Strautmann

childhoodmemorytravel

Words in a Dead Girl’s Mouth — Christian Teresi

deathviolencefamily

Bees — Sidney Wade

natureanimalsecology

Return — Sidney Wade

naturesciencetime

1912: Hush Harbor — William Woolfitt

raceviolencehistory