Poetry

74 poems

When the Time Comes — Dilruba Ahmed

griefdeathreligion

Untitled (Against the slope) — Ralph Angel

desiresolitudenature

Untitled (the dream is crying ) — Ralph Angel

dreamdesirebody

Untitled (I stared at the glint) — Ralph Angel

desireplacesolitude

Untitled (When time settles) — Ralph Angel

timeurban-lifesolitude

Exile in a Thrift-Store Landscape — Christopher Bakken

artdisplacementnature

Canción de Cuna — Jacqueline Balderrama

childhoodimmigrationfamily

Zero, 2018 — Jacqueline Balderrama

immigrationpoliticsdisplacement

Anthology: a collection of flowers — Joan Baranow

agingmemorynature

From This Distance — Joan Baranow

griefnaturetime

AM/FM — Ash Bowen

marriagemusiclove

Birds and the Way They Understand Love — Ash Bowen

lovenatureloss

Going to Your Funeral in a Vee-Eight Ford — Ash Bowen

marriagemusicmortality

In Dreams, My Ancestors — Ronda Piszk Broatch

memorywarfamily

Instead of Death I Welcome the Stranger — Ronda Piszk Broatch

griefdeathfamily

Arrow — Sumita Chakraborty

mythsciencecreation

Essay on the Order of Time — Sumita Chakraborty

timebodynature

Hitchhiking at Nineteen — Adam Chiles

childhoodmemorysolitude

The Letter — Adam Chiles

familywargrief

Shadow — Adam Chiles

grieffamilydream

First Loss — Michael Chitwood

griefchildhoodfamily

The Potato Eaters — Michael Chitwood

rural-lifefamilywork

Not Before but After Us — Norman Dubie

warviolencehistory

Elijah Fed by Ravens — Kristina Erny

religionmortalitymyth

Elijah and the Widow — Kristina Erny

religionmythmortality

Peripheries — Kathryn Haemmerle

illnesstimechildhood

Mid-February at Navy Pier — Kathryn Haemmerle

memorychildhoodplace

Why I Left Academe for Massage Therapy — Erin Lambert Hartman

workbodyidentity

An Apology to Edgar Allan Poe — Erin Lambert Hartman

humorhistorylanguage

By You — Erin Lambert Hartman

naturesolitudeplace

[box of light with Keats in it] [& an iPhone] [& a boy] — Dennis Hinrichsen

technologyviolencechildhood

Pain Is Never Done — Henry Israeli

mortalitywarart

So Many Promises — Henry Israeli

lovebodymyth

Between the Trees — Henry Israeli

warfamilymemory

Agnostic Wandering — Cyan James

religionidentitymusic

Old Spice & Cordite — Cyan James

warviolence

Whiteout — L.A. Johnson

naturedesiresolitude

Aftermath — Anna Leigh Knowles

griefnaturememory

Escape Plans — Anna Leigh Knowles

violencefearwork

On Lockdown — Anna Leigh Knowles

violencechildhoodfear

Fish — Larry Levis

violenceidentityurban-life

En Plein Air — William Logan

timeplacehistory

Daumier, ‘Man on a Rope’ — William Logan

artmortality

For Colored Kids Building Up Their Bones — Amber McBride

racechildhoodurban-life

Julio Monteiro Martins — Julio Monteiro Martins, Julio Monteiro, translation from Italian by Donald Stang, Helen Wickes

On Learning That I Can No Longer See the Stars — Darren Morris

illnessmortalitynature

Reading Bruno Schulz on Rosh Hashanah — Rachel Neve-Midbar

religionmortalitymusic

Rainie Oet — Sophia Parnok, translation from Russian by Rainie Oet, Sophia Parnok translation from Russian by Rainie Oet

Diorama (there is a love story) — Catie Rosemurgy

lovedesiremyth

Diorama (map legend) — Catie Rosemurgy

mythhomedesire

Diorama (a moment with the doctor) — Catie Rosemurgy

desirebodymyth

Diorama (the young solider returning to duty) — Catie Rosemurgy

warviolencemyth

Diorama (trapper standing over a young woman in a blue dress) — Catie Rosemurgy

mythdesirebody

Diorama (young woman lying on the ground in a blue dress) — Catie Rosemurgy

mythdesirebody

Interior with Mickey Mantle — Ira Sadoff

agingmarriageidentity

Self-Portrait With Michelangelo — Ira Sadoff

artcreationdesire

The Literary Scholar — Corinna McClanahan Schroeder

humorlanguageidentity

In the Museum of the Nineteenth Century, the Lights Are Coming On — Corinna McClanahan Schroeder

historygenderurban-life

Pteridomaniac — Corinna McClanahan Schroeder

naturehistorygender

The Turtle Cure — Cherene Sherrard

mythecologyfolklore

Orvieto — Ron Smith

travelillnessmortality

Finding Other Uses On Earth — Alison Stine

lovenaturememory

‘Swan Lake’ with Dostoevsky — Svetlana Turetskaya

artlovesolitude

A Soviet Paining by Nikolai Solomin ‘She Did Not Wait’ — Svetlana Turetskaya

warartlove

Bystanders — Kathleen Winter

violencefearurban-life

Killarney — Kathleen Winter

identityplacefolklore

Trespass — Kathleen Winter

placehistoryrural-life

And So the Beauty of Lilies Falls on Angels and Men — Annie Woodford

illnessfamilynature

Great Road — Annie Woodford

placeurban-lifeclass

Borderless — Jenny Xie

identitydesiretravel

Ongoing — Jenny Xie

identitysolitudeaging

Phnom Penh Diptych: Dry Season — Jenny Xie

travelsolitudeurban-life

Benediction Remembering Sunrise and Fawn, with a Trip to the Planetarium — Maya Jewell Zeller

illnessfamilychildhood

spell for their belly buttons/ with a dictionary clogging its windpipe — Maya Jewell Zeller

languagebodyhumor