Poetry

66 poems

Between the Fields of Then and Now — Colin Bailes

natureecologyplace

Nostos — Colin Bailes

naturetravel

Of Beauty and Suffering: Greece, 1969–1970 — Aliki Barnstone

politicshistoryplace

They Don’t Want You to Forget Who’s in Charge — Aliki Barnstone

politicsmythdisplacement

Walking in the Spring Grasses — Fleda Brown

sciencenaturetechnology

Wild Sweet Pea — Fleda Brown

naturelovemortality

The Lake in Winter — Michael Chitwood

naturesolitude

Practicing His Signature — Michael Chitwood

familymemoryaging

Poem Written in My Grandmother’s Dress — Stephanie Choi

familyimmigrationmemory

Portrait of Louisa Cobb Thompson by an Unidentified Chinese Artist — Stephanie Choi

historyartrace

Mother Water Ash — Nicole Cooley

grieffamilyplace

New Orleans Love Poem — Nicole Cooley

loveecologygrief

Sixteen Years to the Day Another Hurricane Reverses — Nicole Cooley

grieffamilyecology

Essay Against Metaphor — Dorsey Craft

languagechildhoodart

Ode to the Stroller We Bought from Facebook — Dorsey Craft

childhoodfamilylove

Piano Fire — Claudia Emerson

musicagingmemory

Stringed Instrument Collection — Claudia Emerson

musicsolitudememory

Lucia Anna and Anna Livia—Both Named by James Joyce — Jennifer Franklin

familyillnessmortality

Parable — Jennifer Franklin

mythfamilyviolence

Relic — Hayley Graffunder

childhoodreligionmemory

Like Riding a Bike — Hayley Graffunder

childhoodfriendshipgrief

Chagall’s ‘Song of Songs III’ — Stephen Haven

artmusiclove

One of us is still alive and will prove it. — Nicole Homer

grieffamilybody

The shortest sentence in my autobiography is one word — Nicole Homer

bodydesireidentity

Archipelago — Carolina Hotchandani

familyillnessidentity

Somehow History — Carolina Hotchandani

familyhistoryimmigration

Xylophone — Jesse Lee Kercheval

mortalitychildhoodmusic

Zephyr — Jesse Lee Kercheval

solitudelanguagereligion

Azimuth — Danielle Kotrla

animalslovenature

Bluebonnets — Danielle Kotrla

naturedisplacementanimals

Your Body in Transit from Ice to Fire — Julia B. Levine

mortalityfamilyillness

‘Cimex lectularius Linnaeus’ — Julia B. Levine

bodytravelmortality

The Storm — Julia B. Levine

illnessbodyreligion

Ceremony — Ibe Liebenberg

familyidentitylanguage

CPR @ 2pm — Ibe Liebenberg

workviolencegrief

don’t bring your 6-year-old daughter to a wild horse action, just bring a horse home — Ibe Liebenberg

familychildhoodanimals

PTSD — Ibe Liebenberg

violencegriefwork

For the Last Man on Portsmouth Island — Margaret Mackinnon

racehistoryplace

Denise Low — Nonnus of Panopolis, translation from Homeric Greek by Denise Low, Denise Low, Christian Teresi

The Director — Kate Northrop

placesurreal

The Pickup’s — Kate Northrop

familyplacememory

On Translation — Kim Wooncho, translation from Hangul by Suphil Lee Park, Suphil Lee Park, Hwang Jini

Poem with Mississippi Honeybees — Rebecca Poynor

childhoodfamilyrural-life

Windowless Place — Rebecca Poynor

familynaturechildhood

Selections from ‘The Magic Life’ — Steve Scafidi

At the Prado — Heidi Seaborn

arttravelmortality

Zuihitsu of Los Angeles in Conversation with David Hockney — Heidi Seaborn

urban-lifeclassart

Darling — Mazzy Sleep

lossmemorybody

Cross-Quarter Days — Anna Tomlinson

griefchildhoodfamily

Emily Dickinson’s Maid Remembers — Alison Townsend

classworkhistory

The Zoologist’s Daughter — Alison Townsend

childhoodanimalsmemory

American Four Square — Corey Van Landingham

homehistoryplace

Blood Moon — Corey Van Landingham

technologyfamilysolitude

A Certain Epicharis — Corey Van Landingham

historygendermyth

The End of the Life of Giorgione da Castelfranco, Venetian Painter — Corey Van Landingham

illnessartlove

Hypotactic — Corey Van Landingham

timememorymyth

Portrait of Madame X — Waverley Vesely

artbodyidentity

Small Songs of the Body — Waverley Vesely

genderidentitybody

The Drain — Jonathan Weinert

naturelanguagesolitude

My Father’s Voice — Jonathan Weinert

griefmortalityfamily

‘Bed’ — Jim Whiteside

illnesssexualityart

‘The Eye Is the First Circle’ — Jim Whiteside

griefsolitudeart

Morphology — Caitlin Wilson

identitytimenature

The Offices of Grief — Caitlin Wilson

griefsolitudeurban-life

Palmetto Train — Brandon Young

technologyworkplace

Wreck Name: Unknown No. 3 — Brandon Young

placehistoryfamily