Poetry

50 poems

Mother — Dilruba Ahmed

familyimmigrationmemory

Roulade — Dilruba Ahmed

familyimmigrationidentity

Days Spent in One of the Other Worlds — DADan Albergotti

mythsolitudespirituality

Cruelty — CBCraig Beaven

workclassnature

American Landscape Painting — CBCraig Beaven

violencefamilyart

My Father and the Quail — CBCraig Beaven

familymemoryviolence

Usually My Dreams Mean Nothing — EBElinor Benedict

grieffamilymortality

Meriwether and the Magpie — Linda Bierds

historynaturescience

Girdling — Victoria Chang

familyfolklorenature

Salvinia Molesta — Victoria Chang

ecologynaturework

Two Trains — Victoria Chang

lovemarriagehumor

Necessary Authorities — DCDaniel Coudriet

politicsplacenature

Three Divinations — MDMichelle Detorie

folklorereligiongender

Paperwhites — MDMichelle Detorie

naturegriefbody

Undertow — MDMichelle Detorie

lovenatureloss

Tableau — RDRebecca Dunham

religionmortality

Juliet and Air — NTNancy Taylor Everett

childhoodbodyidentity

Juliet and Dark — NTNancy Taylor Everett

childhoodsolitudeidentity

Juliet and Fire — NTNancy Taylor Everett

childhoodnaturefolklore

Juliet and Heaven — NTNancy Taylor Everett

childhoodillnessbody

Eradication of Exotic Pests — RGRichard Garcia

lovehumor

Ashes of Roses — RGRichard Garcia

lovehumormarriage

From a Distance, I Saw Bird — SGSteve Gehrke

lovebodyviolence

From The Machine Gunner’s Letters — SGSteve Gehrke

warviolencehistory

Caravaggio’s The Death of the Virgin — SGSteve Gehrke

artreligionviolence

Redwood — DGDouglas Goetsch

naturetravelsolitude

Night Crabbing — James Hoch

familychildhoodnature

Kismet — LJLesley Jenike

lovemythreligion

Three Go to the Zoo — LJLesley Jenike

illnessmortalityidentity

In 1967 — Larry Levis

historynaturememory

Safe From Trains — Ada Limón

marriageloveviolence

Still Life — DLDave Lucas

agingurban-lifehumor

Epistle to Elsner on the Eve of his 34th Birthday — KMKaryna McGlynn

workagingfriendship

Under the Volente Raft — KMKaryna McGlynn

naturehumorbody

Disposing of the Body — Allan Peterson

mortalityhistorybody

Of Course — Allan Peterson

mortalityfolklorespirituality

Self Knowledge — Allan Peterson

identitymortalityscience

Ordinarily — Allan Peterson

artreligionlanguage

Florida Ghazals — SRSpencer Reece

placesexualitynature

Rothko’s Earth and Green, 1955 — David Roderick

artmemoryimmigration

The Carriage Road — David Roderick

childhoodnaturememory

Red Elegy — Peter Jay Shippy

childhoodecologynature

Memory of What I Should Regret — CSChristine Stewart

sexualitydesirememory

National Poetry Month — CSChristine Stewart

religionchildhoodillness

Selektion: The Painted Girl — STSusan Terris

warviolencechildhood

Alef: Seeding the Alphabet — EWEmily Warn

religionlanguagespirituality

Beit: The House of Musing — EWEmily Warn

religionlanguagespirituality

Sanctuary in the Dome City — EWEmily Watson

religionsolitudespirituality

In the Yeats Class, Summer Term — Carolyne Wright

lovememoryfamily

Jamaican Kids on a Painted Skiff — DZDave Zoby

rural-lifeplacehumor