Poetry

60 poems

Monosonnet for Rodents, Interrupted — Sherman Alexie

humorhome

Powwow Ghazal — Sherman Alexie

identitymusicfamily

Subway Song, Interrupted — Sherman Alexie

travelurban-lifehumor

Mother’s Home Ritual for Quenching Fires — M.L. Brown

familyhome

It’s Love that Pushes Stockings Down, M. L. Brown — M.L. Brown

desirebodylove

Antidote to the Chaos of Imagination — Christopher Burawa

placesolitudenature

Condolence for the Blind Mori — Christopher Burawa

griefspiritualitymortality

The Apple Pipe — Kevin Cantwell

addictionfamilyviolence

Outdoor Room — A. V. Christie

desirememorybody

Signs — A. V. Christie

languagedesirehumor

Willingly — A. V. Christie

childhoodnaturefamily

Twenty Line Sonnet — Peter Cooley

timemortalitylanguage

During the Final Scene — Lisa Fay Coutley

lovetimemarriage

Why to Bury a Parrot — Lisa Fay Coutley

grieflossmemory

Old Country — Julie Danho

warimmigrationfamily

A Soul Addresses Her Beloved in the Non-Green Zone — Chard deNiord

grieflovewar

Natural Bridge — Leah Dunham

naturebodysolitude

Doppler — Leah Dunham

bodyillnessidentity

Beirut — Katie Ford

warhistoryfamily

Easter Evening — Katie Ford

religionspiritualityloss

Little Goat — Katie Ford

religionanimalsnature

Sighting — Katie Ford

religionspiritualityviolence

The Singing — Katie Ford

griefmortalityplace

In a Time of Excess and Hopeless Transport — Jennifer H. Fortin

technologyurban-lifelove

A System Pamphlet (With Illustration of How They Hide) — Jennifer H. Fortin

desiretechnologyidentity

Mined Muzzle Velocity — Jennifer H. Fortin

warworklanguage

Near Sleep in a Smoky Room — DHDanielle Hanson

solitudebodyidentity

Alice Coltrane Discovers the World G/god is B/born — Ruth Ellen Kocher

musicreligionmyth

string theory — Ruth Ellen Kocher

identitylovescience

Linnets — Larry Levis

familyviolencemyth

the dead worm their way through glacial till — Sandy Longhorn

mortalitygriefrural-life

Slow Saunter of Wither — Dawn Lonsinger

animalsnaturebody

Fractured Aubade : The Gods of Dawn :: Eating Grapes: — Darren Morris

lovemythfriendship

As I Remember It — Elisabeth Murawski

memoryviolencebody

February Jinks, Rodney Nelson translating Ron Winkler — Rodney Nelson

translationlanguageillness

Light or Dark Speech — William Olsen

languagesolitude

Self-Portrait in a Tourist’s Snapshots, Aliscon Pelegrin — APAlison Pelegrin

placefamilyidentity

Imogen Cunningham’s “My Father At Sixty” — Paisley Rekdal

artfamilyaging

Laura Gilpin’s “Navajo Shepherd Boy” — Paisley Rekdal

artnatureplace

The Monkey Whose Job It Used to Be to Sit on Miss Peach’s Shoulder Takes Up Olde Timely Music — Catie Rosemurgy

humormemorymusic

Abiquiú — Maureen Seaton

naturesolitudemortality

Sex & Petroglyphs — Maureen Seaton

desirehumormyth

Self-Portrait & Other Calculations — Peter Jay Shippy

identityhumorlanguage

Colony — RTR. T. Smith

artpoliticshumor

Fiddle-dee-dee — RTR. T. Smith

historywarplace

Home Ownership and Self Defense — RTR. T. Smith

homefamilyreligion

Nightlife — Sofia M. Starnes

naturesolitudetime

Disabled Odyssey — Shirley Stephenson

illnessbodymortality

Practice — Shirley Stephenson

illnessbodychildhood

Tidal Volume — Shirley Stephenson

illnessmortalitybody

“I” — GSGerald Stern

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Title, Contributor — CNContributor Name

Dark Ages — Katrina Vandenberg

illnessfamilyart

D Ghazal — Katrina Vandenberg

languagearthistory

Perennial — Laura Van Prooyen

lovefamilymemory

Februarsuiten — Ron Winkler

languagenature

House — Carolyne Wright

homefamilytranslation

Mysteries of Memory — Carolyne Wright

memorygrieftranslation

And Ever — Jake Adam York

raceviolencehistory