C.L. Bledsoe – 2 Poems

C.L. Bledsoe 2 Poems weight the days add weight     like so much lead dropped on our     toes make noise in creaky leather shoes  …

Ken Bolton – 2 Poems

Ken Bolton 2 Poems Maybe For You Now a sackbutt, reader, is a violin, & I tell you this, & you nod having suspected as …

Yuri Hospodar

Yuri Hospodar The Education of Yuri Hospodar 1st Grade I was trapped in a beehive and could not escape. But I learned diligence and patience …

Tom Hibbard

Modern poets Best love poetry books Rhyming poems about love Tom Hibbard Gesshon Chapter 9 youngest of children going astray leads the interpreted challenge tainted …

Laura Jent

Laura Jent The Renaming Last autumn when I loved you, I named you Falling Leaf for your fly-away smiles, your shaken and ragged edges. I …

Amy Kalvig – Memorial Day

Amy Kalvig Memorial Day Picnics didn’t cease when the dry pavement became coated in mash. Former life trickled and mixed with it while the cops …

Jill Jones

Jill Jones Grapple Written on sheet sweat thick thought waking puffy sleep tricks. Dreams lean as leopards hunting & thieving dance edges wild. Your tongue …

Anthony Robinson – Important Things

Anthony Robinson Important Things It’s so difficult to be serious about love or death with so many people dying everywhere. Look!  They’re dropping like flies, …

Aaron Kiely

Aaron Kiely they say they are “pounding” “unabated fury” they say they are “pounding” I’ve been counting the days and I’ve been saying prayers three …

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa Buildings fall Buildings without lights Stare back at me How frightening space is A book a life raft A life an invention A …