Poem

Waiting for Tear Gas

In our dreams the picket lines/ were picket fences. In our dreams…

  • Tung-Hui Hu

2012 Poetry Contest Winner: Sarah Crossland

Poet’s Sampler: Stefanie Wortman

Outside of reading (or rereading) Oliver Twist, we don’t typically receive or intend the word “artful” positively.

  • Stefanie Wortman
  • Gabriel Fried

House Search

Astronomers measure planetary eclipses…

  • Sean Campbell

Spool 25

my faith is/ stored in the/ wild domesticity of/ sunflowers aphids wives…

  • Matthew Cooperman

Slave (Jagger/Richards)

Darkness’s rivets weep white ink, hence the night…

  • Graham Foust

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“Blind as light”—three of the right words where wrong ones…

  • Graham Foust

Untitled

here is a rock/ or a line through a name…

  • Barbara Claire Freeman

They’re There

In memory of Frank Kermode (1919–2010)

  • Frederick Seidel

Poet’s Sampler: Adam Fitzgerald

Adam Fitzgerald was my student at Arts High in New Jersey in 2001.

  • Adam Fitzgerald
  • Joe Weil

It Is the Perpetual Today

The pool is empty; no bathers stand nearby….

  • Virginia Konchan

Essential Difference

Translated from the Greek by Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lesser

  • Kiki Dimoula

Cash for Gold

Before you dashed with me through…

  • Ernest Hilbert

To the White Woman on the Plane Who Doesn’t Understand My Discomfort When She Asks If She Can Touch My Hair

What will you do now…

  • Torrie Valentine

After Paradise Lost

When the evil army comes it is accompanied…

  • Alison Powell

Dewseaville

So much trouble/ floating in the air….

  • Daniel Tiffany

One Bird Behind One Bird

  • Amy King

Protective Balls

  • Scott Withiam

Manifesto for Tumor and Poem

  • Jo Ann Clark

We Make a Thing We Marvel

  • Mario Chard

Knecht with Nature 765-588-1130

  • Rosalie Moffett

Gold Empire

  • Rebecca Hazelton

The Naturalist in the Shower Dwells

  • Franke Varca

Eye of the Horse

  • Haines Eason
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