Poetry Archive

Poetry

Fall 2024

Tanka for Sizing Up
Manhood
Carol Barrett
Leave It in the Desert
F.S. Blake

 

Motion Capture
Ace Boggess

The Quiet Rearrangement
Maudie Bryant
Aunt Lynn’s Painted Ladies
Rebecca Dietrich

 

To What Was Once A Sparrow
Ryan Dradzynski

plu 4053
Michele Evans
Gramma’s House
E.C. Gannon
Delayed Gratification
Shannon Frost Greenstein

Man With a Parrot
Ryan Harper
Dear Water
Kristen Holt-Browning
Decompression Sickness
Katelynn Humbles

tears of the kingdom
nat raum
FUNNY THAT YOU SAY IF I EVER GO MISSING
Abhijit Sarmah
Ghost Music
Sharon Scholl

Obligations
Sharon Scholl
GREEN VELVET ALOCASIA
Hugo S. Simões
“listen you noodlers (not for catfish)”
Mike Sluchinski

#JusticeForSonyaMassey
Kendryk Youngblood
The Body
Gabriela Záborszky
Soul Deep
Jianqing Zheng

 

Fall 2023

The Soul Has No Gender
Ann Christine Tabaka

Cicatrix Shells
Adrianna Gordey

Protector
Steve Castro

Holes
Shana Ross

Encounter
Ramzi Albert Rihani

Audre
Dorothy Johnson-Laird

Wild Flower
Roodly Laurore tr. Jerrice J. Baptiste

mid September
Travis Stephens

Life in the Mississippi Delta
Jianqing Zheng

jungle concrete
Tauwan Patterson

Hypocrisy of the Lunch Hour
James B. Nicola

& this is my secret work, to be worthy
nat raum

“Contradictors”
Rich Glinnen

ICY IN SPOTS
Pamela Nocerino

Good Fortune
Marc Alan Di Martino

Fall 2022

An out of focus shot from the street of NYC.
The Incident
Angelos Berios
I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Brian Builta
Young boy sitting on man's shoulders
Barbershop
Robert Piazza
Bar pack full of men on done in linoleum cut
Drinking with Junkyard Dogs
Chase Dimock

Art Therapy
Rhienna Renée Guedry

As if in Heat
Alorah Welti

Painting of a shirtless black man facing backwards on a teal and yellow background

Crab Canon
Michael Waterson

side of domestic building with diagonal fence and crooked street sign in foreground

Hopeless Tasks
Joseph Hardy

In Coutrakon’s Laboratory
Isabelle Ylo

Inverted
Christine Davis

my crayola markers may just outlive me
Abbie Doll

Narwhal vs Unicorn
Rishi Agrawal

No Scones
Noah Berlatsky

Blue-toned drawing of poppy flowers with three red flowers blooming

Protective: A Song for Mixed Girl Hair
Daniela Paraguya Sow

Seashore with signposts

Sea
Kevin Griffin

Black and white abstract ink drawing

Ten Years After She Pawned Her Shadow
Amy Wang

Ombromanie
Karina Guardiola-Lopez

 

Fall 2021

 

about a boy
Michael Passafiume
A Pregnancy Scare in Three Parts
Cathy Cook
The Arcade
Jeffrey Alfier
Aubade to My Lover’s Tattoo
Larissa Larson
Bands of Honey
Ann Kathryn Kelly
Body Orchard
Sandeep Kumar Mishra
December (2020)
Stuti Pachisia
Eating a Blackberry in Noon Sunlight on a Wednesday in December
Larissa Larson
Girl Bird Ready
Jessica Barksdale
I Was Named After Halle’s Comet, but It’s Spelled Wrong 
Hayley Bowen
I Woke Up, I Ate Flowers
Allisa Cherry
I’ve had enough of Thomas Cromwell
Mercedes Lawry
On translation
Clara Burghelea
Pardon Me, Sir, but do you have a Moment to Talk About our Lord and Savior, Signe?
Robert Beveridge
Scorpio Cento
Lauren Campbell
Sprunny
Dana Miller
Still,
Ahrend Torrey
WWJD
Michelle Meyer

Summer 2021

 

Managing Men
Tesa Flores

 

 

Words
Daniel Pettee

 

 

Time’s Capsule
Daniel Pettee

 

 

The Opposite of Knowledge
Michael Atkinson

 

 

the absence of birds Lawdenmarc Decamora

 

 

Vacancy
Tak Erzinger

 

 

 

 

 

Calendar Girl
Tobi Alfier

 

 

Cloud Amoeba
Andrew Jones

 

 

Existential
Lee Landau

 

 

 

Awash in Grace
Matt Schroeder

 

 

Our Kind
Clare Belber

 

Spring 2021

 

 

 

Rehearsal
John Stocks

 

 

We Fell Upside Down, Into the Night
Brian Lutz

 

 

Friends
Shurouq Ibrahim

Fall 2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Things to do in Quarantine
Marion Winik (Special Contributor)

 

 

 

 

A Brief History
of Tomorrow
Rae Rozman

 

 

 

 

Boiled Rocks
Caitie Young

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generations
Caitie Young

 

 

 

 

Mamacita
Rae Rozman

 

 

 

 

Nothing’s Lost That Can’t Be Found
Paul Bluestein

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parturition
Daisy Bassen

 

 

 

 

Personals
Robert L. Penick

 

 

 

 

The Butcher & Wild Child
Stephen Scott Whitaker