Think back to an incident where you felt real fear--not anxiety or stress or despair, but fear, that mental, emotional, and physical pit...

Coyote Night Adrian C. Louis A flat tire ten miles east of Pine Ridge just past the Wounded Knee turnoff. I disembark into Siberia...

Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan Nothing is plumb, level, or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece...

Tala (ode to the Girl-Palm) by Majda Gama published in Nimrod, Spring/Summer 2019, Volume 62, Number 2 Voices of the Middle East and...

Warning: this prompt has a long-ish introduction. Many years ago, I wrote my first ode. Prior to doing so, I went to Neruda and Keats for...

for Kay Foran published in As If By Magic: Selected Poems (WFUP, 2021) was in 1963 when Miss Shannon rapping the duster on the easel’s...

Using Shirley Geok-lin Lim's poem, "Bless this Bagel," as inspiration, write a short poem that is a blessing. A food item is a great...

Bless this Bagel by Shirley Geok-lin Lim published in Walking Backwards (West End Press) Bless this bagel this Sunday morning, Stark...

published in Exploded Assembly (Sow's Ear 2019 Chapbook Competition winning chapbook) I don't want to talk about what we have lost, I am...

Today's poem, "In the ER at 1 AM" by Mary Hanarhan, relates a tragic event in first person. It is a heart-breaking poem, and although we...

In the ER at 1 AM by Mary Hanarhan published in Sugar House Review, Issue 18 You die next to the man holding a dish towel over his bloody...

Hunter's Moon Kelli Russell Agodon published in Waxwing Literary Journal The first person you fall in love with will be a deer. You will...