Since Nine O’Clock by Constantine P. Cavafy Half past twelve. Time has gone by quickly since nine o'clock when I lit the lamp and sat...

Read Catherine Klatzker's award-winning poem in today's other blog post. Then, write a poem in second person. Although you should write...

What It Was Like by Catherine Klatzker published in Split This Rock 2016, 2nd Prize in their Abortion Rights Poetry Contest The world...

The Tool Shed by Kasey Jueds published in Superstition Review How can I explain the way I kept coming back—to that box of trapped shadows...

With climate change making our weather less hospitable and a heat wave roasting much of the planet, heat is on my mind. And it is the...

Four Definitions For the Use of Time by Carolyn Moore published in Cider Press Review 1 Your book club neighbor chats across the fence of...

Moths & Origami Children by Ojo Taiye published in Whale Road Review, Winter 2018 i taste my mother’s sickness in my mouth & analyze the...

Disasters happen daily, but unless they are especially horrific, international, or deadly, we might not hear about them. In our online...

The Man Moth by Elizabeth Bishop published in The Complete Poems, 1926-1979 Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for “mammoth.” Here, above,...

The Empty Pool by Sue Ellen Thompson published in The Summerset Review, Spring 2010 This is the place where my sisters and I lay all...

Today's poem on my blog is called "Love Poem," but it is not a Hallmark card sentiment. No cliche images of hearts, no angsty desires...

Love Powm by Margot Wizansky published in Poetry East, 2004 All winter you contract-- one tiller, one boat, one bay, one light that shows...

Good Fences Wolf Conservation Center, NY by Dana Sonnenschein published in Kosmos Journal Something there is that doesn’t love a wall—...