I love buffets! I can try lots of different foods in small amounts. I don't have to decide between a garden salad and a Caesar salad--I...

Silver Falls by Melody Wilson published in Cleaver Magazine, 2021 We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents...

So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan published in The Cincinnati Review, 2018 Anyone who makes tasty food has to be a good person, because...

What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis published in Revising the Storm (2014, BOA Editions) During the last 50 miles back...

Today's prompt was inspired by a poem I wrote recently. My father and I were driving together (no worries--I was the one driving!) and he...

February by Bill Christophersen published in Poetry, February 2002 The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February's...

I love odes, as you can tell by the number of odes I have posted on this blog. I especially love odes like the one by Kevin Young that I...

Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young published in Poetry, July/August 2007 The country I come from Is called the Midwest —Bob Dylan I...

History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway published in Domestic Work (2000, Graywolf Press) I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide...

How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn published in New Ohio Review, 2011, republished at Verse Daily I blame that little village in Spain,...

We are going to use today's blog poem as the basis for this week's prompt; be sure to state after Chelsea Rathburn in between your title...

If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border, in Which Country Would They Bury the Survivors? by Jeff Mock —for Margot...