NEW BEGINNINGS ARE OFTEN DISGUISED AS PAINFUL ENDINGS--LAO TZU Although it has officially been spring for weeks, it has only felt like...

End of April by Phillis Levin published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins (and posted here) Under a cherry tree I found a robin’s...

Lower Mathematics by Judy Brackett published in Commonweal Magazine, January 2021 The little boy shouts "To infinity and beyond!" and...

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white,...

Was William Shakespeare actually born in April 23, 1564? We don't really know, but this is the date that is generally agreed upon for...

Shakespearean Sonnet by R.S. Gwynn With a first line taken from the tv listings A man is haunted by his father's ghost. Boy meets girl...

I hope you read today's blog poem, "Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew" by Pattiann Rogers before trying this prompt (if not, go read...

Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew by Pattiann Rogers published in her book, Splitting and Binding, and in Orion Magazine Out among the wet...

the way and the way things are by nila northSun gramma thinks about her grandchildren they’re losing the ways don’t know how to talk...

Use of the term "Easter Eggs" to refer to something hidden is, according to Dictionary.com, from the 1980s and the video games that I...

Spilled Sugar by Thylias Moss I cannot forget the sugar on the table. The hand that spilled it was not that of my usual father, three...

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my...

First, if you are not aware of what is happening to some literary journals, click here and here and read these articles about AI-written...

From the Index To Breaking Up For Dummies by Philip Memmer published in his chapbook Greatest Hits #262 (Pudding House Press) A abandoned...