Does anyone use the term "flophouse" anymore? If you aren't familiar, it is a synonym for a sleazy motel. These places are everywhere and...

Marriage (motel) by Laura McCullough (published in Posit , 2018 ) Inland, just west of Atlantic City, old motels stand hunched as if...

The Death of Rachel Carson--April 14, 1964 by Donelle Dreese (published in Canary , Spring, 2017 ) The battle of living things...

I have had 16 cats throughout my life. Their back stories have been as different as their personalities. They were/are, of course, all...

Ellis Island by Joseph Bruchac (published in his 1978 book, Entering Onondaga, Cold Mountain Press) Beyond the red brick of Ellis...

Meteor, April 2020 by Amy Miller (published in Sweet Lit, 2020 )  In the year of our plague, we saw a light. Like a plane on fire,...

"See You in September" by The Happenings is just one of the many great songs written about September. See also: September by The Shins...

Season’s End by Audrey Colasanti (published in Humana Obscura , Fall/Winter 2021 ) All around, the grasses sway copper and flax, warm...

Portrait of a Figure Near Water by Jane Kenyon (published in her Collected Poems , Graywolf Press, 2005) Rebuked, she turned and ran...

Be inspired by Ruth Stone’s poem, posted on my blog today. Her portrait of Aunt Maud is detailed, fresh, and thorough. One of the major...

How Aunt Maud Took to Being a Woman  by Ruth Stone (published in Persimmon Tree and elsewhere) A long hill sloped down to Aunt Maud’s...

Summer by César Vallejo translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert Summer, I am leaving. And how they pain me, These meek hands of...

Today's poem on this very blog features some silence, as well as cows and birds making some noise. And although the speaker is out...

August 12 in the Nebraska Sand Hills Watching the Perseids Meteor Shower by Twyla Hansen (published in her 2011 book, Dirt Songs: A...