When I Think of the Immortal Jellyfish by Christen Noel Kauffman (published in Whale Road Review , 2016, Issue 16) I think of the way...

(A terrible kaleidoscope) by Lina Kostenko, translated by Uilleam Blacker (published in published in Words Without Borders , April...

Gay Marriage Poem by Jenny Johnson (published in her 2017 book, In Full Velvet , Sarabande Books) We could promise to elope like my...

Happy Foot Sad Foot by Ruth Madievsky (published in Bat City Review , Issue 16 ) This world is equally home to sleeping dogs and...

314 by Emily Dickinson “Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never...

Risk by Elizabeth Appell And then the day came, when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to...

A Brief History of Nakedness by Flower Conroy (published in Duende , Issue 2, 2015 ) In the beginning was clay  made flesh & tingle, &...

Noon by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya The noon, a mystic dog with paws of fire, Runs through the sky in ecstasy of drouth, Licking the...

Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas  Lost at Sea, 1527 by Lisa M. Bradley (published in Strange Horizons , October 3, 2016 ) Nobody needs...

Friendship by Lucien Stryk (published in Selected Poems , 1976, The Swallow Press) He writes again. Since his divorce a fist has never...

Elegy for Myself by Stanley Moss (published in Poetry, OCT/NOV 1987) The ashes and dust are laughing, swaddled, perfumed and powdered,...

Little Star: Week 8 by Cameron Morse (published in Whale Road Review, Issue 9, Winter 2017) Embryo son, fetus daughter, wherever you are...

A Parking Lot in West Houston by Monica Youn (from her 2003 book, Barter, from Gray Wolf Press) Angels are unthinkable in hot weather...

Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money by Joyce Carol Oates (published in her 1978 book of the same name, Louisiana State...

Chicago by Carl Sandburg HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;...

To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy You strop my anger, especially when I find you in restaurant or bar and pay for the same liquid, coming...

On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood The glory of its native wood, By storms...

Love Song for Love Songs by Rafael Campo (published on the Academy of American Poets website) A golden age of love songs and we still...

Desirous of Her Liberty at This Time by Rhonda M. Ward (published in Poetry, November 2021, in The Witness Stones Project portfolio)...

Hope by Elsa Gidlow (from her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread) You would win me, woo me, win me, To be your lover, Hope! You would lure me,...