Her Perfect Dad by Kathleen Aguero (published in her 2013 book, after that, Tiger Bark Press) I'm Carson Drew. I disappear, don't...

What are your favorite YA books from when you were young? Nancy Drew? Darius the Great Is Not Okay? The Poet X? Anne of Green Gables?...

Seeing the Eclipse in Maine by Robert Bly (published in 1997, and here) It started about noon. On top of Mount Batte, We were all...

Path of Totality by Niina Pollari (published in her 2022 book, Path of Totality, by Soft Skull Press) Something set you into motion. A...

First, please read Niina Pollari's stunning poem that is posted on my blog today. Then go buy her book. Then come back here and do this...

A Blessing by James Wright (published in Above the River: The Complete Poems) Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, Twilight...

Ballad by Sonia Sanchez (published in her 2007 book, Homegirls & Handgrenades, White Pine Press) (after the spanish) forgive me if i...

There are so many upcoming celestial events! A total solar eclipse on April 8. Saturn and Mars will appear very close together in the...

Girl Scouts Visit the FBI, circa 1975 by Jane Satterfield (published in The Common, Issue 3, 2012) Fox’s series the X-Files starred David...

Can You Really Get By on Three Chords and the Truth? by Ace Boggess (published in Jenny, Issue 015, Fall 2018) I like to think of the...

Of course you can! Just a smattering: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (science fiction novel) Will You Still Love...

Reading Late Anabasis by Ishion Hutchinson published in Connotation Press There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. —Thomas...

Living Room by Marie Ponsot The window’s old & paint-stuck in its frame. If we force it open the glass may break. Broken windows cut, and...

Are you wishing to try a form poem but don't know where to start? Are sonnets too stuffy, villanelles too rhyme-y, and sestinas just too...

Haiku by Natsume Sōseki Over the wintry Forest, winds howl in rage With no leaves to blow.

The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer: Postscript by Hildegarde Flanner (originally published in a review of the book The Letters of Robert...

Today's poem on my blog was written in response to a book review. The book, The Letters of Robert Oppenheimer, contains the...

The Pivotal Kingdom by Alice Fulton (published in her 1994 book, Powers of Congress, David R. Godine, Publisher) A head capsized the wild...

A Voice Speaking Out by Faye Turner-Johnson (published in Sky Island Journal, Issue 7, Winter 2009) I have a voice that roams wild...

In today's blog poem, "A Voice Speaking Out," by Faye Turner-Johnson, the speaker begins by telling us, "I have a voice that roams while"...