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"...

Chimera by Vievee Francis (published in her 2016 book from TriQuarterly Books, Forest Primeval) She's not "maternal," she's dangerous....

we only took pictures of special events. Film was expensive and getting photos developed was even more costly. And we got charged for...

Advice to the Photographers of Atrocities by Judith McCombs (published in The Anthology of Women Poets, 1973, edited by Pamela Victorine,...

Poem for My Love by June Jordan (published in the 2005 collection, Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan) How do we...

Maybe it's because I posted a poem about submarine warfare. Or maybe because I always long for the ocean. It could be because I just...

Life on a Killer Submarine by President Jimmy Carter (published in North Dakota Quarterly, 60:1, 1992) I had a warm, sequestered feeling...

Ode to the Maggot By Yusef Komunyakaa (Published in his 2021 book, Every Day Mojo Songs of Earth; Farrah, Straus and Giroux) Brother of...

"The Saturday Afternoon Blues" is one of my favorite (maybe even my favorite) Wanda Coleman poems, in large part because of the sounds in...

The Saturday Afternoon Blues by Wanda Coleman (published in her book, Imagoes, 1983, Black Sparrow Press) Can kill you can fade your life...

The Lion by Conrad Aiken (published in his book Cats and Bats and Things with Wings, 1965, Atheneum, drawings by Milton Glaser) The lion...

Theme for English B by Langston Hughes The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it...

If you'd like to hear the song that goes along with today's prompt title (The Monkees' "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You"), click here....