Art Thief by Neal Bowers (published in his 1997 book, Words for the Taking: The Hunt for a Plagiaris, W.W. Norton) All art defines itself...

With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath by Linda Gregerson (published in her 1996 book, The Woman Who Died in Her...

Linda Gregerson's wonderful poem, "With Emma at the Ladies-Only Swimming Pond on Hampstead Heath," is today's poem on my blog. It is a...

Homecoming Tallahassee by Kavita Gandhi (published in The Loch Raven Review, Winter 2009) We passed into the city like sterile vessels...

Theory I’m Conspiring to Share by Kristin Berger (published in her 2022 book, Earthwork, published by The Poetry Box Press) Love is...

Kristin Berger's poem posted today here on this blog--which you should go and read now!--starts with the sentence "Love is truth."...

Sparus by Tolu Oloruntoba for Anthony Bourdain (published in Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 6, 2018) This neural mesh, the coral brain...

If you head over to today's blog poem, you will see I included a photo I took of Maya Angelou and Margaret Walker Alexander. Maya Angelou...

The Struggle Staggers Us by Margaret Walker Alexander (Originally published in Poetry, 1938) Our birth and death are easy hours, like...

Who Has The Whip-Hand Over Aimless Animals by Patricia Lockwood (published in Zone 3, Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall 2020) Who has the whip-hand...

Out, Out— by Robert Frost The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,...

This week's prompt is a little silly, but I think it may inspire some great results! Take the words "new" and "year" and put them in your...

Things We Will Forget about Whales by Laura Budofsky Wisniewski (published in Canary, Issue 47, Winter 2019-2020) How the shy ones sang...

Today's poem on my blog, Home on New Year's, by Dina Ben-Lev, is a great example of the cliche "When life gives you lemons, make...

Home on New Year’s by Dina Ben-Lev Never mind about being alone. At least when you need it, the bathroom’s unoccupied. Couples won’t...

Windigo by Louise Erdrich (published in her collection, Jacklight, 1984, Henry Holt Publishers) For Angela The Windigo is a flesh-eating,...

Please read Karin Gottshall's beautiful poem, Soap, posted on my blog today. Then, write a poem in which candles in a window are one of...

Soap by Karin Gottshall (published in Juked, 2013) It is full bitter winter when I begin to bleed. Too ashamed to tell. Aligning myself...

I’m not a religious person but by Chen Chen (published in his 2017 book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further...

You Tell Me You Want to Live Close to Nature by Joan Mazza (published in The Mark Lit Review, August, 2021) You plan to have acreage, a...