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A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend by Richard Garcia (published in the anthology, Urban Nature: Poems About Wildlife in the...

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our...

Lament for the Invisible Lesbians by Alison Binney published in Impossible Archetype, Issue 6 You hid yourselves so well, invisible ones,...

Eurydice by Ocean Vuong published in The Nation (January 28, 2014) It’s more like the sound a doe makes when the arrowhead replaces the...

Pride by Diana Goetsch from In America (2017 Rattle Chapbook Prize Selection) https://www.rattle.com/pride-by-diana-goetsch/ for Paula...

Untitled by Marilyn Hacker page 121 of her book, Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons W.W. Norton and Company, 1986 You did say,...

As Planned by Frank O'Hara published in The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara edited by Donald Allen After the first glass of vodka you can...

Rejected Embroidery Projects by Triny Finlay published in The/tEmz/Review, Issue 22 I stitch whimsy-careful scenes for people who don’t...

Little Shields, in Starlight by Carl Phillips posted in Literary Hub, 2022 Maybe there’s no need for us to go anywhere more far than...

Margaret’s Moon by Jackie Kay After she died, I swear the sky Had the most beautiful of all sunsets, A blush of pink, then red, a glass...

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; O my luve's like the melodie That's...

from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 52 The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a...

One Reason I Like Opera by Marge Piercy from her book Colors Passing Through Us: Poems, 2004 (and here) In movies, you can tell the...

Everything We Don’t Want Them to Know by Maria Mazziotti Gillan published in her 2010 book, What We Pass On At eleven, my granddaughter...

What She Was Wearing by Denver Butson published in his 2004 book, illegible address (Luquer Street Press) this is my suicide dress she...

My First Weeks by Sharon Olds Sometimes, when I wonder what I’m like, underneath, I think of my first two weeks, I was drenched with...

A Readymade by Lucia Perillo Out of nowhere the phone rings, and the voice of a fat man answers: Hell-low bay-bee . . . each syllable its...

The stars around the beautiful moon by Sappho The stars around the beautiful moon Hiding their glittering forms Whenever she shines full...

Seedlings by Margaret Rozga pubished in Whale Road Review, Issue 26, 2022 First, water the seedlings. Yes, even before coffee, before...

End of April by Phillis Levin published in Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins (and posted here) Under a cherry tree I found a robin’s...