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Imagining My Neighbor by Loretta Diane Walker published on Poem-a-Day, April 08, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets Now that night...

Sonnet to the Fifty-One Senators Who Voted Against the Women’s Health Protection Act by Joanne Durham published in Plum Tree Tavern,...

Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali from his book Call Me Ishmael Tonight (Norton, 2003) What will suffice for a true-love knot? Even the...

What I learned by R. Erica Doyle published in The Rumpus, April 22, 2022 Why was there even An axe in the house there were thorns to...

Silver Falls by Melody Wilson published in Cleaver Magazine, 2021 We have driven east this bright afternoon, the two of us, young parents...

So Chinese Girl by Dorothy Chan published in The Cincinnati Review, 2018 Anyone who makes tasty food has to be a good person, because...

What I Mean When I Say Truck Driver by Geffrey Davis published in Revising the Storm (2014, BOA Editions) During the last 50 miles back...

February by Bill Christophersen published in Poetry, February 2002 The cold grows colder, even as the days grow longer, February's...

Ode to the Midwest by Kevin Young published in Poetry, July/August 2007 The country I come from Is called the Midwest —Bob Dylan I...

History Lesson by Natasha Tretheway published in Domestic Work (2000, Graywolf Press) I am four in this photograph, standing on a wide...

How It Happened by Chelsea Rathburn published in New Ohio Review, 2011, republished at Verse Daily I blame that little village in Spain,...

If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border, in Which Country Would They Bury the Survivors? by Jeff Mock —for Margot...

About Face by Alice Fulton published in her book, Sensual Math (1995) Because life's too short to blush, I keep my blood tucked in. I...

Morning Prayer with Rat King by Kaveh Akbar published in Poetry, March 2018 gravity accounts for the distance between weight and mass it...

Daughter I am saying things to you by Amy Schmitz published in Kestrel, Fall 2016 like sand seed storage like always have something to...

Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild by Kathy Fish published in Jellyfish Review, 2017 A group of grandmothers is a tapestry. A group...

There Is a Street Named for Martin Luther King, Jr. In Every City by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib For Joe Bart especially the ones where blood...

Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms by Hayan Charara published...

A Spine Moving by Karen Braucher for Dr. Jocelyn Kirnak published in Caveat Lector In this poem there will not be a looming, joking...

At the South End of Lake Whatcom by Richard Widerkehr published in Sweet Tree Review, Winter 2017 At night the lake looks closer, and...