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...

The comet known as C/2022 E3 (Z.T.F.) will be visible to us here on earth for the next few weeks. It will be closest to our planet on...

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...

The contributions made to America by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King are many and they are monumental. The writings and...

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

January, like a few of our other months, takes its name from a Roman god, in this case, Janus. He is depicted as having two faces in the...

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

Happy New Year! Are you ready to write a new poem/story/essay/journal entry each week this year? And if you want/need to write more,...

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

Capitalism by Elaine Fowler Palencia published in Rattle, August 18, 2021 Along the two-lane blacktops of my childhood we stopped to buy...

This week's prompt acknowledges that we all have different reactions to winter and its holidays. Write about winter. You can even use...

Christmas, 1970 by Sandra M. Castillo published in her book, My Father Sings, to My Embarrassment, White Pine Press We assemble the...

Chanukah Lights Tonight by Steven Schneider published in his 2000 book, Prairie Air Show, Talking River Publications Our annual prairie...

Read today's blog poem, "Cherries in Winter," by Claudette Mork Sigg. Then, if you do not know this poem by heart, go read/re-read Robert...

Cherries in Winter by Claudette Mork Sigg When the fruit came in, my mother went on binges. She spent the night canning, naked, in the...

Evening Meal by Tiffany Midge Mushrooms are seekers. They sweat in a pan of garlic and butter, fuss, bicker and toss— toughing it out...

An Old Man Performs Alchemy on His Doorstep at Christmastime by Anna George Meek published in her book, Acts of Contortion (2002) Cream...

This week's prompt asks that you consider postage stamps. Write a poem that focuses on stamps in some way, or at least mentions a...