Dean Young's poem, also posted here on my blog, is an incredible poem about love/sex/romance/desire/yearning . . . in other words,...

Delphiniums in a Window Box by Dean Young (1955-2022) Every sunrise, sometimes strangers’ eyes. Not necessarily swans, even crows, even...

published in Cordella Magazine, Issue 7 What I Wanted by Margaret Chula All my life, I wanted to ride bareback on a tiger through the...

Good morning! Although only 14% of Americans live in rural areas, most of us are not far from horses. Horse-drawn carriages, police...

Love Letter to a Dead Body by Jake Skeets published in Boston Review, 2018 we lay each other down in the burr and sage bottles jangle us...

Forget-Me-Nots by Megan Merchant published in Breakwater, Issue 23 Today, my mother forgot the word for bathroom while she was in one....

Check out today's poem from Jellyfish Magazine: "Marry Me" by Lindsey Webb. Now write a poem in which the speaker tells someone why they...

Marry Me by Lindsey Webb; published in Jellyfish Magazine, 2015 I am like a flower that won't stop opening and closing. I scare all the...

The Sciences Sing a Lullabye by Albert Goldbarth published in his book, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007 Physics...

California Gestalt by Jessica Yuan published in New Delta Review, Issue 11.2 How small the rains that feed that city, that settle its...

Irregular verbs are the bane of foreign language students, no matter what language you are trying to learn. I have had students from all...

Freeway 280 by Lorna Dee Cervantes Las casitas near the gray cannery, nestled amid wild abrazos of climbing roses and man-high red...

Today's blog poem by Amy Lowell, "A Little Song," uses end rhyme. When Lowell was writing, end rhyme was the norm. However, this was...

A Little Song by Amy Lowell When you, my Dear, are away, away, How wearily goes the creeping day. A year drags after morning, and night...

Tiny Ghost Bundle by Bridget Clawson published in Hobo Camp Review, Winter Issue # 33 -- Featuring a poetry tribute to Tom Petty Do you...

I recently heard someone in a hair salon say, "Asparagus? Now, I feel that is the weirdest vegetable." I had been getting my hair washed,...

In Praise of Okra by January Gill O'Neil published in her 2009 book, Underlife (CavanKerry Press) No one believes in you like I do. I sit...

Lower East Side Brucha by Rachel Trousdale published in you are here, 2013 Blessed art thou, Lord our God, king of the universe, who...

The Reemergence Of The Noose by Patricia Smith published in Asheville Poetry Review, Volume 15, Issue 1 Some lamp sputters its dusty...

Patricia Smith mentions Randy Travis in her poem, The Reemergence of the Noose, so we will keep it going this week. Your writing...