Friendship by Lucien Stryk (published in Selected Poems , 1976, The Swallow Press) He writes again. Since his divorce a fist has never...

Elegy for Myself by Stanley Moss (published in Poetry, OCT/NOV 1987) The ashes and dust are laughing, swaddled, perfumed and powdered,...

Little Star: Week 8 by Cameron Morse (published in Whale Road Review, Issue 9, Winter 2017) Embryo son, fetus daughter, wherever you are...

In today's beautiful poem posted on this blog, "Little Star: Week 8," the speaker--a father-to-be--addresses his child-to-be. In his very...

A Parking Lot in West Houston by Monica Youn (from her 2003 book, Barter, from Gray Wolf Press) Angels are unthinkable in hot weather...

I am a little obsessed with bridges. On drives across country, I will go out of my way in order to cross an old covered bridge miles from...

Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money by Joyce Carol Oates (published in her 1978 book of the same name, Louisiana State...

Chicago by Carl Sandburg HOG Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;...

To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy You strop my anger, especially when I find you in restaurant or bar and pay for the same liquid, coming...

On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood The glory of its native wood, By storms...

Love Song for Love Songs by Rafael Campo (published on the Academy of American Poets website) A golden age of love songs and we still...

This week's prompt has 3 components. I have never seen this Clint Eastwood movie (see the title of this prompt), but the title has such a...

Desirous of Her Liberty at This Time by Rhonda M. Ward (published in Poetry, November 2021, in The Witness Stones Project portfolio)...

Hope by Elsa Gidlow (from her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread) You would win me, woo me, win me, To be your lover, Hope! You would lure me,...

Today's poem on my blog, "Hope," was written by Elsa Gidlow and appears in her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread. Here is what the Academy of...

if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then by Raquel Salas Rivera (published in their 2021 book, x/ex/exis:...

Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko (published in Split Lip Magazine, August 2018) The first time you died, your friends searched the...

Today, after visiting two wineries, reading about some returning TV shows, listening to music, re-reading today's blog poem, and my...

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (first published on June 3, 1888 in The San Francisco Examiner ) The outlook wasn't...

Thanks to the New York Times, I just went down a rabbit hole of summer themes. (See the article that started this here--it's gifted, so...