Poem of the Week Archives - Just Buffalo Literary Center

13 Jul Quiet as Thunderbolts by Kenzie Allen

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

And I kept it from you like a kill,
my name, my legacy, my shoulder
chip and the small hollow beneath

Read "Quiet as Thunderbolts" by Kenzie Allen

06 Jul Drop the Mic by Kim Chinquee

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

I breakdance in my kitchen, cooking lentils, thinking of my
piano days, my fingers on the keyboard.

Read "Drop the Mic" by Kim Chinquee

29 Jun Cottonwoods by David Lampe (1941-2025)

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

On the Iowa plains, cottonwoods
sacred to the Lakota,
take root near deep ditches

Read "Cottonwoods" by David Lampe

22 Jun TEACHING MILTON AT EIGHT A.M. by Graham Foust

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

You’ve been not quite asked to be here,
and you’ve come all this way just to talk,
not just about the weather as it churns,
its gravid cumuli, but of progress, too,

Read "Teaching Milton at Eight A.M." by Graham Foust

15 Jun Sonnet beginning with a line from George Economou’s Piers Plowman by Amy De’Ath

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

For this good god grant me forgiveness for
my worthless living during during my entire lifetime
I couldn't be less inventive if I tried
What is the trajectory if the virus now?

Read "Sonnet beginning with a line from George Economou's Piers Plowman" by Amy De’Ath.

08 Jun Why Is This Room The Size of Mountains and So Empty by Robin Lee Jordan

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

I need you to be
flames now please

Read "Why Is This Room The Size of Mountains and So Empty" by Robin Lee Jordan.

01 Jun since blood is dark by Diego Espíritu Chávez

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

the body aches and words say
exactly what I don’t want
: not everything in language is ours or belongs to us

Read "since blood is dark" by Diego Espíritu Chávez.

25 May Excerpts from Stock Pond by Justin Cox

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

dirt helmet a
historical helmet an
artifact metal met with
smooth dirt

Read excerpts from "Stock Pond" by Justin Cox.

18 May My Name by Irene Sipos

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

My name means peace,
after Irene, the Greek goddess.

Read "My Name" by Irene Sipos.

11 May Taking Dictation by Brandel France de Bravo

Posted at 09:00h in Poem of the Week, Publications

I’m Berlusconi minus the pomade, Putin’s twenty bottles
of vodka and birthday mash note. You’re one of my five
real friends. Just as a poet always writes for other poets,

Read "Taking Dictation" by Brandel France de Bravo.

13 Jul Quiet as Thunderbolts by Kenzie Allen

06 Jul Drop the Mic by Kim Chinquee

29 Jun Cottonwoods by David Lampe (1941-2025)

22 Jun TEACHING MILTON AT EIGHT A.M. by Graham Foust

15 Jun Sonnet beginning with a line from George Economou’s Piers Plowman by Amy De’Ath

08 Jun Why Is This Room The Size of Mountains and So Empty by Robin Lee Jordan

01 Jun since blood is dark by Diego Espíritu Chávez

25 May Excerpts from Stock Pond by Justin Cox

18 May My Name by Irene Sipos

11 May Taking Dictation by Brandel France de Bravo

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13 Jul Quiet as Thunderbolts by Kenzie Allen

06 Jul Drop the Mic by Kim Chinquee

29 Jun Cottonwoods by David Lampe (1941-2025)

22 Jun TEACHING MILTON AT EIGHT A.M. by Graham Foust

15 Jun Sonnet beginning with a line from George Economou’s Piers Plowman by Amy De’Ath

08 Jun Why Is This Room The Size of Mountains and So Empty by Robin Lee Jordan

01 Jun since blood is dark by Diego Espíritu Chávez

25 May Excerpts from Stock Pond by Justin Cox

18 May My Name by Irene Sipos

11 May Taking Dictation​ by Brandel France de Bravo

11 May Taking Dictation by Brandel France de Bravo