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,

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04 May Two poems by Peter Siedlecki

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Arrested,
Apprehended,
Disappeared,
Severed from those he loves.

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27 Apr Wounded by George Howell

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I take things too seriously,
take things to heart,
a cliché, yes

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20 Apr Origin Story by Steven Duong

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In the Year of the Hare I saw in your face
an invasive species of love which said
If this is how you live your life

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13 Apr A sonnet by David Hadbawnik

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The ice on the lake is melting in broad
pockmarked sections aesthetically it’s
pleasing to imagine stepping out on

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06 Apr Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones by Hoa Nguyen

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

When I feel moved and then say I am touched,
it’s another presence inside me I sense,
the dip of an oar, a canoe being launched.

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30 Mar TOUCHED by Molly Peacock

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

When I feel moved and then say I am touched,
it’s another presence inside me I sense,
the dip of an oar, a canoe being launched.

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23 Mar DEPARTURE by Elaine Chamberlain (1939-2025)

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

jYou wanted to leave at dawn
but I turned off the clock

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16 Mar ATTACHMENT by Paula Wachowiak

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You have grown into me like fibers in my bone.

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09 Mar Excerpts from PORCHES by Andrew Rippeon

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jelly-throated with no ship as
supports by warble-clot; those silent
birds upon lines their eyes upon
the loves of my life—at

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