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20 Apr Origin Story by Steven Duong

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

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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14 Apr Announcing the 2025 JBLC Poetry Fellow

Posted at 09:00h in JBWC Fellowships, Poetry Fellowships

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Poetry Fellowship: Nabila Lovelace of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Their first book Sons of Achilles is available from YesYes Books. Lovelace will visit Buffalo this August for a writing residency and read at the August 30 Silo City Reading Series event.

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13 Apr A sonnet by David Hadbawnik

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

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.

Read "Why This Haunted Middle and Door Hung with Haunted Girl Bones" by Hoa Nguyen.

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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

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

You have grown into me like fibers in my bone.

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09 Mar Excerpts from PORCHES by Andrew Rippeon

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

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

Read "River" by Andrew Rippeon.

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02 Mar TO CLOTHE WITH LOVE by Joseph Chamberlain

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

How can I maintain
my Granddad’s soul
in the land he loved -

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23 Feb T.R.A.U.M.A.—The Truth We Keep Passing Down by Dallas Taylor

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

You know the stereotype.
But show me one person who don’t like fried chicken,
And I’ll show you someone who just ain’t made it right.

Read "T.R.A.U.M.A.—The Truth We Keep Passing Down" by Dallas Taylor

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