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,...

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...

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

Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal (and printed here, as well as in his book Days We Would Rather Know) [I] retrace by moonlight the...

Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón (and can be found here as well as on my refrigerator) More than the fuchsia funnels breaking...

Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta (published in A Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, 1979) daily courage doesn't count we...

Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought...

from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily...

Death Is Nothing At All by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room....

Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson by David Shapiro (published in Jacket Magazine, August, 2003) Henry Hudson turned to me and said: Be...

What Do I Care for Morning by Helene Johnson What do I care for morning, For a shivering aspen tree, For sun flowers and sumac Opening...

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry (published in The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry, Penguin, 2018) When despair for the...

After I Came Back from Iceland by Sheenagh Pugh published in Poetry For the Earth, edited by Sara Dunn with Alan Scholefield, Fawcett...

In Perpetual Spring by Amy Gerstler (published in her book, Bitter Angel, North Point Press, 1990) Gardens are also good places to sulk....

After Looking into a Book Belonging to My Great-Grandfather, Eli Eliakim Plutzik by Hyam Plutzik (published in his book, Apples from...

On the Recovery of Canis Familiaris from Sputnik 2, 1957 by Bailey Blumenstock (published in The Maine Review, Issue 6.1, 2020) Before...

I tell my children by Victoria Chang published in her 2020 book, Obit (Copper Canyon Press) I tell my children that hope is like a blue...

Her Perfect Dad by Kathleen Aguero (published in her 2013 book, after that, Tiger Bark Press) I'm Carson Drew. I disappear, don't...