A Dirge Melody: Don’t Let the Humans Know We Contain Souls by Elizabeth Upshur published in Mistake House (2017) If you want the pearl...

Philosophy is a school subject that is relevant in our everyday lives, whether or not we realize it. (They all are, of course, but some...

Shirt by Robert Pinsky (published in his book, The Want Bone) The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams, The nearly invisible...

My Children Asleep on the Chest of September by Ariana D. Den Bleyker (published in The Mantle, Issue 6, November 2018) It’s an alluring...

"I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am."...

Dearborn North Apartments Chicago, Illinois by Lola Haskins Rows of rectangles rise, set into brick. And in every rectangle, there is a...

In Praise of Gray by Jay Rubin (published in The Summerset Review, Summer 2011) Gray hair is a crown of splendor —Proverbs 16:31 O how I...

Mad Libs gave me and my brother a lot of silly fun as we sat in the backseat of the blue Plymouth Fury with my parents up front. More...

Forgive My Dearth of Quietude by Praise Osawaru (published in Feral, Issue 3, August 2020) Instead of dreaming, I translate my whirling...

Purgatory by Carolyn Martin (published in The Opiate, August 2016) can’t be much worse than this: sitting in the second row while the...

Anniversary Alert: Phillis Wheatley's book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published on September 1, 1773....

On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley O thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher than a...

Our Idea of Nothing at All by Alice Duer Miller “I am opposed to woman suffrage, but I am not opposed to woman.”—from an...

Using the Ed Ochester poem posted today on my blog as inspiration, write a poem (or write some prose, or paint, or sculpt, or draw, or...

The Gift by Ed Ochester (from A Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, Bantam Poetry, 1979) One day as I was lying on the lawn...

Crossroads by Joyce Sutphen (published in her book, Straight Out of View, 1996 by Holy Cow! Press) The second half of my life will be...

Today's posted poem is "Diary of a Carpenter Wasp" by Gary L. McDowell. His chapbook also includes poems about mosquitos and birds, and...

Diary of a Carpenter Wasp by Gary L. McDowell (from his chapbook, They Speak of Fruit, published in 2009 by Cooper Dillon) I sing the...

The Revenant by Billy Collins (hear the poet read this and another of his dog persona poems here) I am the dog you put to sleep, as you...

Yes, it has been done before, and not only by Jane Yolen! Lots of writers and visual artists have depicted what really happens after...