The oil painting shown below is entitled Dreams. It was painted by Vittorio Matteo Corcos in 1896. The woman was the daughter of a friend...

Prairie Work by Susan Niz published in Ponder Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2018 I walk fatly through field Like a freckled,...

We Lived Happily During the War by Ilya Kaminsky from the book, Deaf Republic, published by Graywolf Press, 2019 And when they bombed...

This also works for nonfiction and fiction! In their ground-breaking book, On Grief and Grieving, Elisabeth Kübler Ross and David Kessler...

soil by Irène P. Mathieu from the book orogeny, 2016 Bob Kaufman Prize, Trembling Pillow Press the way you say soil sounds like soul, as...

Winter Trees by William Carlos Williams All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon...

Think back to an incident where you felt real fear--not anxiety or stress or despair, but fear, that mental, emotional, and physical pit...

Coyote Night Adrian C. Louis A flat tire ten miles east of Pine Ridge just past the Wounded Knee turnoff. I disembark into Siberia...

Love Song: I and Thou by Alan Dugan Nothing is plumb, level, or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece...

Tala (ode to the Girl-Palm) by Majda Gama published in Nimrod, Spring/Summer 2019, Volume 62, Number 2 Voices of the Middle East and...

Warning: this prompt has a long-ish introduction. Many years ago, I wrote my first ode. Prior to doing so, I went to Neruda and Keats for...

for Kay Foran published in As If By Magic: Selected Poems (WFUP, 2021) was in 1963 when Miss Shannon rapping the duster on the easel’s...

Using Shirley Geok-lin Lim's poem, "Bless this Bagel," as inspiration, write a short poem that is a blessing. A food item is a great...

Bless this Bagel by Shirley Geok-lin Lim published in Walking Backwards (West End Press) Bless this bagel this Sunday morning, Stark...

published in Exploded Assembly (Sow's Ear 2019 Chapbook Competition winning chapbook) I don't want to talk about what we have lost, I am...

Today's poem, "In the ER at 1 AM" by Mary Hanarhan, relates a tragic event in first person. It is a heart-breaking poem, and although we...

In the ER at 1 AM by Mary Hanarhan published in Sugar House Review, Issue 18 You die next to the man holding a dish towel over his bloody...

Hunter's Moon Kelli Russell Agodon published in Waxwing Literary Journal The first person you fall in love with will be a deer. You will...

From 1953 to 1972, Walter Cronkite hosted a historical reenactment show which treated events such as the Boston Tea Party, The Burning of...

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways by Louise Erdrich Home’s the place we head for in our sleep. Boxcars stumbling north in dreams don’t...