Poem of the Week

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Elegies for the Living and the Dead” by Heidi Seaborn! Heidi Seaborn is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and author of the…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “My Father Cuts My Hair” by Colin Bailes! Colin Bailes is an MFA candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he serves as the…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Quid Pro Nil” by Stella Wong! Stella Wong is a poet with degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Wong’s poems have…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “When I Don’t Feel Like Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain, I Say His” by Hannah Dow! Hannah Dow is the author of…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is Alex Chertok’s “To the man cutting the cemetery grass.” Alex Chertok has poems published in The Kenyon Review Online, The Cincinnati Review, Third…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is Emilia Phillips’s “I Have Anxiety About Anxiety.” Emilia Phillips (she/her/hers) is the author of four poetry collections from the University of Akron Press,…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “No Punchlines for the Endangered” by Matthew Gavin Frank! Matthew Gavin Frank is the author of the nonfiction books, The Mad Feast: An…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “A Soldier of The 100th: The Lost Battalion The Vosges” by David Mura! David Mura has written four poetry collections: The Last Incantations,…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Philosophers Tell Us About Forms” by Christine Gosnay! Christine Gosnay’s first book, Even Years (Kent State University Press, 2017), won the Stan and…    read more

This week’s Poem of the Week is “Keeping Home” by Benjamin Garcia! Benjamin Garcia’s first collection, THROWN IN THE THROAT (Milkweed Editions, August 2020), was selected by Kazim Ali for…    read more