Poem of the Week
Poem of the Week
Jan 11 2016
Charlie Bondhus: "The Red Barberry"
This week we offer a new poem by Charlie Bondhus. Bondhus’s second poetry book, All the Heat We Could Carry, won the 2013 Main Street Rag Award and the 2014… read more
Poem of the Week
Jan 04 2016
Alice Friman: "Late Night Conversation"
This week we feature a new poem by Alice Friman. Friman’s sixth full-length collection of poetry is The View from Saturn, LSU. Her previous book, Vinculum, LSU, won the 2012… read more
Poem of the Week
Dec 28 2015
Benjamin Landry: “It has acquired a ‘ghostly objectivity’ and leads a life of its own.”
This New Year week, we gladly offer a new poem by Benjamin Landry. Landry is the author of Particle and Wave (Chicago, 2014) and An Ocean Away (iUniverse, 2006), as… read more
Poem of the Week
Dec 21 2015
Chard deNiord: "Layover"
This week we’re delighted to offer a new poem by Chard deNiord. Chard deNiord is the new Poet Laureate of Vermont. The author of five books of poetry, including Interstate… read more
Poem of the Week
Dec 14 2015
Mary Jo Thompson: "The Other Self"
This week we offer a new poem by Mary Jo Thompson. Thompson’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the anthologies Best American Poetry and Another and Another: An Anthology… read more
Poem of the Week
Dec 07 2015
Martin Rock: "After Tanikawa"
This week we feature a new poem by Martin Rock. Rock is the author of Residuum (selected for the 2015 CSU Poetry Center’s First Book Prize) and the chapbook Dear… read more
Poem of the Week
Nov 30 2015
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett: "Indian Lake"
This week we offer a new poem by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett. Flynn-Goodlett migrated to the Bay Area after completion of her MFA at The New School. She was awarded the Andrea… read more
Poem of the Week
Nov 23 2015
Michelle Boisseau: "Billow"
This week we’re delighted to offer a new poem by Michelle Boisseau. Boisseau won the 2015 Tampa Review Prize, and her fifth book of poems, Among the Gorgons, will be… read more
Poem of the Week
Nov 16 2015
Ed Bok Lee: "Blackberry Stains Still Alive In the Future"
This week we’re delighted to feature a new poem by Ed Bok Lee. Lee is the author of Whorled (Coffee House Press), winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and… read more
Poem of the Week
Nov 09 2015
Gary L. McDowell: "Massive and Tiny as a Star"
This week we offer a new poem by Gary L. McDowell. McDowell is the author of five collections of poetry, including Mysteries in a World that Thinks There Are None… read more