Poetry

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (21+ words) ©2018 G. Kim Blank Comments and suggestions & Cite this page. Edition 3.28 24th September 2026. SVN revision 2038. × Cite this page:...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (249+ words) Published: Oct 12, 2026 16:21 IST Despite Carson’s play with multiple elements, there is no way to ignore the poemness of “Stacks”: “A bird flashed by as if mistaken then it starts. We do not think speed of life. We do not think…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (379+ words) Daytona Teddy Riggs (Hub City Press, 2026). GTPat Dupree sells "breakthroughs." These are moments, in Teddy's words, "when everything becomes clear." If Teddy were to see everything clearly—if he were to confront unromantic truth—would he have a breakthrough, or…...

1+ hour ago   (641+ words) Lauren Gerber, Illinois Poet Laureate Mark Turcotte and Kirk Schlueter read during Edwardsville’s “A Weekend of Songs & Stories,” part of the Great Rivers & Routes Last 100 Miles Festival. Illinois Poet Laureate Mark Turcotte reads during the Edwardsville program, connecting his work…...

1+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1030+ words) Rene Livingston-DeTienne sent the final edits of her third poetry collection to her publisher just days before she died in January 2025. She was 53. The book was finished. It just hadn’t reached readers yet. That changes this weekend. Rene’s spouse, Dannee…...

1+ hour, 24+ min ago   (1333+ words) For the past few weeks, I’ve been completely consumed by a single, all-encompassing task. It all started on an ordinary day in July. I was casually scrolling through Instagram when an advertisement popped up -one of those easily skippable promotions…...

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (50+ words) A bright gem lies deep- Deep in the sea’s great dark night Trapped in the dark night A single spark burning hot Fire, white and black Yearning to let go A bud, red and ripe Ready to be open, wide…...

1+ hour, 42+ min ago   (699+ words) The newest Nobel Prize in Literature winner is not a profound literary voice. For a moment, I thought we’d finally identified a rare anomaly in the literary world: an educated writer who cares more about preserving the literary tradition rather…...

2+ hour ago   (198+ words) I said I would fix the drip in the bathroom sink,and for three weeks it counted the nights out loud.Plink.Plink.You never said a word about this.That was worse. The sink is quiet now. I want…...

12+ hour, 23+ min ago   (437+ words) Bruce Cohen, a poetry professor at the University of Connecticut, gave a reading of poems from “Botrytis,” his sixth book of poetry, on Thursday. Over 60 attendees gathered in the Black Box Theater at 6 p.m. to hear the reading, which…...