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The Burning of Fry Street

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SCOTT RAY

“We smelled the smoke before we saw the fire”

August 2, 2020 Archived Poems, Scott Ray

To The Person Who Will Be The Last To Speak My Name

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DAVID ROSENTHAL

“You’ll come across it in some database– / an arcane list, an ancient family tree– / a ghost town on the edge of cyberspace”

March 8, 2020 Archived Poems, David Rosenthal

Seven Broken Dreams

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ADAM TAVEL

“One horseshoe clangs against an iron spike. / You breathe them in: their glimmered bayonets.”

November 10, 2019 Adam Tavel, Archived Poems

Love Story

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PEDRO POITEVIN

“It springs from mystery like window dew. / It glows in the abrasion of a match.”

September 15, 2019 Archived Poems, Pedro Poitevin

Dying Firethorn

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CAROL FRITH

“My neighbor’s motion lights ignite, / light up the privet tree, the dying firethorn hedge”

June 9, 2019 Archived Poems, Carol Frith, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

Last Wish

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ROB WRIGHT

“I wish that all the hours I’ve spent with bores / in heated arguments were mine again.”

June 2, 2019 Archived Poems, Rob Wright

Lunar Eclipse

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RICHARD WAKEFIELD

“An old man at his kitchen window sees / by winter light”

May 19, 2019 Archived Poems, Kyle Potvin

Two Philosophical Sonnets

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TONY BARNSTONE

“Descartes installed the eyeball of an ox / in a small hole through which the daylight sprayed / inverted figures of the world’s parade”

March 24, 2019 Archived Poems, Tony Barnestone

Safeway

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JEHANNE DUBROW

“I walk to Safeway where the air stays on / and wander through the frozen foods, the cold / glass coffins”

March 18, 2019 Archived Poems, Jehanne Dubrow

A Juilliard Pianist

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PHILIP DACEY

“She sits as if before the stillest lake”

January 27, 2019 Archived Poems, Philip Dacey, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

Galatea Alone

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GWEN HART

“I have grown accustomed to his hands”

October 7, 2018 Archived Poems, Gwen Hart

Dead Matter

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CAKI WILKINSON

“When neon ginkgoes fan the window panes / and sycamores unroll their yellow sleeves”

September 30, 2018 Archived Poems, Caki Wilkinson

Slow

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BRUCE MCBIRNEY

“It happens quickly every Friday night. / The deepest feelings, the profound events / Of thirty years are gathered up in light / Upon a movie screen. “

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Bruce McBirney

Sonnet for the Pennsylvania Mountain Lion

SHANE SEELY

“Ray claims he saw you with his own two eyes”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Shane Seely

Geneology

ROBERT DONOHUE

“In lonely moments it may come to mind / To brush away the cobweb’s veil”

August 11, 2018 Archived Poems, Robert Donohue

To My Daughter

GINNY KACZMAREK

“The piercing ice of winter never ends / when you’re away.”

August 11, 2018 Archived Poems, Ginny Kaczmarek

The Empty Chair

ROBERT W. CRAWFORD
Winner of the 2006 Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

“The tourists take a snapshot of the sight — / But only if nobody’s sitting there.”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, Robert W. Crawford, The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award

Cookie Monster Blue

WILLIAM BREEN
“Me sad. Me who love cookie cannot taste / with tongue of felt to cardboard pasted flat.”

July 31, 2018 Archived Poems, William Breen

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