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The Ancestors

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HANNAH FAITH NOTESS

“Moved up the river to a ghostless house. / Hung out the Monday washing in the breeze.”

October 28, 2018 Archived Poems, Hannah Faith Notess

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

Herons

SANDRA SHAFFER VANDOREN

“Motionless as herons, snipers stare, / their long, slick beaks of guns all pointing down”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Sandra Shaffer VanDoren

Soundings

MATTHEW MCLAUGHLIN MALYON

“The open coffin waited in the room, / a stone in ocean tide”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Matthew McLaughlin Malyon

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

Swans in Winter

DANA SONNENSCHEIN

“The hillside held in shadows’ branching net / and the reservoir in wave-splashed ice resound / when swans rise, kicking, scattering light”

September 8, 2018 Archived Poems, Dana Sonnenschein

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

Why I Can’t Swim

ALLISON JOSEPH

“If waves could wash away my sins in life— / all errors, indiscretions, and the blight / of caustic words”

August 11, 2018 Allison Joseph, Archived Poems

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

To a Saxon Poet

JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

“Snow fallen on Northumberland has known / And forgotten every footprint that you made”

July 29, 2018 Archived Poems, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Barnes, Robert Mezey

Sleep

JORGE LUIS BORGES
Translation by Robert Mezey and Richard Barnes

“If sleep is truce, as it is sometimes said”

July 29, 2018 Archived Poems, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Barnes, Robert Mezey

Discourse on the Crippled God

TONY BARNESTONE

“A man swings through the open doors on crutches, / his long arms thick with muscle like the Christ”

June 30, 2018 Archived Poems, Tony Barnestone

Departure

X. J. KENNEDY 

“With thoughtful steps she made sure that no friend / Would catch the drift of what she planned to do”

June 30, 2018 Archived Poems, X.J. Kennedy

As You Like It

ANNA EVANS

“I cast you as the main romantic lead / in what I always knew was just a play”

May 20, 2018 Anna Evans, Archived Poems

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