Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.
Tag: Poem
Judy Mathews – After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio
"After Weeks Without Rain in Northwest Ohio" by poet Judy Mathews is an offering or a prayer to the natural blessings of a place.
Erika Seshadri – Eviction Notice
As gently as the narrator of the poem relocates a spider, Erika Seshadri carefully places her quiet poem "Eviction Notice" at our feet.
Nancy Hamilton – The Door Opened
Nancy Hamilton's enlightening poem "The Door Opened" revels in the glory of openness and emptiness, and overcoming illusions.
Steve Fay – turnings: a suite of poems
Steve Fay's "turnings: a suite of poems" is something special, a sequence of earthy fragments tumbling down the page like detritus.
Denise Levertov – The Secret
The unintentional authoring of a line that reveals something profound to a reader, remains a mystery to the author herself.
Adam Jon Miller – anthology
Adam Jon Miller offers readers a peek at a part of series of poems inspired by the ancient Chinese poets with his "anthology".
Liam Wholihan – Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup
Poet Liam Wholihan offers a lament for several different things in his complex "Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup".
Dimitri Papadopoulos – burgundy and oak
Dimitri Papadopoulos returns us to innocence, nostalgia, and inspiration with his touching poem "burgundy and oak".
Kai-Lilly Karpman – On Want
Poet Kai-Lilly Karpman unleashes another salvo against a violent patriarchy in her revelatory and melancholy "On Want".