Poetry #19 Spring 2020
V. Joshua Adams
Moonset
E. Kristin Anderson
I Can’t Take Another Handshake
Camille Blanc
Scepter
Lauren Camp
I am being invited into the vicinity
Jessica Cuello
Dear Mother, [Until I have a father…]
Dear Creature, [I alternate between book and milk…]
Dear Mother, [In the grass, the red-self, cardinal…]
Dear _______________, [I heard from G. when my half-sister died…]
Dear Mother, [You knew what couldn’t fit inside…]
Kyle Churney
Late Epithalamium
Rachel DeWoskin
sestina for the snake in a man-made lake
Laura Donnelly
The Jack Loom
After Blake
Garden Vernacular
Amy Strauss Friedman
A Murder Scene Past Police Tape
Blindingly Unhappy
Adam J. Gellings
The First Things
Diane Glancy
[Iris in the window box that holds the world]
Too Long Before Soon
Kimberly Glanzman
Cryptophasia
The Old Gods & the New Trees
Jan-Henry Gray
Meat
Russell Karrick
Delirium
Epiphany
Jill Khoury
trance while grieving
Mihee Kim
착해
Maya Marshall
Portrait in the Lone Star
Connor Poff
From Signage at AK Steel's Middletown Works
Sharon Pretti
A Girl on the Eve of Her 18th Year
Remi Recchia
When we don’t invite your older brother to the wedding & your mother wants to know why,
Karen Rigby
Chrysanthemums
Why My Poem Refuse Daylight
Patty Seyburn
Bo Peep Synecdoche
May It Please the Court
Shirley at 94
Katrina Smolinsky
Maybe I Am Just Writing a Poem About Beauty--
Liam Strong
a gift from aunt Jan