by Hannah Goff | Jul 23, 2026 | Poetry, Poetry 2026
If You Give a Poet an Invitation to the Cosmos Club She’ll bring a tote to collect weeds & wildflowers. Situated on Embassy Row, liesa club of brains & business cards. Everyone is an expert in everything, especially gettingto their table early & moving...
by Hannah Goff | Jul 23, 2026 | Poetry, Poetry 2026
Switch Stance All truths wait in all things—Walt Whitman I envy surfers (coteries of loose joints) who design their lives around patterns and leave no trace.Rising with the sun (an income of energy), rushing to the edge of a flower-studded cliffwhere no words are...
by Katie Mihalek | Jul 23, 2026 | Poetry, Poetry 2026
Omniscient The river hides its openingsin the marsh.In this, it forcesme to see. I paddle up the channel.The wind blows off my hood.The tree ahead is leafless. The bird sees me before I knew I had been seen. I am stuck between the shelf of grass and mud and dirt and...
by Braiden Ellis | Jul 23, 2026 | Poetry, Poetry 2026
Call Me Amalekite “Isle of the Dead” (1880), Arnold Böcklin. Sourced from Wikimedia, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Is it enough tocall me Amalekite?A treacherous soul harbored inimperfect man. Is evilso simple that it can beembodied by a...
by Aishat Babatunde | Jul 23, 2026 | Poetry, Poetry 2026
Eighteen Months of Almost Eighteen months we passed a handful of seedsback and forth over the same field. You plant it. No, you. Neither of us knelt. The ground stayed open,soft, ready to take whatever we gave it: These feelings. Lord, these feelings! Down there it...
by Anne Rong | Jul 23, 2026 | Poetry, Poetry 2026
Authorities are trying to figure out who stole a 150-pound watermelon worth $1,500 Authorities are trying to figure out who stole a 150-pound watermelon worth $1,500WBALTV-11 | 11:31 a.m. EDT September 10, 2013 The sky is dark when he steps out ontothe back porch into...
