Tag Archives: Romantic poetry

SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: SPRING!

Posted on May 4, 2013 by

New York’s Jefferson Market Garden in full spring bloom; the editor enjoying the same. Flower photos by Sivan Butler-Rotholz. Editor photo by Frank Ortega. Poems & Excerpts For Spring: For winter’s rains and ruins are over, And all the season … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HEARTWRECKS

Posted on February 23, 2013 by

FROM HEARTWRECKS By Nicolas Destino RESURRECTION Back in the city they were erecting the moon every night with ropes, pulling, as everything needed to rise to reverse what fell. In an upstate kitchen, amid the languid, flat dough, they got … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JEHANNE DUBROW

Posted on January 26, 2013 by

By Jehanne Dubrow: EROS AND PSYCHE Sculpture by Antonio Canova, 1787 (Today’s poem originally appeared in AGNI Online and appears here today with permission from the poet.) Jehanne Dubrow is the author of four poetry collections, including most recently Red … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: STEPHANIE BRYANT ANDERSON

Posted on December 15, 2012 by

SOMETIMES THE BLOOD GOES COLD By Stephanie Bryant Anderson My sleeping bones live, like snow on snow, I hear them speak: another day, another night. Another. Another. Sometimes                                    (in the hours that you’re gone) the blood goes cold. (Today’s poem … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: STEVIE EDWARDS

Posted on November 17, 2012 by

By Stevie Edwards: POEM WITH PEARS IN IT After Robert Hass Everything in the college cafeteria is the fleshy color of canned pears and so am I because it is winter. * Because it is winter and fresh fruit is … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: NICOLAS DESTINO

Posted on November 3, 2012 by

FANTASY for Jeffrey by Nicolas Destino We loved wind so much that we talked about buying kites. When we finally bought kites, we continued to talk about flying them on windy days. We talked about disasters, where the kites would … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ANYA SILVER

Posted on August 11, 2012 by

FRENCH TOAST By Anya Silver Pain perdu: lost bread. Thick slices sunk in milk, fringed with crisp lace of browned egg and scattered sugar. Like spongiest challah, dipped in foaming cream and frothy egg, richness drenching every yeasted crevice and … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOHN REPP

Posted on July 28, 2012 by

Photo by Katherine Knupp THE LETTER By John Repp In the letter,              she says she doesn’t want to end              the letter so I’ll never stop reading              this scrap light as ash in the pit              where I’ve sworn for thirty years … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: REGIE CABICO

Posted on June 30, 2012 by

IT’S NOT SO MUCH HIS KISS I RECALL AS HIS VOICE By Regie Cabico A shy pebble rippling water. Each phrase a school of startled ginger fish shimmering through the telephone line. I’d like to invite you to my place … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: HANNAH FRIES

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

By Hannah Fries: BUT SEE how an orchid is made to look like sex, or             specifically, like the tachinid fly                         who has landed on a leaf to flash             her private parts in the sun, opening and closing so the light … Continue reading →

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