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Category Archives: Saturday Poetry Series
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: IRIS JAMAHL DUNKLE
DAPHNE’S BROKEN SONNET By Iris Jamahl Dunkle Apples are imagining themselves onto hillsides – pink petals stick out their tongues from the dark mouths of branches and the forest canopy ripens overnight until it pulses like a green heart. Spring frankensteins … Continue reading
Posted in Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Saturday Poetry, Saturday Poetry Series
Tagged American Poetry, Celebratory Poetry, contemporary poetry, Inspirational Poetry, Love Poetry, moves in contemporary poetry, Narrative Poetry, Nature Poetry, nostalgic poetry, Poetry, poetry review, poetry reviews, Seasonal Poetry, Sensual Poetry, Spiritual Poetry
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ANDREA SHERWOOD
BLACKOUT By Andrea Sherwood I lived a year in a small black box under a barbershop some nights not even an inch of moonshine would sit on the windowsill the room purgatory with no objects no thing save the thick dark … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ERRIC EMERSON
By Erric Emerson: MOTHERLESS If I try eyes-shut hard; recall the misty likeness of a stretcher and air mask, a trailer lined with ice-fangs in Napanoch, a red ball I worshipped at three years old. How your legacy sits in … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: RHIANNON CONLEY
MURMUR by Rhiannon Conley “Did You Know? You can swim through the aorta of a blue whale.” I watched as two children swam, their soft hands like fins pushing themselves out of the open chamber of the imagined whale’s red … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: EMILY BLAIR
By Emily Blair: Today’s poems previously appeared in cream city review (vol. 41.1) and Indiana Review (vol. 39, no.1) and appear here today with permission from the poet. Emily Blair’s poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, Sixth Finch, Juked, Indiana … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LAURA READ
RIP, LAURA’S VAGINA By Laura Read Your vagina is beginning to devitalize, the doctor explained, when I asked him why I had had so many urinary tract infections lately. The first thing I thought was that I should say No, … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: DEEP CALLS TO DEEP
From DEEP CALLS TO DEEP By Jane Medved: WINTER BURIAL For the sky that reaches into its hushed pocket, for the bridle of winter waiting to be released. For the ghost face which slips over everyone, for the tusk of … Continue reading
Posted in Jane Medved, Saturday Poetry, Saturday Poetry Series
Tagged Biblical Poetry, book-length poetry, Confessional Poetry, contemporary poetry, Feminist Poetry, Literary Poetry, Midrashic Poetry, moves in contemporary poetry, Narrative Poetry, nostalgic poetry, Poetry, Poetry Collections, Poetry of Faith, Poetry of Loss, poetry review, poetry reviews, Political Poetry, Religious Poetry, resistance poetry, Spiritual Poetry
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