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Poems of the Week: 2020–2021

  • Kelsey Hennegen

    I want everything to mean. To have worth and weight. But it doesn’t.

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  • Bob Hicok

    Weird that yellow’s the color of cowardice when the sun never runs.

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  • Patrick James Errington

    Some night soon you’ll haul yourself out from far beneath this life.

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  • Nadra Mabrouk

    Every dawn you’d toss the feed, your hands faithful to the good work of rising.

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  • Michael A. Reyes

    On her tongue was a wick and her body was invented a nation of lice.

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  • Dan Gerber

    As you watch the picture and begin to notice more, the nothing grows less.

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  • Karen Harryman

    The keys look like Tommy’s teeth once he began to appreciate meth.

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Poems of the Week: 2020–2021

Poem of the Week

  • Emma BinderYou Never Told Me If There Was Any Moon in Baltimore
  • William BlakeFrom “Spring”
  • Patrick James ErringtonFor a Liberation of Bees
  • Rebecca FoustSecond Gratitude
  • Dan GerberNatural World
  • Karen HarrymanFrom Here
  • Kelsey HennegenNostalgia in February
  • Bob HicokStops and Starts
  • Emily Jern-MillerAfter Calling Your Detective’s Discontinued Number
  • Laura KasischkePrayer
  • Pippin LapishLipstick Bathroom
  • Jessica LeeWhen I Think of Early Romance
    I Think of Fishing
  • Nadra MabroukThe Poultry Trader’s Daughter Inherits the Business
  • Catherine PondForest Horse
  • Josh RathkampDay of the Dead
  • Michael A. ReyesCarmelita/Michael
  • Musō SosekiSnow Valley

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