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I Am Counter Current – Guest Poetry Blog # 21 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Canadian Poet Kate Marshall Flaherty– Part One of Two

salmon— i am shimmer-skinned, spawning flecks of red, shiny-finned, i flick my gills wide for breath and wriggle side to side in fresh water i must swim up against smoothed […]

“For This I Could Not Speak” – Ian “Bowline” Bruce R.I.P. – 1953-2023

News Of Death – For Tom Charlotte Last night they came with news of death not knowing what I would say. I wanted to say, “The green wind is running […]

Listening to the Quiet Part of You – Guest Poetry Blog # 20 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Poet and Writing Workshop leader, Mary Ann Moore – Part One of Two

Mending                                                                                 So it’s just the four of you Josef said, referring to you, me and our two cats, Izzy and Squeak. When I sit down with you to look across […]

Katie Farris Makes the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize (for Poetry) Shortlist for her Poetry Collection “Standing in the Forest of Being Alive”

A Week before Surgery I Practice my Body like Giotto’s angels, skecthed from his studies of sheep, I open the jaws of my back to the sky eating my body […]

Brimming With What the Women Know Of Their World – Guest Poetry Blog Series # 13 – Part Two of Two – Canadian Poet Terry Ann Carter Features “Pink Hibiscus: Poems of the South Pacific” by Ottawa-based Poet Claudia Coutu Radmore

the women of the village tell me at night shut all windows and the door devils like to creep in the dark if a devil creeps a woman her baby […]

Poetry, Sometimes as a Prayer, as a Recognition of Persistence – The Latest Poetry Collection from American Poet Jennifer Grotz

    iPoem Now there are mini-moons, I read, primordial crumbs. Or rather there always were but now our instruments are sensitive enough to register. It probably means I’m dead. […]

For This I Came – Guest Poetry Blog Series # 18 – Part Two of Two – Canadian Poet Barbara Pelman Features Jewish American Poet, Alicia Ostriker (1937-)

from SEASONAL When the full sun is on me this way I itch and am satisfied I take it in like a thirsty man drinking from his garden hose I […]

In Spite of Loss Remembering How To Fall In Love With the World Itself – Brian Turner’s First of Three New Poetry Collections Being Released in 2023 – Elegies and Love Poems to His Late Wife Ilyse Kusnetz and to the World

Geologic When I don’t have a body anymore. When I’m ash and fragmented bone. I think about the early people, trapped between one geological era and another, unfathomable. Their dust […]

Our Burning World – Poems and Other Writing by W.S. Merwin, Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford and Katie Farris

In this trembling moment, with light armor under several flags rolling across northern Syria, with civilians beaten to death in the streets of occupied Palestine, with fires roaring across the […]

Why Is The World Like This? Guest Poetry Blog Series # 14 – Part Two – American Poet Christopher Locke Features American Poet Denis Johnson

Guest Blog Post by Christopher Locke, June 22nd, 2023 Passengers The world will burst like an intestine in the sun, the dark turn to granite and the granite to a […]