Poetic Medicine

By Robinson Jeffers The extraordinary patience of things! This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses- How beautiful whe...

By Mary Mulvill I want to write about starting over. About how the outgoing tide recedes, almost imperceptible at first, but st...

By Kitty O’Meara And the people stayed home. And they listened, and read books, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played gam...

By Jericho Brown  Dubbed undetectable, I can’t kill The people you touch, and I can’t Blur your view Of the pansies you’ve planted Out...

By Jessica Salfia In these uncertain times as we navigate the new normal Are you willing to share your ideas and solutions? As you know...

By Adam Clay Today I wonder who moved the high steeples of my childhood, knowing there's a twist at the end of the answer because...

By Yayoi Kusama Though it glistens just out of reach, I continue to pray for hope to shine through Its glimmer lighting our way This l...

By  Yuan Changming  怒 :  anger  influxes when slavery                                                                         Rises ...

By Peg Duthie  Fingers numb from lack of insulin and lack of heat he sighs at the tremors almost thwarting his placing ...

By Charles Bernstein Home team suffers string of losses.—Time to change loyalties. Quadruple bypass.—Hold the bacon on that next chee...

By Tim Dlugos when I no longer feel it breathing down my neck it's just around the corner (hi neighbor)

By Natalie Diaz Angels don’t come to the reservation. Bats, maybe, or owls, boxy mottled things. Coyotes, too. They all mean the sa...

By Zoe Leonard I want a dyke for president. I want a person with aids for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone...

By Maya Angelou A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the ora...

By Marge Piercy Among my husbands and lovers I had never before lived with a sports fan. Hockey he does not follow, but base- ball, ba...

Compiled by Jack S. Margolis THE POSITION The position is To withhold Information And to cover up This is Totally true. You could ...

By Kwame Alexander Here's to my treadmill, incomplete without the sound of slapping feet. Eating healthy, getting abs But chips an...

 By Marjorie Maddox of rites of passage, even celebration unlocking— behind the already unlocked doors— such triggers of rage,  l’...

By Michelle Tea all of my friends have such complete control over their lives. they can kill themselves any time they want to. right now...

By Tina Isom-Carey I’ve come too far for you not to respect my scars.  Pages left unturned happiness passed up because lessons never l...