POETRY
Poetry has a special place in the heart of The Wild Word and we believe that the world is a better place with poetry in it.
We have been delighted and honored to publish the poets below.
Read some of the poems below and you may find yourself transported, your world changed, or that your day just got a little bit brighter.
Terry S. Johnson
Terry S. Johnson’s poems ‘Dialysis Before Daybreak’, ‘Shifting Beach’, and ‘The Sentence’
Ruth Ticktin
Jonathan Borba’s poems ‘Follow the Flow’, ‘Ever Light’, and ‘My Friend’
Peggy Heitmann
Peggy Heitmann’s poems ‘The Exchange’, ‘What the Man Needs is No Different than the Boy’, and ‘My Darling’
Michael Theroux
Michael Theroux’s poems ‘Fall Morning Light’ and ‘Histories of Nations’
Michael T. Young
Michael T. Young’s poems ‘What We Touch in Each Other’ and ‘Interruption’
Max Cavitch
Max Cavitch’s poem ‘Home Work’
Matthew J. Andrews
Matthew J. Andrews’s poems ‘Love Poem with Chalupas’, ‘Stargazer’, and ‘Strip Monopoly’
Laura Davies
Laura Davies’s poems ‘Leaving’, ‘The Loss of I’ and ‘Divorce’
Kersten Christianson
Kersten Christianson’s poems ‘When the Heart Leaps’, ‘From the Outer Coast’ and ‘Come-hither to the Hearth’
Katrina Kaye
Katrina Kaye’s poems ‘Forever’, ‘Masterpiece’, and ‘Twenty Poems of Love by Pablo Neruda’
Karin Molde
Karin Molde’s poems ‘I dream myself into the map of Tanzania’, ‘Dog roses, May 1945’, and ‘Moonlight Serenade’
Julie Taylor Green
Julie Taylor Green’s poem ‘A Poet on the Train’
Jim Brosnan
Jim Brosnan’s poems ‘Captured Moments’, ‘Lost in Dreams’, and ‘Spring in Newington’
Jennifer M. Phillips
Jennifer M. Phillips’s poem ‘Eyelids’
Jean Baur
Jean Baur’s poems ‘SINGING’ and ‘A FLOODED WOOD’
Jacqueline Jules
Jacqueline Jules’s poems ‘On My 67th Birthday’, ‘The Day You Were Born’ and ‘Dearest Wish’
Erin Jamieson
Erin Jamieson’s poem ‘Maybe We Should Open the Blinds’
David Perkins
David Perkins’s poem ‘And Time’
David Milley
David Milley’s poem ‘Day is Done’
Chris Pellizzari
Chris Pellizzari’s poem ‘The Olive Tree in Granada where Lorca is Buried at Night’
Buffy Shutt
Buffy Shutt’s poems ‘An Inch or So of Time’ and ‘A Waltz’
Buffy Aakaash
Buffy Aakaash’s poem ‘One Tennessee Summer’
Becca Miles
Becca Miles’s poem ‘My Equinox Love’
Anne Graue
Anne Graue’s poems ‘Love like a splendid storm’, ‘The Dream of the Cave’, and ‘Elasticity’
Matt Thomas
Matt Thomas’s poem ‘Cotán’
Daniel Schulz
Daniel Schulz’s poems ‘Sorrow’ and ‘A Fulfilled Life’
George Franklin
George Franklin’s poems ‘Watching a Hurricane Pass to the West’, ‘In Bogotá’, and ‘What We Know, What We Can’t Know’
John Savoie
John Savoie’s poems ‘Candlelight Service’, ‘Duende at Dawn’, and ‘Old House’
J.M. Summers
J.M. Summers’s poem ‘There it is’
Matt Duffy
Matt Duffy’s poem ‘Mendocino’
Carol Edwards
Carol Edwards’s poem ’48 days’
Ximena Gomez
Ximena Gomez’s poem The Perpetrator/El autor del delito
Phil Wood
Phil Wood’s poem ‘5am’
Jenne Micale
Jenne Micale’s poems ‘Fire Weather’, ‘The Red Barn’, and ‘Fumata’
Yichielle Gigi Devendra
Yichielle Gigi Devendra’s poem ‘After this evening, I’
Andrew Senior
Andrew Senior’s poem ‘In Waiting’
Center Stage – Mary Brancaccio
Center Stage celebrates the work of poet Mary Brancaccio and her new collection Fierce Geometry
Review of ‘Contrapasso’
Review of Alexandra Fössinger’s poetry collection ‘Contrapasso’
Rosemarie Barr
Rosemarie Barr’s ‘At the Lake’s Edge’, ‘Black Hole’, and ‘Cellophane-wrapped Flowers’
Sharon Berg
Sharon Berg’s poem ‘Fossils’
Will Reger
Will Reger’s poem ‘Last Dance’
M.J. Arcangelini
M.J. Arcangelini’s poem ‘A Restless Night’
LKN
LKN’s poem ‘The Planting Season’
J.M. Summers
J.M. Summers’s poems ‘Bleeding Sinuses’, ‘It has been five years’, and ‘We Are Waiting, Always’
Claudia Mills
Claudia Mills’s poems ‘Old Boyfriends’ and ‘Walking with Tanky-the-Dog’
Bobbi Sinha-Morey
Bobbi Sinha-Morey’s poem ‘Tears of Surrender’
Alison Stone
Alison Stone’s poems ‘Kindred’, ‘Reminiscing with my Teen Best Friend’, and ‘Cargo’
Sun Shih-Min
Sun Shih-Min’s poem ‘Like a fine, tattered, fragment of earth lied the branches’
Jacqueline Jules
Jacqueline Jules’s poem ‘Low Tide’
Michał Choiński
Michał Choiński’s poems ‘Synesthesia’, ‘Bare’ and ‘Method’
Sharon Whitehill
Sharon Whitehill’s poems ‘Spines’ and ‘Watching the Watcher’
Mary Christine Kane
Mary Christine Kane’s poem ‘Girl trees’
Daniel Edward Moore
Daniel Edward Moore’s poem ‘Safe Words’
Beth Brody
Beth Brody’s poem ‘Respite’
Richard L. Matta
Richard L. Matta’s poems ‘Accidental Release’ and ‘Pottery Studio’
Mary Marie Dixon
Mary Marie Dixon’s poems ‘Bloom’, ‘Winter’, and ‘Tilting Away’
Rekha Valliappan
Rekha Valliappan’s poems ‘regrets’, ‘in the pale blue light’, and ‘A Symphony of Echoes’
Mary Buchinger
Mary Buchinger’s poems ‘Early Winter’ and ‘Home’
Magdalena Ball
Magdalena Ball’s poem ‘Pigeon Talk’
Karin Molde
Karin Molde’s poems ‘Confinement’ and ‘Spoon-fed’
Juan Pablo Mobili
Juan Pablo Mobili’s poems ‘The Joy of Parks’ and ‘American Coffee’
Jasper Glen
Jasper Glen’s poem ‘Waiting in the Station’
Douglas K. Currier
Douglas K Currier’s poems ‘Night poems’, ‘Living with death’ and ‘Bad decisions’
Dijana Stojanovic
Dijana Stojanovic’s poems ‘Sunday’, ‘Absence of’ and ‘Mouths’
Wayne Lee
Wayne Lee’s poems ‘On the Floor of the Sky’, ‘Shimmer’, and ‘The Clearing’
Tazeen Fatma
Tazeen Fatma’s poem ‘Do souls have a dress too?’
Stephen Mead
Stephen Mead’s poem ‘The Housekeeper’s Work Ethic’
Patrick Cabello Hansel
Patrick Cabello Hansel’s poem ‘THAT WINTER’
Matt Schroeder
Matt Schroeder’s poem ‘o small god’
Laura Theis
Laura Theis’s poems ‘ghost girl’ and ‘welcome and’
Daniel Schulz
Daniel Schulz’s poem ‘Liberty’
Ken Cathers
Ken Cathers’s poems ‘you can never’, ‘one never’ and ‘second chance’
Joe Cottonwood
Joe Cottonwood’s poem ‘Ghosts of every dog’
Claudia M. Reder
Claudia M. Reder’s poem ‘Listen’
Bryan Franco
Bryan Franco’s poem ‘Humidor’
Anne Graue
Anne Graue’s poem ‘My mother’s ghost gestures toward the brighter-than-orange hibiscus’
Ann Iverson
Ann Iverson’s poems ‘Cat Ghost’, ‘At the Counter Paying Bills’, and ‘Again, His Ghost’
Andrew Senior
Andrew Senior’s poem ‘Motorway Dream’
Allegra Jostad Silberstein
Allegra Jostad Silberstein’s poem ‘Rapture’
Alexandra Fössinger
Alexandra Fössinger’s poem ‘Negative’
Sarah Carleton
Sarah Carleton’s poems ‘Underwater Tea Party’ and ‘Portent’
Rosalie Sanara Petrouske
Rosalie Sanara Petrouske’s poems ‘The Last August in my House by the River’ and ‘Road Maps’
Phil Wood
Phil Wood’s poems ‘Samhain’, ‘SAD’ and ‘Umeshu’
M.J. Iuppa
M.J. Iuppa’s poems ‘Waking, without knowing’, ‘God’s Eye View’, and ‘Waiting for Nothing’
Martin J. Elster
Martin J. Elster’s poem ‘That Bitter Night’
Lynn Fast
Lynn Fast’s poems ‘The Willow Mother’ and ‘The Cidery’
Lennart Lundh
Lennart Lundh’s poem ‘Coming on Winter’
Kate Maxwell
Kate Maxwell’s poems ‘Celsius’, ‘Chrysalis’, and ‘Swimming Lessons’
Juan Pablo Mobili
Juan Pablo Mobili poems ‘My Father Waves from the Other Rock’, ‘The Photograph’, and ‘The Gash’
Joe Cottonwood
Joe Cottonwood’s poem ‘Community Pool’
Jan Haag
Jan Haag’s poems ‘Liquid Meditation’ and ‘Old oak, coming down’
Dorothy Cantwell
Dorothy Cantwell’s poems ‘We Came Home Like Wild Cats’ and ‘The White Bird’
Ceri Eagling
Ceri Eagling’s poem ‘Passing Thought’
Carlene M. Gadapee
Carlene M. Gadapee’s poems ‘1972’, ‘Town, Late September’ and ‘Potatoes’
Cara Losier Chanoine
Cara Losier Chanoine’s poems ‘Fever Dreams’ and ‘Flux’
Alicia Viguer-Espert
Alicia Viguer-Espert’s poems ‘Autumn’s Lesson’ and ‘Shades of Light’
Pitambar Naik
Pitambar Naik’s poem ‘Sheep’ (translation of original by Shatrughna Pandab)
Majorie Jensen
Marjorie Jensens’s poem ‘Geological Necromancy’
Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming’s poems ‘I/我 as a Human: a Cross-Cultural Poem’ and ‘Directory of Destinies: a Wuxing Poem’
V.A. Bettencourt
V. A. Bettencourt’s poems ‘Waltz With a Whale Shark’ and ‘Scar’
