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.
Charles Venable
Charles Venable’s poem ‘Found in the Corner of a Child’s Notebook’
Lisbeth L. McCarty
Lisbeth L. McCarty’s poem ‘The Choreography of Chlorophyll’
Bruce McRae
Bruce McRae’s poems ‘Some Angelology’, ‘Wetting the Baby’s Head’ and ‘The Devil’s Sportscar’
Cheryl Caesar
Cheryl Caesar’s poems ‘Stored Credit’ and ‘Photo: on the dock at Black Lake, Michigan’
Martin Willitts Jr.
Martin Willitts Jr.’s poem ‘Sensing in the Darkness’
John Hicks
John Hick’s poem ‘Ars New Mexico’
Wendy DeGroat
Wendy DeGroat’s poem ‘What Food (In) Security Sounds Like’
Sandra Fees
Sandra Fees’ poem ‘A Heart-Bearing Thing’
George Franklin
George Franklin’s poems ‘Agua’, ‘Caffè Corretto’, and ‘Yellow Peaches from Chile’
Franci Louann
Franci Louann’s poem ‘La Gorda’
Raymond Luczak
Raymond Luczak’s poem ‘Mother’s Bistro & Bar’
Mary Lee
Mary Lee poems ‘Leftovers’, ‘A room with a table and a fire’, and ‘Thirst’
Charissa Menefee
Charissa Menefee’s poems ‘The Poet Ponders Porridge’ and ‘Future Stores’
Anne Harding Woodworth
Anne Harding Woodworth’s poems ‘At the Drive-Thru, 5 a.m.’ and ‘Translation Typo’
Uzomah Ugwu
Uzomah Ugwu’s poem ‘401K wheel’
Dmitry Bliznuik
Dmitry Blizniuk’s poem ‘One-legged Angels’
Amy Roberts
Amy Roberts’ poem ‘If You Want Me’
MD Kerr
MD Kerr’s poems ‘The Thing’ and ‘Janet & Thomas’
Vince Gotera
Vince Gotera’s poems ‘Magic Horses’ and ‘Magic Carpet’
Giles Goodland
Giles Goodland’s poems ‘Heron Ascending’, ‘Gravity’, and ‘Clouds taken for Mountains’
