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.
Nightsongs
John C. Mannone’s multimedia project and ode to the heavens – Nightsongs
Adesina Ajala
Adesina Ajala’s poem ‘How My Void Takes Form’
Barry Peters
Barry Peter’s poem ‘Constellations’
Connie Backus
Connie Backus’s poem ‘Sanctuary’
Daniel Hudon
Daniel Hudon’s poem ‘Diary of a Russian Cosmonaut’
Eric Paul Shaffer
Eric Paul Shaffer’s poem ‘A Full Moon on Your Birthday’
Feby Joseph
Feby Joseph’s poem ‘Planning an itinerary to visit the moon’
Julia Pileggi
Julia Pileggi’s poem ‘Bird’s Eye’
Laura Murphy
Laura Murphy’s poem ‘Visit from an incubus’
Misha Penton
Misha Penton’s poem ‘New Planet’
Melissa F. Kaelin
Melissa F. Kaelin’s poems ‘The color of my experiences’ and ‘a space’
Sophia Cannizzaro
Sophia Cannizzaro’s poem ‘irrelevant’
Linda Ferguson
Linda Ferguson’s poems ‘Pluto Speaks’, ‘These Summer Nights’, and ‘From the Imaginary Journals of Venetia Burney’
Ann Christine Tabaka
Ann Christine Tabaka’s poem ‘The Beast Shall Have Its Way
Alexis Wolfe
Alexis Wolfe’s poem ‘Wanton Boys’
Joan McNerney
Joan McNerney’s poem ‘I planted my garden’
John C. Mannone
John C. Mannone’s poem ‘Halloween Storybook’
Juleigh Howard Hobson
Juleigh Howard Hobson’s poem ‘Monster’
Kari A. Flickinger
Kari A. Flickinger’s poems ‘A Meme for the Winged’ and ‘Woman Wreathed in Seaweed’
Paul Green
Paul Green’s poem ‘An apology to oranges’
Sandy Rochelle
Sandy Rochelle’s poem ‘Almost Alone’
Virginia Ospitaletche
Virginia Ospitaletche’s poem ‘The Fire’
Zoe Mitchell
Zoe Mitchell’s poem ‘Chanctonbury Ring’
Origins
Amlanjyoti Goswami on the inspiration behind his poem ‘Open Door’
Hannah Madonna
Hannah Madonna’s poems ‘A Lover’s Map’, ‘Rated “M” for Mature’, and ‘To Eat a Peach’
Beverly M. Collins
Beverly M. Collins’ poems ‘Jagged’, ‘Vandal’, and ‘Company’
Daniel Edward Moore
Daniel Edward Moore’s poems ‘Chronic Bliss’
Isabella J. Mansfield
Isabella J Mansfield’s poems ‘Aftershocks’, ‘Untitled’, and ‘Ten Peach Pits Contain Enough Cyanide To Kill You’
Lorette C. Luzajic
Lorette C. Luzajic’s poems ‘You Took Me into the Woods’, ‘The Pornographer’, and ‘Fresh Horses’
Martin Willitts Jr.
Martin Willitts Jr’s poems ‘Encounter’ and ‘Yoshida at Tōkaidō’
Phil Hawtin
Phil Hawtin’s poems ‘Mixing Memory With Desire’ and ‘Head Carved by a Blind Man – in Wood’
Sarah Marquez
Sarah Marquez’s poem ‘A Desirable Woman’
Robert Beveridge
Robert Beveridge’s poem ‘Tower of Silence’
James Steck
James Steck’s poems ‘Sketch of a man in the air’, ‘A Friend in Southwest Virginia’, and ‘View from the balcony across the street’
Shelby Lynn Lanaro
Shelby Lynn Lanaro’s poems ‘Yellowing’ and ‘Date Night’
Sven Kretzschmar
Sven Kretzschmar’s poems ‘A Private Sphere’, ‘Involuntarily Awake’, and ‘ A dream’
Robert Cooperman
Robert Cooperman’s poems ‘Cerise’. ‘Reuben Plays the Painted Mandolin’, and ‘Ruby Clair Tempts Reuben’
Lauren Scharhag
Lauren Scharhag’s poems ‘Return’, ‘Jesus Flicks’, and ‘Girl with a Cigarette’
Kelsie Renehan
Kelsie Renehan’s poems ‘NOT SPEAKING VERY WELL’, ‘KATIE//FOR ALL THE GHOSTS IN OHIO’, and ‘JACOB//JAKE & KELSIE DRIVE TO HOUSTON’
Gianna Sannipoli
Gianna Sannipoli’s poem ‘Summer of Blues’
Demi Whitnell
Demi Whitnell’s poem ‘My summer friend’
mr oCean and Floer
mr Ocean (poetry) and Floer (music) – ‘A Twilight Shore’
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’
Karen Petersen
Karen Petersen’s poems ‘So Let’s Go’, ‘Bergistrall’, and ‘The Walk’
Piet Nieuwland
Piet Nieuwland’s poems ‘Watching the sky speak’, ‘Open to the world’, and ‘On the wing of light’
Sven Kretzschmar
Sven Kretzschmar’s poems ‘Cry of the red kite’, ‘Rose Hips I’, and ‘Lüneburg haiku’
Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming’s poem ‘Snowing against Season’ and ‘Infinitival Infinities’
Rajnish Mishra
Rajnish Mishra’s poem ‘I don’t remember’
Marsha Foss
Marsha Foss’s poem ‘Because of Snow’
Kersten Christianson
Kersten Christianson’s poems ‘‘Wandering’, ‘Now’, and ‘Alaska Yellow Cedar, Nootka False Cypress’
Charlotte Cutter
Charlotte Cutter’s poem ‘Empty Hallways’
Bruce Pemberton
Bruce Pemberton’s poem ‘December 1997’
Mark Bauer
Mark Bauer’s poems ‘Snow in Late Winter’, ‘February’, and ‘From the Outer Reaches of Macomb County, Michigan’
Stephen Seabridge
Stephen Seabridge’s poem ‘Under Snow’
Sarah Schaff
Sarah Schaff’s poems ‘Origins’ and ‘Old Man Winter’
Ryan J Davidson
Ryan J Davidson’s poems ‘of a Tuesday Evening’ and ‘November the 5th’
Parker Jamieson
Parker Jamieson’s poems ‘November 27th, Every Year in Which I Can Remember’ and ‘At Niagara Falls in a Country that is Not My Own’
Catherine Lee
Catherine Lee’s poem ‘Season’s Greeting’
Alexis Wolfe
Alexis Wolfe’s poem ‘First Christmas’
Stephen Mead
Stephen Mead’s poems ‘Ghosts of Christmas’ and ‘Christmas Card From Your Neighbor’
Jo Burns
The New Irish Writing in Germany Award 2018 winner Jo Burns and her poem ‘Hard Borders’
Jay Artemis Hull
Jay Artemis Hull’s poem ‘When Ry came back from therapy’
James Walton
James Walton’s poem ‘Even the Broken Things Entreat’
Carina Contreras
Carina Contreras’s poems ‘ghosting’ and ‘selfie horizon’
Isabella J. Mansfield
Isabella J. Mansfield’s poems ‘Sitting At The Playground With My Son’ and ‘Mom Wants to Talk’
Glenn Pearl
Glenn Pearl’s poems ‘Avery’, ‘This Poem’, and ‘Grey Christmas’
Jeff Santosuosso
Jeff Santosuosso’s poems ‘Family Matters’ and ‘Bakelite Bread Box’
Sharon Mitchell
Sharon Mitchell’s poem ‘Code’
Sam Regal
Sam Regal’s poem ‘Pig Race’
Alyssa Harmon
Alyssa Harmon’s poem ‘but our kids will’
Morag McDowell-Smith
Morag McDowell-Smith’s poems ‘The Vanishing’ and ‘Sockmaggedon’
Paula Persoleo
Paula Perseleo’s poem ‘Tiny Portions’
V.P. Crowe
V.P. Crowe’s poems ‘Among Friends’ and ‘Balance’
Kaitlin Williams
Kaitlin A. William’s poem ‘Carve’
Hio Fae
Hio Fae’s poem ‘Sometimes’
Jeanette Powers
Jeanette Power’s poem ‘Some Quick of Hope’
Kirby Olson
Kirby Olson’s poem ‘Ocean Cities’
Lynn Nicholas
Lynn Nicholas’s poem ‘Watermark Memories’
M.J. Iuppa
M.J. Iupa’s poems ‘Summer Sequel’, ‘Nevertheless’ and ‘That Shade of Purple’
Vivian Wagner
Vivian Wagner’s poems ‘Ra’ and ‘Woodsdark’
Adedayo Ademokoya
Adedayo Ademokoya’s poem ‘What is your alphabet?’
