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.
Wayne David Hubbard
Wayne David Hubbard’s poems ‘Equitable Distribution of Love’ and ‘Aria No. 7’
Tim J. Brennan
Tim J. Brennan’s poems ‘Ellipsis’, ‘Mother’, and ‘Instinctual’
Craig Finlay
Craig Finlay’s poem ‘It Will, Though’
Shelby Lynn Lanaro
Shelby Lynn Lanaro’s poem ‘Breath of Life’
Roberto C. Elizondo
Roberto C. Elizondo’s poem ‘A Future Monk’
Carlo Rey Lacsamana
Carlo Rey Lacsamana’s poem ‘For such a time as this (Three Poetic Studies in Breathing)’
Robert Hirschfield
Robert Hirschfield’s poems ‘Being Born’ and ‘Last Look’
Rachel Small
Rachel Small’s poem ‘Methods of Coping’
Sarah Drumm
Sarah Drumm’s poem ‘Beast’
Rp Verlaine
Rp Verlaine’s poem ‘Anne’
Penny Blackburn
Penny Blackburn’s poems ‘I am the one who puts them there’, ‘We All Bought into the Myth’, and ‘When They Call Something a Warzone’
Robert L Penick
Robert L. Penick’s poems ‘Storm’ and ‘Wicked’
Shannon Frost Greenstein
Shannon Frost Greenstein’s poem ‘Dedicated to My Nemesis, Because I’m Still Not Over It’
Katie Ellen Bowers
Katie Ellen Bowers’s poem ‘All Other Forgotten Tuesdays’
Ellen Huang
Ellen Huang’s poem ‘Lon Po Po’
Zoe Mitchell
Zoe Mitchell’s poem ‘Making Medea: A Recipe by Belle Gunness, Murderess’
Último Día/Last Day Review
Review of the poetry collection Último Día/Last Day by Ximena Gómez
Katie Pagano
Katie Pagano’s poems ‘Sky Woman’ and ‘Get High’
Kurt Newton
Kurt Newton’s poems ‘Sleets’ and ‘Mirror Universe’
Martin Breul
Martin Breul’s poem ‘Roots and Seeds’
Michael Lee Johnson
Michael Lee Johnson’s poem ‘Fall Thunder’
Milton P. Ehrlich
Milton P. Ehrlich’s poem ‘The Light Within the Light’
Chokoro Nderhe Paulin
Chokoro Nderhe Paulin’s poem ‘At the time’
Antoni Ooto
Antoni Ooto’s poems ‘War’, ‘Eight Minutes’, and ‘Night Beat’
John Di Leonardo
John Di Leonardo’s poem ‘Bird at God’s Window’
Robert Beveridge
Robert Beveridge’s poem ‘THERE’S A TOWN SOMEWHERE ON THE EDGE OF A DESERT’
Mycah Miller
Mycah Miller’s poem ‘i’ve only ever been cute in the summer’
Mary Beth Hines
Mary Beth Hines’s poem ‘Petition for a Blessing’
L. Ward Abel
L. Ward Abel’s poems ‘The Ground Gives Way’ and ‘I Begin to Sense the Burning of Books’
Justine Gardner
Justine Gardner’s poems ‘Dear Gamekeeper’ and ‘What are you afraid of?’
Sally Delancy
Sally Delancy’s poem ‘Light on the Hills’
Judy DeCroce
Judy DeCroce’s poems ‘A City Turning Its Back’ and ‘On Broken Streets of War’
Aaron Sandberg
Aaron Sandberg’s poem ‘In Event of Space Disaster’
‘Grief Bacon’ review
Review of the poetry collection ‘Grief Bacon’ by CL Bledsoe
A Silent War
Ross Thompson’s poetry project ‘A Silent War’
Michal Mahgerefteh
Michal Mahgerefteh’s poem ‘Bone’
Trishita Das
Trishita Das’s poems ‘jol-khabar’ and ‘market value’
Theresa C. Gaynord
Theresa C. Gaynord’s poem ‘Infidelity’
Michele Tracy Berger
Michele Berger’s poem ‘Last Fortune Cookie Writer Dies’
Lisa Reynolds
Lisa Reynolds’ poem ‘Nana Loves To Eat Strawberries’
Bruce McRae
Bruce McRae’s poems ‘Inedible’ and ‘Rations’
Anindita Sarkar
Anindita Sarkar’s poem ‘Forever Hungry’
Alicia Elkort
Alicia Elkort ‘Grandmother sips black tea’ and ‘The Intimacy of an Avocado’
Ximena Gómez
Ximena Gómez’s poems ‘When the Rain Stops’ and ‘Hillside Barrio’
Carol Alena Aronoff
Carol Alena Aronoff’s poems ‘What Comes Next’, ‘In This Time of Transition’ and ‘Now’
Ian C. Smith
Ian C. Smith’s poems ‘Cities of this Earth’ and ‘Green Grass’
Heather Sager
Heather Sager’s poems ‘Summer Love (Chicago)’ and ‘Celebration’
JB Stone
J.B. Stone’s poems ‘After Tomorrowland’ and ‘What did the river tell you?’
Harry Gallagher
Harry Gallagher’s poems ‘In The Past, The Future Was Great’, ‘Archaeologist’, and ‘Friday Night Rehearsal’
Ann Christine Tabaka
Ann Christine Tabaka’s poems ‘Watching Wondered Thoughts Walk Off’, ‘Summer’s Fallen Memories’, and ‘The Answer to the Question’
Allan Lake
Allan Lake’s poem ‘Here, After’
Terhi K. Cherry
Terhi K. Cherry’s poem ‘In Superposition’
Jennifer Rich
Jennifer Rich’s poem ‘Iridescence’
JS Fuller
JS Fuller’s poem ‘Crossing Raton Pass’
Sven Kretzschmar
Sven Kretzschmar’s poem ‘The shapes of words within us’
Don Edward Walicek
Don Edward Walicek’s poem ‘The Mahogany Tree’
Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen’s poem ‘Waning’
Heather Bourbeau
Heather Bourbeau’s poem ‘When I Was a Ghost’
Vivian Wagner
Vivian Wagner’s poems ‘Wholestory’ and ‘Handicraft’
Kurt Newton
Kurt Newton’s poem ‘These Shapes That We’ve Become’
Sharon Suzuki Martinez
Sharon Suzuki Martinez’s poems ‘Turtles’ and ‘Blood Memory’
Jade Riordan
Jade Riordan’s poems ‘Faintest Mirror’ and ‘Snow Melt’
Alison Essinger
Alison Essinger’s poem ‘3:30 Bird’
Kimberly Williams
Kimberly Williams’s poems ‘Being Frank: A Daughter Reflects’, ‘The Wish’ and ‘Morning Thoughts (It Is, Part I)’
Karen Byk
Karen Byk’s poem ‘Object of Desire’
Priscilla Frake
Priscilla Frake’s poems ‘What Should I Ask For? What Should I Ask?,’ ‘Sunday Conversations with my Mother,’ and ‘Passenger Safety Information, DAL Love Field.’
Joseph Mills
Joseph Mills’s poems ‘The Deep End’, ‘In Jane Austen’, and ‘A Brief History of Time’
Ina Jain
Ina Jain’s poems ‘Wayward Passage’, ‘Solar Storms’, and ‘Spring Tide’
Lennart Lundh
Lennart Lundh’s poem ‘There are doves here’
KB Ballentine
KB Ballentine’s poems ‘Cobwebs, Breathing’, ‘Return My Dreams to Me’, and ‘At Letting Go’
Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
Felicia Sanzari Chernesky’s poems ‘Valentine’, ‘I Will Not Speak of the Dead’, and ‘Prayer’
Wendy Clements
Wendy Clements’s poem ‘Windows to My Heart’
Kirsty A. Niven
Kirsty A. Niven’s poems ‘Prophecy’, ‘Into the Wild’, and ‘Five Minutes
Carole Anzovin
Carole Anzovin’s poem ‘melt’
Tobias Freeman
Tobias Freeman’s poem ‘The Winter House’
Serene Leong
Serene Leong’s poems ‘Homesick’ and ‘Willow Tree’
Nadia Farjami
Nadia Farjami’s poem ‘black hole’
Jason O’Toole
Jason O’Toole’s poem ‘Oxygen in Use’
Gary Rosin
Gary Rosin’s poem ‘Crossing Kansas’
Dargan M. Ware
Dargan M. Ware’s poem ‘The Words that Come in Winter’
Bruce McRae
Bruce McRae’s poem ‘Pioneer’s Diary’
mr oCean
mr oCean’s poem ‘A Winter Watercolour’
Naomi Hill
Naomi Hill’s poem ‘Ice’
Ann Privateer
Ann Privateer’s poem ‘Cornering’
Adrian Ibarra
Adrian Ibarra’s poem ‘thaw of the permafrost’
Nate Maxson
Nate Maxson’s poem ‘Diagram for a Rain Machine’
Katrina Dybzynska
Katrina Dybzynska’s poem ‘End of the Road’
Karen Petersen
Karen Petersen’s poem ‘Routine’
Jake Tringali
Jake Tringali’s poem ‘looking for logic in a long island iced tea’
Carol McMahon
Carol McMahon’s poem ‘Dead Weight’
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’
