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.
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?’
Cat Dixon
Cat Dixon’s poem ‘Cancer Ate My Mother’
Hannah Rousselot
Hannah Rousselot’s poem ‘Sleepwalking’
Barbara A Meier
Barbara A Meier’s poem ‘Raynaud’s’
Jude Marr
Jude Marr’s poems ‘Evidence of Survival’ and ‘Relics’
Hanna Olters
Hanna Olter’s poem ‘Augusts’
Origins
In our ORIGINS new column George Franklin discusses the inspiration behind his poem ‘Respect’ with artwork by Larisa Lauber
Aurelien Thomas
Aurélien Thomas’s poem ‘A Fetish’
George Franklin
George Franklin’s poem ‘Speaking of Love’
Sandra Sarala
Sandra Sarala’s poems ‘Nocturnal Emission’ and ‘I am not a dream’
A. E. Sadeghipour
A.E. Sadeghipour’s poem ‘Peter Pan’
Steve Kleptetar
Steve Klepetar’s poems ‘Swept with Rain’, ‘The House of Hills’, and ‘A Trail of Crumbs’
Debbie Collins
Debbie Collins’s poem ‘Untitled #8’
Elizabeth Harmatys Park
Elizabeth Harmatys Park’s poem ‘Killer Bees’
Irene Cunningham
Irene Cunningham’s poem ‘ WARNING: We are coming’
Kathryn Robyn
Kathryn Robyn’s poem ‘When You Can’t See the Sun’
Jeremy Nathan Marks
Jeremy Nathan Marks’s poems ‘Springtime in Washington’ and ‘Give a poor man a fish’
Feby Joseph
Feby Joseph’s poem ‘Sometimes’
Ellen J. Shabshai Fox
Ellen J. Shabshai Fox’s poem ‘Coffee House’
Clara Burghelea
Clara Burghelea’s poem ‘Things my mother brought to life’
Argos MacCallum
Argos MacCallum’s poem ‘Showman’
When My Emotions Are Hurt
Spoken word performance of ‘When My Emotions Are Hurt’ by Berlin artist and poet Lady Gaby
Bridget McGill
Bridget McGill’s poem ‘Autumn Harvest’
Craig McGeady
Craig McGeady’s poem ‘The Imprint of Her Thoughts’
Drew Pisarra
Drew Pisarra’s poem ‘Sonnet 10-4’
