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.
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’
