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.
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’
