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.
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’
