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.
Xe M. Sánchez
Xe M. Sánchez’s poems ‘TO THESE BEACHES’ and ‘IF YOU WANT TO ESCAPE’
Sha Huang
Sha Huang’s poem ‘All About Now’
Shelby Lynn Lanaro
Shelby Lynn Lanaro’s poems ‘Liberation’ and If I Were Single’
Ryan Gibbs
Ryan Gibbs’s poems ‘am Main’ and ‘danke schön’
Robin Neal
Robin Neal’s poems ‘Beneath the Willow’ and ‘Pelagic’
Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis
Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis’s poems ‘Waterfall Climbing’ and ‘Conversions’
Melody Wang
Melody Wang’s poems ‘The Sea is Still Speaking to Me’ and ‘We Always Have Been’
Kate Meyer-Currey
Kate Meyer-Currey’s poem ‘Surfacing’
Jennifer Tan
Jennifer Tan’s poem ‘Escape from the Blue Garden’
Erin Wilson
Erin Wilson’s poem ‘Poem Whispered to the Loved One’
Cleo Rohn
Cleo Rohn’s poems ‘The First Time You See Him With Her’ and ‘The City is a Crossword Puzzle Half-Solved’
Christopher Clauss
Christopher Clauss’s poems ‘Closing Up’ and ‘Close Talker’
Anu Mahadev
Anu Mahadev’s poem ‘Grief’
Joe Cottonwood
Joe Cottonwood’s poem ‘Fawn, interrupted’
Center Stage
Center Stage celebrates the work of poet Darla Himeles
Susan Wolbarst
Susan Wolbarst’s poem ‘Chrissie’s Cat’
Roberta Tracy
Roberta Tracy’s poem ‘R.O.A.R.’
KB Nelson
KB Nelson’s poem ‘Oregon Coast’
Evie Groch
Evie Groch’s poem ‘Truth or Dare’
Rhonda Melanson
Rhonda Melanson’s poem ‘Walking as Resistance’
Paola Caronni
Paola Caronni’s poem ‘Inle Illusion’
Joan Hofmann
Joan Hofmann’s poem ‘Amen’ and ‘Holding On (at the Annual Community Grieving Ceremony)’
Jacqueline Jules
Jacqueline Jules’s poem ‘On the Way to Chemo’
Elaine Reardon
Elaine Reardon’s poems ‘The New Girl’ and ‘Eduardo’
Debasis Tripathy
Debasis Tripathy’s poem ‘Poets Starting After Forty’
Center Stage
Center Stage celebrates the work of poet Martin Willitts Jr.
Vanessa R. Bradley
Vanessa R. Bradley’s poems ‘Ocean, Alive’ and ‘On Self-Reliance’
Sarah Carleton
Sarah Carleton’s poem ‘Among Wolves’
Center Stage
Center Stage celebrates the work of poet Yamini Pathak
Sherre Vernon
Sherre Vernon’s poem ‘Where the Veil is Thin’
Marianne Peel
Marianne Peel’s poem ‘I Played Among the Talking Trees’
Gaby Bila
Lady Gaby’s spoken word performance of her poem ‘A Death (in Romania)’
Joseph Farina
Joseph Farina’s poems ‘daring of spirits’, ‘invocation’, and ‘epiphany under polaris’
Jaime Speed
Jaime Speed’s poem ‘Disappear to chase trains’
Hiba Heba
Hiba Heba’s poems ‘A postcard from my mother who met death in the most startling way’, ‘Asylum’, and ‘Prelude’
Dotty LeMieux
Dotty LeMieux’s poem ‘Sister Moon’
GTimothy Gordan
GTimothy Gordan’s poems ‘PALE FIRES I & PALE FIRES II’ and ‘EMPTY HEAVEN, EMPTY EARTH’
Brittney Corrigan
Brittney Corrigan’s poems ‘The Last Two Northern White Rhinos Discuss the Birds and the Bees’, ‘Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit’, and ‘Orion in the Oregon Outback’
Sha Huang
Sha Huang’s poem ‘The Gift’
Marjorie Jensen
Marjorie Jensen’s poem ‘Spider’
Leslie Dianne
Leslie Dianne’s poems ‘Bloom’ and ‘The River’
John Dorroh
John Dorroh’s poem ‘Ring of Love’
Joan Kwon Glass
Joan Kwon Glass’s poem ‘The Last Time I Held My Sister’
Glen Armstrong
Glen Armstrong’s poem ‘Year of the Sea Monkey XCIX’
Emma Gomis
Emma Gomis’s poem ‘Soft Fruit’
Elizabeth Myhr
Elizabeth Myhr’s poem ‘let me have gold and blue’
Elizabeth Mercurio
Elizabeth Mercurio’s poem ‘Words in a Nightjar’
Cormac Culkeen
Cormac Culkeen’s poems ‘In Every House’, ‘Nora’, and ‘Triggers
Beth Brody
Beth Brody’s poem ‘The Nature of Things’
Abriana Jetté
Abriana Jetté ‘Risk Forgiveness’, ‘Quarantine Quarrel’, and ‘Malibu’
Apple Mae Pandian
Apple Mae Pandian’s poems ‘Surrender, This Time’ and ‘August On My Mind’
Literary Lines
Our new LITERARY LINES column featuring the Tower Poetry Society
Center Stage
CENTER STAGE presents the work of poet Moni Brar
Felicia Sanzari Chernesky
Felicia Sanzari Chernesky’s poem ‘Lost and Found’
Rose Mary Boehm
Rose Mary Boehm’s poems ‘Another Ordinary Story’, ‘At the end of a war’ and ‘Letter to Angst’
Moni Brar
Moni Brar’s poems ‘Hummingbirds for Bees’, ‘Migrant Parents’, and ‘Murmuration’
Matt Thomas
Matt Thomas’s poem ‘Yield’
Margarita Serafimova
Margarita Serafimova’s poem ‘The Earthly Dream’
Maggie D. Brace
Maggie D. Brace’s poem ‘Liturgy of a New Moon’
Keri Withington
Keri Withington’s poem ‘New Moon’ and ‘I dreamt of triplets’
Jennifer L. Turney
Jennifer L. Turney’s poem ‘Self-discovery’
Janna Knittel
Janna Knittel’s poems ‘First Anniversary’, ‘Thin Places’, and ‘Willamette Highway’
Duru Gungor
Duru Gungor’s poem ‘Soft Geometry’
Adele Phillips
Adele Phillips’s poem ‘An Imagined Spring’
Swastika Jajoo
Swastika Jajoo’s poem ‘makkhan/butter’
Sreedevi Anumula
Sreedevi Anumula’s poems ‘Window’ and ‘Beneath the Bending Birches’
Renée M. Sgroi
Renée M. Sgroi’s poem ‘preparing to overwinter’
Sam Houty
Sam Houty’s poem ‘Drummer Boy’
Melody Wang
Melody Wang’s poem ‘what shall become of our pact?’
Martin Willitts Jr.
Martin Willitts Jr.’s poems ‘Winter Tanka’, ‘First Snow’ and ‘Tea House at Koishikawa. The Morning after a Snowfall’
Helen Moore
Helen Moore’s poem ‘Tracks & Signs’
Gregory Luce
Gregory Luce’s poem ‘Mind of Winter’
Federica Santini
Federica Santini’s poem ‘Substrata’
Frances Boyle
Frances Boyle’s poem ‘Spectral’
Evie Groch
Evie Groch’s poems ‘Uncertain Prayer’, ‘Bless Me’ and ‘Wicked Music’
Deborah Purdy
Deborah Purdy’s poems ‘Winter Solstice’, ‘Winter Clearing’ and ‘After a Sudden and Unexpected Loss’
Cathy Miller
Cathy Miller’s poem ‘Dance A Christmas Morning’
Open Your Eyes Review
Mike Hembury’s review of the poetry anthology ‘Open Your Eyes’ edited by Vinita Agrawal
Angela Topping
Angela Topping’s poems ‘Seaham Sea Glass in Winter’, ‘Tree Music’, and ‘Blackbird, Shopping’
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Anatoly Kudryavitsky’s poems ‘Decembering Through’ and ‘Finlandia’
Alison Lock
Alison Lock’s poems ‘West Nab to Marsden’ and ‘Clematis vitalba/Old Man’s Beard’
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’
