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.
Pitambar Naik
Pitambar Naik’s poem ‘Sheep’ (translation of original by Shatrughna Pandab)
Majorie Jensen
Marjorie Jensens’s poem ‘Geological Necromancy’
Yuan Changming
Yuan Changming’s poems ‘I/我 as a Human: a Cross-Cultural Poem’ and ‘Directory of Destinies: a Wuxing Poem’
V.A. Bettencourt
V. A. Bettencourt’s poems ‘Waltz With a Whale Shark’ and ‘Scar’
V. Bray
V. Bray’s poems ‘Her Door’ and ‘A New Understanding’
Toti O’Brien
Toti O’Brien’s poems ‘Solomon’ and ‘Equals’
Stephen Finucane
Stephen Finucane’s poem ‘Late Night on Dorset Street’
Shalom Galve Aranas
Shalom Galve Aranas’s poems ‘Desert’ and ‘Humming Daughter’
Nkrumah Bankong-Obi
Nkrumah Bankong-Obi’s poem ‘Emperor of The Vault’
Marg Roberts
Marg Roberts’s poem ‘Our inheritance’
Laurinda Lind
Laurinda Lind’s poems ‘A Lake, Black’, ‘Sub Voce’ and ‘When the Tribal Drummers Join the Symphony’
Daisy Bassen
Daisy Bassen’s poem ‘Scale’
Carol Alena Aronoff
Carol Alena Aronoff’s poem ‘Lunation’
Alison Stone
Alison Stone’s poem ‘Diana Explains about Actaeon’
John Hicks
John Hicks’s poems ‘Getting Close to God’, ‘Soldier’s Prayer’, and ‘Trust Rust’
Vinita Agrawal
Vinita Agrawal’s poem ‘Muvuca’
Sharon Wright Mitchell
Sharon Wright Mitchell’s poems ‘Willow Witching’ and ‘When Glaciers Move’
Sarah Carleton
Sarah Carleton’s poems ‘Woo!’ and ‘Grass, Pavilion’
Richard L. Matta
Richard L. Matta’s poems ‘Bird of Paradise’, ‘Karma’, and ‘Dementia’
George Freek
George Freek’s poem ‘An Apology (After Li Shangyin)’
Jackie Chou
Jackie Chou’s poem ‘Faith’
David B. Prather
David B. Prather’s poems ‘Provenance’ and ‘Journal Entry: Those Who Stay Behind’
David Perez
David Perez’s poems ‘Someone’s always watching’, ‘She told me I would live forever’, and ‘The Year of the Leech’
Ann Malaspina
Ann Malaspina’s poem ‘Disbelievers on Holy Night’
Kate Meyer-Currey
Kate Meyer-Currey’s poem ‘Foreign Tongue’
Mary Anna Scenga Kruch
Mary Anna Scenga Kruch’s poems ‘At the Horizon’ and ‘What I Could Not Say’
Martin Willitts Jr.
Martin Willitts Jr.’s poem ‘This Journey Always Begins’
Leila Tualla
Leila Tualla’s poem ‘I sometimes think of my identity in diaspora’
Joseph A. Farina
Joseph A. Farina’s poem ‘mediterranean dreams’
Deborah DeNicola
Deborah DeNicola’s poem ‘The Secret Discipline’
Bojana Stojcic
Bojana Stojcic’s poems Baby-Stepping Toward’ and ‘Haibun for a Rainy Day’
Anne Claros
Anne Claros’s poems ‘Sea-deaf’ and ‘The North Doesn’t Want Me’
Alice Sanford
Alice Sanford’s poem ‘Making Do in Summer’
Jeanette Willert
Jeanette Willert’s poems ‘Inside, for a cup of Darjeeling’, ‘The Medusa Factor’ and ‘Old friend’
Jeff Santosuosso
Jeff Santosuosso’s poem ‘Interlude’
Steve Fay
Steve Fay’s poem ‘Li Po in Hancock County’
Lynn Tait
Lynn Tait’s poem ‘Friends’
Linda Scheller
Linda Scheller’s poems ‘Winter Solstice: Niles Canyon’ and ‘For Sylvia’
James Swansbrough
James Swansbrough’s poem ‘I’m Fine’
Gail Tyson
Gail Tyson’s poem ‘Word from Far Away’
Diane Kendig
Diane Kendig’s poem ‘Spoken at the Grave of My Friend Linda’
Ann Christine Tabaka
Ann Christine Tabaka’s poems ‘Best Friends Interrupted’ and Distant Friendships’
Alwyn Marriage
Alwyn Marriage’s poem ‘Island Gifts’
Wendy Brown-Baez
Wendy Brown-Baez’s poem ‘Sometimes Winter’
Vivian Wagner
Vivian Wagner’s poems ‘Wintering Over’ and ‘Morning, Miramar Beach’
Robert Fleming
Robert Fleming’s poem ‘Winter Haikai’
Rhonda Melanson
Rhonda Melanson’s poem ‘Snow Tread Hearts’
Philip Venzke
Philip Venzke’s poem ‘The Shortcut’
Natalie Schriefer
Natalie Schriefer’s poem ‘Storm’
Nadine Ellsworth-Moran
Nadine Ellsworth-Moran’s poem ‘Snow Cloth’
Leanne Boschman
Leanne Boschman’s poem ‘Highway 16, After Buying Supplies’
Josephine LoRe
Josephine LoRe’s poems ‘winter reverie’, ‘nighttime deer’, and ‘you are a winter garden’
Jan Chronister
Jan Chronister’s poems ‘Estoffe’, ‘Things to Do on New Year’s Day’, and ‘January Morning’
Hibah Shabkhez
Hibah Shabkhez’s poem ‘Due North’
Elizabeth Harmatys Park
Elizabeth Harmatys’s poem ‘Seventh grade and Seventy’
Diane Funston
Diane Funston’s poems ‘What Happened to Winter?’ and ‘No True Silence’
Catherine L. Schweig
Catherine L. Schweig’s poems ‘Instinctual Flight’, ‘Icy Foreshadowing’, and ‘The Tug’
Daniel E. Pritchard
Daniel E. Pritchard’s poem ‘Sleet Renga’
Carl Scharwath
Carl Scharwath’s poem ‘Snowfall’
Cameron Morse
Cameron Morse’s poem ‘Like Clockwork’
Andrew P. Dillon
Andrew P. Dillon’s poem ‘In Memoriam’
Wendy Garnier
Wendy Garnier’s poem ‘Flight of Feathers’
Susan Bloch-Welliver
Susan Bloch-Welliver’s poem ‘Levitate’
Phil Wood
Phil Wood’s poem ‘Garden’
Daniel Schulz
Daniel Schulz’s poem ‘Burden’
Center Stage
Center Stage celebrates the work of writer and wilderness advocate David Crews
Ajanta Paul
Ajanta Paul’s poem ‘Night’
Rose Mary Boehm
Rose Mary Boehm’s poem ‘Woman of the Mist’
Kelly Kaur
Kelly Kaur’s poem ‘Hungry Ghosts’
Mateo Perez Lara
Mateo Perez Lara’s poem ‘Ricochet Skulls’
Rachel Larensen
Rachel Larensen’s poem ‘Magnificent Circus’
Marjorie Jensen
Marjorie Jensen’s poems ‘Draw me a violet orchid’ and ‘Muse-Editor; Body-Reader’
Lois Hambleton
Lois Hambleton’s poem ‘Marginalised’
Jude Brigley
Jude Brigley’s poems ‘The girl in class 2C’ and ‘Jocundus’
Gerry Stewart
Gerry Stewart’s poem ‘Language Learning’
Evelyn F. Katz
Evelyn F. Katz’s poem ‘Remote Learning’
Eric Odynocki
Eric Odynocki’s poems ‘At a Loss’, ‘Anagrams’, and ‘Legends’
Dave Medd
Dave Medd’s poem ‘Teacher Teacher’
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)’
