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.
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’
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’
