2009Poetry

Poetry

Opal Palmer Adisa • Jaracatia

Robert Allen, Jr • Immaculate Conception

JP Anderson • Triolet on Drinking

Paula Brancato • LA Rooftop

Earl S Braggs • Why We All Went to War

Kevin Cantwell • After the Mexican War

Billy Collins • Divorce

Erica Dawson • For Astrophil

Cornelius Eady • Thief

Cheri Paris Edwards • not another sad black girl song

Anna Evans • At Memphis Library

Ted Gilley • Pinocchio

Elton Glaser • Advance Requiem for a Lovely Couple

Midge Goldberg • At the Inn

Michael S Harper • Maroons

Nellie Hill • Rhododendron

Jackelyn Hoy • Mating Rituals

Anna James • Seeing Right Through

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers • Lowercase Prayer

Allison Joseph • At First Glance

Laurie Junkins • Small Naked Thing

Heather Kamins • Regressions

William Keener • Black Feather, White Bones

Alan King • Cipher

Willie James King • Without Weeping

Sandra Kohler • Bookends

Ellen LaFlèche • Night Fishing

Kathleen Latham • On Running Into an Ex-Love

Chloë Joan López • The Night Citadel

devorah major • for makmoud of gaza

Eileen Malone • A Jellyfish Question

Joy Maulitz • To Survive as a Siamese Twin

Julianna McCarthy • Photograph, 1900

Kevin McKelvey • Siipiiwi

Amy Miller • Boy With a Lost Shoe

Kitty Nard • The Purification of Space for Jessica

Kathe L Palka • The Miracle of the Wine

Ron Pearson • Rhapsody in People

Iain Haley Pollock • The Diaspora Remembers Guantánamo

JoAnne Preiser • Autumn Lament

Inès Pujos • Night’s Song

Ed Sams • Your Horoscope

Evie Shockley • watercolor in the hands of an artist

giovanni singleton • el corázon

Mbembe Milton Smith • Survival Poem

Mbembe Milton Smith • The Diving Aniamals

Bianca Spriggs • Proposition

Jeanine Stevens • I Observe the Color Orange

Janine Surmick • Kaleidoscope

Joyce Sutphen • As Time Always Does

Truth Thomas • Marley: Wailing for Peace

Tana Jean Welch • The Mediterranean Garden