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Baring It
“Over time, the body,
when bitten enough,
can build up a tolerance . . . ”
Read the rest of “Baring It,” a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer at A Hundred Falling Veils. -
Revisiting Discarded Post-it Poetry: An Idea That Sticks
Melissa Kandel interviews sob, a poet who writes poems on crumpled post-it notes and leaves them in public spaces in Los Angeles, California.
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Pix to Words
Patrick Jennings, an avid landscape photographer based in Vancouver, Canada, brings together images and poetry on his photoblog, Pix to Words.
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haiku.blog
Web developer Ben Dwyer has published a new haiku every day since March, 2015 — more than 1,000 days. Visit his archives at haiku.blog, where his march towards 2,000 haiku is already underway.
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Kite (B)
Poet Rob Hindle delights in watching a kite: “Each morning we watched birds a mile up / drifting in the frail sky, small as balloons / let go from a fair, sunlit and miraculous.”
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Recipe for Mornings After
“Whip egg whites, expectations, preheat an oven / carefully cultivate delicate friendships with belligerent drunks.”
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Hunger
A beautiful poem about longing, by M.J. Arlett: “My hunger, an unanswerable question / as big as the sky.”
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beginnings ~
We loved the simplicity and depth of tornadoday’s poem, “beginnings”: “it hardly seems / a moment passed / before the coming home / to understand / beginnings / have no end”
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Mytholmroyd
“I half expected to see her sashaying down the aisle of the train, all shimmering platinum between plush, navy blue seats.” A misheard train conductor and a flight of fantasy, captured in a poem.
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Poem For Children: Oughtabees
A fun children’s poem about being yourself, by Rolli: “The oughtabees are circling! One’s sitting on my chin! Don’t listen to a word they say! Don’t let their poison in!”
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8 AM Wednesday by Jill Tabot
From Jill Talbot’s compelling poem, 8 AM Wednesday: “How are you? I am familiar with the question, but the answer always befuddles me.”
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LinebreakLinebreak is an established hub for powerful poetry, where a new poem has appeared — in both text and audio — every Tuesday since 2008.
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The Citron ReviewThe editors at The Citron Review, who all met in the creative writing program at Antioch University of Los Angeles, share a passion for the short form — “powerful prose that packs a punch.” They publish poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction
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“For the City and These Long Decades Spent Wandering”: A Poem
Jose Padua shares a prose poem on memory, politics, and domestic life: “And what lifts me from weariness and dread are the small things, not the grand recollections and gestures but the brief but glowing movements […].”
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Recording of “The Draft”
Listen to Robert Okaji read his haunting poem, “The Draft”: “Yesterday I walked to the sea / and looking into its deep crush / sensed something unseen washing / out, between tides and a shell-cut foot”
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