Three Poems by Dennis Held
Click button above to hear Dennis Held read this poem, or click here to download poem in .mp3 format. Road Fire They started out as automobiles but once they turned into Dad’s work cars they...
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A natural, cultural, and personal history of the slash pine in South Florida. inus elliottii. Slash pine. A large, heavily branched, deep-rooted conifer growing up to 100 feet tall, its bark...
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Father. Forgive them. For they know not what they do. All I know is a door into the dark. – Seamus Heaney y father liked the darkness. He’d often squint at us to turn down the lights, turn...
View ArticleLetter to America by Teddy Macker
To the End i say praise praise the sound of this rain i say lament grieve shake collapse throw up your hands but praise praise this hard passing rain the prosperous near sounds of dripping-from-eaves...
View ArticleThe Ghost Town Collectives
You know Liam, sympathize with his loss. Perhaps you lost someone, too. fright. That’s what you’re supposed to call a group of ghosts. Not a herd. Not a flock. Not some sort of harmless congregation...
View ArticleCicada
Whatever was in me was escaping, and in that moment I felt very close to the things of the world. few weeks after M— left, my son started scaling the sycamore trees that lined the property in search...
View ArticleNot For Luck, Poems by Derek Sheffield
Wheelbarrow Books | 2021 | 94 pages erek Sheffield’s Not For Luck, winner of the Wheelbarrow Books Prize, is the poet’s second book. Sheffield is a poet of the American West, but he may have even...
View ArticleTwo Poems by Craig van Rooyen
North It’s still February, too early to be jonesing for the north, but there’s one goose without a V this morning, voice breaking like a 12-year-old boy’s, his awkward neck emo-bobbing to an earnest...
View ArticleThe Mara Doesn’t Forget: An Excerpt
An asylum seeker I spoke with, who had fled Honduras, told me that the mara (the gang) has a motto—The mara doesn’t forget. In recent years, governments across the world, led by the United States,...
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View ArticleOur Job Is to Sing: An Interview with David Baker
Our job is to sing. That’s what poetry does. That’s why we have it. Introduction David Baker’s most recent book Whale Fall (W.W. Norton, 2022) features the long eponymous poems that led me to this...
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On the elusive Florida gray fox and the equally elusive tween daughter. he thing about seeing a fox is that a fox doesn’t want to be seen. It took me a long time to see a fox in my asphalt-frosted...
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