Acorn Street, Boston March 2023
Acorn Street, Boston March 2023
“A BLINK & NOD POETRY WORKSHOP”
Gordon W. Mennenga
“Is rhyming bad? does a poem about trees and water help sell it?/Why are so many bad poems published?” MORE
“PASSWORDS OF A DYING MAN”
Celia Chandler
“Oh, how we celebrated the successful end of treatment, Jack’s 65th birthday, and my 50th on that October …” MORE
“THE MIGHTY LIGHT”
Rachel Zeile
“Father’s church is in a 20 x 40-ft. shed behind our house. It has a corrugated tin roof and metal siding that is painted blue.” MORE
“COTTONWOOD WARD,
PONTIAC STATE HOSPITAL”
Michelle Morouse
“They were little arsonists all, aged five to eleven, deemed too dangerous for foster care.” MORE
“A NOR’EASTER DURING COVID”
Roberta Cooks
“In the face of such raw
Thunderous power
Time now to sit,
Press nose to glass …” MORE
“CRANE IN BLACK AND WHITE”
David Mathews
“’I used to give kiddies rides in the bucket … I wanted them to feel the capacity of the human spirit to rise from the venal and …’” MORE
FROM THE ARCHIVES
“NEPTUNE SOCIETY”
Kim Trevathan
“You started jumping off quarry ledges a few weeks after the funeral. You liked the look of the girls …” MORE
“GIRL WAITING IN LINE FOR A FILM”
Frankie Drayus
“Luminous. That’s what I thought when I looked at her skin—she glowed like the moon when the sky is …” MORE
POETRY OPEN WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN APRIL!
CONTEST ARCHIVES
Cover photo: Tiffany Chan/Unsplash
Cover photo:
Tiffany Chan/Unsplash