Featured Poetry

Election Spotlight: Vote for Art

Nov 07, 2022

Podcast with Martha Nichols and John Vogel

Vote for Art! Readings and commentary by TW poets, writers, and visual artists.

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Ode to Frog

Oct 04, 2021

Poetry by Athena Kildegaard

How much there is to sing of, breathless as frog at noon, a song echoing desire, our pent-up viral longing for something more than monitor.

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Crazy Quilt

Mar 30, 2021

Poetry by Madeleine Mysko

To make something from the desires both to hold and to be held.

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The Muse of Bad Poems

Mar 22, 2021

Poetry by Paula Bonnell

She says, “Just hum me a few bars” — as though you were the one in charge of this gig.

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Floating and Rising in Federal Setting Level Four

Mar 22, 2021

Poetry by Mary Jo Robinson-Jamison

Sound like flesh warms the back of our necks, fills that space between vertebrae and skull.

Featured Poetry, Music, Creative Fire | Read More

Once I Was a Lighthouse

Mar 22, 2021

Poetry by Jacqueline Schaalje

All day I bundled my strength in my lantern room and shone.

Featured Poetry, Creative Fire, Surrealism | Read More

Roads Not Changed by the Feet of Walkers

Dec 21, 2020

Poetry by Zizi Shosha

I know a lot about empty skylines and the land that has become a hollowed belly.

Featured Poetry, Translations, Politics of Place | Read More

Zinnia Becomes First Flower to Bloom on Space Station

Dec 14, 2020

Poetry by Alice Major

They’re taking things away from you, those hidden elites, those threatening other-colored others.

Featured Poetry, Science and Society, TW at Ten | Read More

Corona Archive #3: Day

Dec 14, 2020

Poetry by Sheila Black

I wonder about the half-advertent suicides. About a person who writes about a wing in the sky.

Featured Poetry, TW at Ten, Illness | Read More

Catbird

Dec 14, 2020

Poetry by Lesley Wheeler

But at least that world’s alive to rage and mourn.

Featured Poetry, TW at Ten, Nature | Read More

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