Complete List of Poems of the Moment

As poems are published in our “Poem of the Moment” section, they will be added to this list alphabetically by the last name of their author:

Susan Berlin: False Witness

Richard Berlin: A Headlong Act of Love

Ben Berman: Close to Closure  Ben’s new book Strange Borderlands is available for pre-order at Able Muse

Frank Bidart:  If See No End In Is

Sherwin Bitsui:  River   

Victoria Bosch-Murray: Traveling Mercies

Kevin Carey: Newburyport

Martha Carlson-Bradley:  Man in the Moon 

Martha Collins: [white paper #6]

Steven Cramer: from Clangings

Patty Crane: Something Flown

Abbot Cutler: The Swallow

Bernadette Darnell:  Marriage

 Maggie Deitz:  The Yellow House, 1978  

Patrick Donnelly:   Link    

Stephen Dunn:  What Goes On  

Martin Espada: The Playboy Calendar and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

Rhina P. Espaillat:   Bra  

Nikky Finney:  The Afterbirth, 1931  

Erica Funkhouser: Impossible

Cynthia Read Gardner: Vitiligo

Marie Gauthier: Motherless

Regie Gibson: southeast ridge

Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Public School No.18, Paterson, New Jersey

Michelle Gillett:   Love Poem 137  

Kevin Goodan:  (to crave what llight does crave)

Hannah Fries:  Epithalamion

Joy Harjo:    A Map to the Next World  

Charles Harper: Reaching

Richard Hoffman: Pantoum: But You Are Gone

Joan Houlihan:   And a Cloth Bled High on a Stick  

Barbara Helfgott Hyett: In the Ring of Twenty Signs

Major Jackson:  How to Listen  

Jennifer Jean:  Passing Time  

Danielle Jones-Pruett:   Chiaroscuro  

Claire Keyes:  Matinee   

Lawrence Kessenich: Quiz Tomorrow

Alice Kociemba: Paper Route

Yusef Komunyakaa: Requiem

Jeffrey Levine: Working With the Lepers

Paul Marion:  South Common Haiku Set 

Jill McDonough: Accident, Mass. Ave.

Wesley McNair:   Hymn to the Comb-Over  

Fred Marchant: Night Heron Maybe   

Gary Metras: Shards of River

Sharon Olds: I Could Not Tell

January O’Neil: Bathing My Mother

Dzvinia Orlowsky: Illegible Postcards

Carla Panciera:   Plum Island and Back  

Dawn Paul:  Black Bear Hunt

Robert Pinsky:  Samurai Song

Emily Pulfer-Terino: Tracks

Mary Ellen Redmond: Quiz Tomorrow

Paul Richmond: The Lost Cafe

Laurie Robertson-Lorant: These Days

Mark Schorr:from Recovery

Lloyd Schwartz:  A True Poem 

Rene Schwiesow: Shades

J.D. Scrimgeour: For Langston

Barry Sternlieb: The Salvation of Humor

David Surette:  Famine

Arthur Sze:  Comet Hyakutake

Cammy Thomas: Ring

Daniel Tobin:  The Turnpike 

Lisken Van Pelt Dus: In Both Hands

Mark Wagner:  Prologue

Afaa Michael Weaver:   My Father’s Geography

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