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Contemporary Family Poems

What Did I Love About Being Hungry by Fran Schumer

Fran Schumer’s poetry, fiction, and articles have appeared in various sections of The New York Times; also, Vogue, The Nation, The North American Review, and

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Contemporary Family Poems

Can You Eat the Ashes? by Ericka Clay

Ericka Clay is a published novelist and poet. As a former atheist turned believer, she seeks to write raw, real, relatable books that have

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Contemporary Family Poems Poems about Life Poems about Mom

How Ridiculous That I Am by Kim Hooper

Kim Hooper is the author of six novels, including People Who Knew Me, which was adapted into an episodic podcast from BBC Sounds.

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Contemporary Family Poems

The Boy Left In The Attic by Kushal Poddar

Kushal Poddar is the of ‘Postmarked Quarantine’ has eight books to his credit. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of ‘Words Surfacing’. His works

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NOVEMBER (A SONNET) by William Cullen Bryant

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and influential editor. Born in Massachusetts,

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Family Poems

Winter Kitchen by Jenny Dunbar

Quince, the golden peach

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Berry Picking by Marne Wilson

Marne Wilson lives in Parkersburg, West Virginia. She is the author of two chapbooks: The Bovine Daycare Center (Finishing Line, 2015) and As Lovers Always Do (forthcoming from Etchings Press).

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The house in Leitrim by DS Maolalai

The House in Leitrim by DS Maolalai the wet clay peeled with sucking sounds straight from the spade. I was eight. my father dug, wanting to show that he could bend the world to city hands. the house had been a long time unoccupied before we took it; trees grew in the kitchen and the […]

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Trains by George Moore

George Moore’s collections include Saint Agnes Outside the Walls (FurureCycle 2016) andChildren’s Drawings of the Universe (Salmon Poetry 2015). Poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Arc,

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Family Poems Poems about Mom

Kitchen Companions by Joan Kantor

Joan Kantor is the author of five poetry collections. She won First Place for poetry in The 2015 Writers Digest Self Published Book Awards for Fading Into Focus

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Family Poems Religious Poems

Sacrifice by Gale Acuff

Sacrifice by Gale Acuff Miss Hooker’s my Sunday School teacher and she says that if you kill yourself you go to Hell hands down, there’s no hope for Heaven because suicide–it’s called suicide –is sin and almost the worst one there is, the worst one being I forget, maybe not believing there’s a God at […]

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Skeleton by Katie Booms

Katie Booms is a writer, visual artist, and advocate for community-building. She welcomes collaboration of all kinds and can be found on Twitter as @ka_booms. She earned her MFA at the University of Wyoming

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Mia Mango by Brandon Ward

Brandon Ward is from Northern California.

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I Left the Radio On by Ann Yu Huang

Ann Yu Huang was born in Shanghai, China and moved to Mexico when she was a teen. She graduated from Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York cum laude and has co-founded the home-healthcare brand Nature Bright Company.

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Family Poems Moon Poem

Jazz Water by John Guchemand

Breaking forth, breakneck pace
Triangle tongue flag unfurls, reaches
out humming hands,

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