Award winning poet, Author of 18 books, including 7 volumes of poetry, recipient of the New York State Senator’s award for poetry, Michael D. Brown currently teaches English
Poems about Poetry
The Writing of People Who Haven’t Died by Bee Walsh
The Writing of People Who Haven’t Died by Bee Walsh You were at the bottom of my first coffee today. Like yesterday, when you were under the last towel that I pulled up from the basket. At the ends of things, you are. Before you were gone, the curtains moved. They put all the familiar…
21st Century Words by Georgia S. KochVicolo
21st Century Words by Georgia S. KochVicolo Walking around naked Walking around blind Blind to danger Blind to reason Reason to wander Reason to question Question the people Question the times Times are coming Times are passing Passing through life Passing through woods Woods of triumph Woods of greatness Greatness of soul Greatness of creation Creation…
A Harry Nilsson Poem by Raymond Stiefvater
A Harry Nilsson Poem by Raymond Stiefvater Back then I saw Harry as a comet that you knew just had to burn out. Nothing — not anything or anyone — lasts forever, least of all flying rocks through space or earthbound troubadours.
just words by Jo-Anne Carlson
Jo-Anne Carlson is a lover of art in all its forms. She started exploring her world through writing, painting and singing from an early age, fascinated
Sausalito by Thomas Boyd
She Lounges Hungrily by Sy Roth
inamorata of the deep
frozen into their thousand-year dreams,
feed wryly upon one another.
Untitled by Austin Bagwell
Untitled by Austin Bagwell All I want is to lose myself, to drown in the ink. If life could be still long enough, if I could find the right cliff, my words would flow forth like a war cry, like a kiss. ### Austin Bagwell, 21, is from Amarillo, Texas. His work has appeared in…
Dead Authors by Blazhia Parker
by Blazhia Parker I wish we could talk All I’m left with is mystery and interpretation What if I’ve gotten it all wrong? Maybe I’ve mutilated Or overly debated By defending your words, Words that I’ve never actually heard uttered from your mouth
Heterophemize by Kevin Brown
Heterophemize by Kevin Brown Heterophemize v. — to say something different from what you mean to say You are my noun, I set out to say, my person, place, and thing, but I verbed instead, stammered out adjective after adjective, but spoke so adverbly you exclamated. I thought we were gerunding well, but you saw…