In Search of Sense
June 9th, 2022 | by Jamie Asaye FitzGerald
I kiss my children, not once, but as many times as I can before they pull away
Browsing the "Poetry" Category
Postpartum depression during a pandemic
February 15th, 2022 | by Amy Mattes
The house is living and breathing windows lifting curtains let old air out. An air between seasons. Her body is living and breathing open organs stretching in the
Promises
February 8th, 2022 | by Leah Ongiri
We open the door in the morning It is dark and rainy like all morningsThe smell of wet earth rises like
History Lesson
October 12th, 2021 | by Margaret Elysia Garcia
(The president said Lat-tee-nex aren’t getting vaccinated because we fear documentation and deportation. Demoralization. Department chair: don’t they realize they’re
Breathing Lessons
September 8th, 2021 | by Katie Hoogendam
My mother died of a lung disease,one that stalked her all my life. In kindergarten, I was pulled from class, taken to the hospital,
Alva Kims from Cameroon Asks a Question
May 27th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Lovely daughter for adoption, says the caption
Praise to Bedtime During a Pandemic
March 16th, 2021 | by Ginny Wiehardt
Ode to lavender lotion, to the Alice in Wonderland recordedforty years ago, to my son’s drooping eyelids, my computer’s backlit keys, my tapping fingers tempted
Why he is not my little boy
March 9th, 2021 | by Wandajune Bishop-Towle
Too tall. Born too late, too old. His eyes—lakes of day not brown like mine. He sings too high too loud in a
Advent 2020
December 21st, 2020 | by Ezra Stone
ONE: A wave of grief for everything that came before Today, the clouds are like ribs, like my ribs close
Ginny Wiehardt on KNIFE SKILLS
October 23rd, 2020 | by Ginny Wiehardt
‘Knife Skills’(After a BBC documentary on postpartum OCD) They gleamed at her from kitchen drawers, reflecting the self she feared,