Alva Kims from Cameroon Asks a Question
May 27th, 2021 | by Cheryl Klein
Lovely daughter for adoption, says the caption
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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,
Pandemic Poetry: Leonore Wilson on ‘Palm Sunday’
September 21st, 2020 | by Leonore Wilson
No railing of the old pier to hold, no church with its elaborate white arch to enter, the shops are
Pandemic poetry: Carla Sameth on pacing and practicing the trumpet
September 17th, 2020 | by Carla Rachel Sameth
I read the warning label: Watch out for signs of Virus Fatigue like drinking alone early in the day and cutting everything up in your house to make masks though you’ll never leave the house again
PANDEMIC POETRY: Dana Salvador’s “Two-week Quarantine”
September 15th, 2020 | by Dana Salvador
We took our temperatures and watched the white petals shake themselves free,
Your Mother Is Brave
July 23rd, 2020 | by Edvige Giunta
At seventeen I defied the fascist youth on the streets of Catania, brandishing a piece of paper. I left home, country, language, family.
Bonding and Unbonding: Poems
October 29th, 2019 | by Marion Deutsche Cohen
“What is it about babies?” #Poems