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A.VirelaiA Palimpsest of the Female Gaze
A. G.VanoverMania
A. N.Morris-RussellScream
A.R.KoehlerOff to bed
AaliyahEl-AminSwan’s Farewell Dance
AbbyKaneI Wish I Lived in the Apartment Upstairs
AbigailKestenA Poem About Light and Heat
AdysonReiszBible Study
AlissaSammarcoRoad to the city on the lake
AllenBlaironce wanted To Be an astronomer
AloraJonesTo the worn out 16-year-old with bloodshot eyes working at McDonalds:
AlveraPermanCicada Roar II
AmandaCorbinJune 25: IV. The Emperor
AmandaJattauntitled
AmyFiggsAltered
AmyLe AnnRichardsonTo Love a Complicated Place
AndreaLawlerHunger
AniHow Can I Write A Poem From The Hospital Room
AnnHaneyPompeii
AnnaKatOne need not be a hollow
AntheiaAntheiaAppalachian Elegy (The Flood)
ArwenThe Poem
AshSanctuary
AshSauCan’t
atmospheriquespill your guts (tepid edition)
AubreyJust Another Daughter
AustenReilleyThe Male Loneliness Epidemic (a modern myth)
AustinRathboneI’ve Been Busy and I No Longer Know How to Write
AutumnCook8:00 PM
B.ElizabethBeckSolace in Purgatory Season
BeatriceUnderwood-SweetCousins
beckGaia fears no flame
BernardDevilleCorvus, By Any Other Name
BethanyRobinsonIf I can
BillBrymerRest for the Weary
BillVerbleA Basket Poem
BingKilljoy
BrentMeta Pigeons
BrianMcCartyLice: A Love Story
BronsonO’ QuinnOrder of Operations
BrookeRussellSister
BrotherBuckMarkowitzREMEMBER THE FUTURE
BudRGhost Dreams
C. A.GradyRebel Until It Becomes Another Latte Flavor
CaraBlairSolstice
CarolWhen Abusers Die
carolejohnstonsky spinning
CarrieElam SpillmanWilted flowers
carterskaggsmichelangelo and his david
ccos32Creative Spaces
CharlesWilliamA Note to M
ChelsieKreitzmanVenomous Barbs
ChristinaJoyher – story (I)
ChristinaMcCleanhanWith Clasped Hands
ChristinaMyersYou Are
ChristopherMillerS – – –
ChristopherMattinglyThe Rising
ChristopherMcCurryThe Coach’s Wife
ClaudiaLoveMairyou+me (for d)
ColemanDavisKomorebi
ColetteCrownBody Fragility
ConundrumConundrumComputer Love
CourtneyMusic-JohnsonWant Not, Have Not
CrozzyNo new worries
D.DietzAlmost a cliche
DanaWangsgardMercy
DangerfieldYellaLead Off or Hughie Jennings
DaniJune 06: For Her
DanielleFlemingJune 18: Upper Brush Creek
DanielleValenilla ∞Unmasking Mona Lisa
DarleneRoseDeMariaConfidence Manifesto
DavidMadillTimeline of Events
Deanna35 Years Married
DeatReading until you’re the villain
DebbieCooperJune 08: It’s raining in Chicago
DebraGlennonce lovely
DennisPrestonPious Beauty
DianaWorthingtonBeat the Heat
E. E.PackardWoman Riding West
EDLTraces of you
ElaineOlundShe Pulls Me In, Naked
ElizabethDrewKneibertSkinny Soliloquy
EllenAustin-LiThe First Amendment
EmilyBrownAlternative Universe
EricMorrisA Dead Body or Just Sleeping?
EricWillisIn the Immediate Aftermath
EricScottSutherlandThe Moss Remembers
ErinLeighMathewsConvincing Change to Be My Girlfriend
EvelynPaigeA Dark Night of the Soul
Evyn WeaverWeaverBack, back, and back (again)
FannyH.SalmonPlatonic fields
FolioFolio6/3/25- Hero Peaceful
FrancescaAnnoniIce Age, Fire Age, Whatnot
GabyBedettiEverything Often Feels Like an Emergency in Our World
GeoffWhiteAnd So, Good Night
GoldieMood Tone 22 (or a yawning that dares defy dead Chekhov’s gun)
graybrodersonJune 02: pride on HRT
GregFriedmanYou took the vow of poverty
GwynethStewartWhen The World Is Falling Apart
H. E.LarchProof
H.A.Lady of the Lake
H.PShawEephus
HaleyBiddleWhat Kind Of Woman
Hannahhungry. for what?
HatWounds
hbelamlucifer
HillaryTucker
HjMerimeeThorned Rose
HopeWilderlove like home
HunterNelsonIdentity Politics
huntere.westenhoferI wonder what it means to be forgotten
ingeA Louisville Poem
J.MoApple Bottom Jeans Are A Misnomer
J.E.BarrStockholm Syndrome
j.ltaylorwhere the earth is shallow
JasmineAllencats and pancakes
JasmineRobinsonIn Light of the Current Chaos
JayMcCoyMrs. Clayton, or Alan Turing’s Housekeeper
JazmineOpdyckeOn the Back of a Postcard
JazzyThirty-Five Years Ago
JenniferBarricklowExpanding universe
JerielleOn a Passerby at the Art show
JerryHicksThe Day’s Routine
JessRoatTurtle
JessicaStumpLight as Memories
JessicaFarquharJune 13: SLIPPERY SLOPE
JessicaSwafford6/30/25
JimLallyThe Afterlife
JoeAnthonySwallowing
JohnW.McCauleyStewards of the Land
JohnVanceI THINK THE UNIVERSE, Part ? of ??
JonelSalleeHer Hands
JordanQuinnMore than Zero
JosephAllenNicholsConvergence
JosieAngelVampire
jstpoetryThe Grey Descent
KKaimilaniJune 02: The Elder Generation
K.NicoleWilsonVowel Movement
kareeatzpoemzzblue draft poem
KarenGeorgeLast night I slept on the floor of the sea
KatGillespiePenultimate
KatelynDonley-WeldonA Typical Father’s Day
KaterinaStoykovaDispatch from the Tiny Western Town KS is Visiting
KatherinePaisleyCommon Luxury
KathyRueveThe Circus
KatieHassallStruggle Bus
KatieHughbankstime capsule
KatrinaRolfsenThe World’s a Bad Dream, but my Mother’s cutting Zucchini in the Kitchen
kaylynkaylyn12/19
KeezThe Cake, The Circus, The Cut
KelProctorOdysseus Did Not Forget Telemachus I.
KellyWaterburyA Venturesome Day
KendallBrookeVows
KendraKisermary, wendell and ansel
KerfootThe thief of joy
KevinNanceTo My Parents
KiitanAdedejiCome Be Saved
KimKayne ShaverHappy Hour, 1963
kjMay I have this dance?
KrisGillisChampion of the Playground
KristiMaxwellOne’s Mark
KristinSixuntitled
KristinaErnyhappy
L.CoyneFrankenstein
l.jōnzarmoured
L.Sipe(She said) “I’ll be right back. I promise.”
LauraFoleyTrash Collection in Heaven
LaurenceWhitepace
LavThe universe gives us signs when we ignore our own discernment
LavagurlLavagurlTreasure Map
LaverneZabielskiThe Hardest Part About Being Mom
LeahTenneywink
LeahTolleDeath
LeeChottinerPaper Family
LennartLundhFor the Asking and Giving
LennieHayChautauqua’s Secrets
LeslieDavisEarly Harvest Moon, Summer 2025
LeslieWorkmanJune 03: Upon Watching the Kids
LHMartinWHEN I DIE
LibbyFalk JonesNo Goodbyes
LilAndreDon’t Worry
LillianBramblecold planer
LindaAngeloOne More Thing
LindaBryantBeauty is More Than Flowering
LindaFreudenbergerDoes the body sense time running out?
LindaMegFrithAn Act of Mercy
LisJune 06: Untitled
LisaJensenTrading Comfort
LittleBirdA break from the muse
LizPratherAll These Other Tellings
LoriTaylorPossibility Closed for Business
LorieConleyStormy Evening
LouiseTallenSummer of ‘07
LucyOquayeThoughts from the Backyard
LydiaPLightless Nights
M LKinneyLittle Treasures
MaddieColemanSevere Thunderstorm Watch
maddiemitchellthe days as they catch up with me
MadisonMillerArmageddon Therapy in 3 Parts
MaggieHeltzelJune 03: Sweet Heat
MairaFaisalSpinning a Yarn
MakiaAdkinsJune 02: Where Is Happiness?
mannygrimaldiWeatherhead & Wormwood
MariannePeelSaltana the Singer in Porto, Portugal
MarianneTEFFTJune 30: Lalibela
MarieSloneThe Whippoorwill Calls
MartaElam DortonJune 01: 1
MaryAllenA Clutch of Calico
MaryPottsHer
McKennaCarterbeautiful, hungry, forever
meadowdawnapb
MeepowMeepowLeaving Arkansas
MeganSlusarewiczThe Mild Night I Died
MelissaHeltonCraniotomy
MelpOur lives, Dreams
MeredithMcCurryLove is Blind
michaelolsonJune 27: A Visit to Spring Grove Cemetery
MichaylaGatsosNew Vine, Old Vine
MicheleLeNoirJune Forecasts
MikeWilsonOur Age
MistySkaggsThe Bus and the Blue Ford
MJHatfieldThe Green Man
MorganBlack2002
MorganCaudillvatica
MrsLadybugJune
mtpoetAfter so much rain
MyaSophiaA Prayer for the Madleen
N. DBloom
NancyGourdePretty Consignment Lady
NancyJentschOpposite Directions
NatashaLeeAsterisk
NETTIEFARRISWHY DOES TAYLOR SWIFT SUDDENLY APPEAR SO FREQUENTLY IN MY FACEBOOK FEED?
NoelCagneyTurtle Crossing
P.C.CimexSaint Virginia
PamCampbellAmerican Sentence LXIV
PamDWait
PatOwenOn the Opinion of Others
PatrickJohnsonEstate Sale
PatrickMilesplenty of fish
PatrickWaldenNatural Disasters with Hands
PaulettaHanselPost-Apocalyptic Postcard to My Parents
PBSartista day dreaming day
Quackstarsame same different
R.HoustonTo be a woman in this world
RaeGrevePostcard from Lyon
RenaNuttProof of Need
RenéeRigdonGrief is not a wave, but nearly every other thing is.
RiverJump, June
RobertaSchultzI Hide in the Wide Open
RosemarieWurth-GriceHeart Attack
S.MurreyThe Vigil
S.L.Bradleywhen thoughts take a turn
SallyEslinger.Things Missing Somewhere in This House
SamArthursSouls for Blackened Lungs
SamShowalterBig Man
SamanthaI Hope You Think About Me
SamanthaRatcliffeTo Be Gentle in the Love of Dominion
SamarJadeInheritance II
SamuelCollins HicksThrowing a Fit
SanidaPalavraThe Nature of Enough
SarahNealwhat scared her
SarahStoltzfus AllenShe Doesn’t Know the Difference Between Sweet and Bitter Almonds
SarahJosephinePenningtonJune 01: From Article III of the By-Laws of the Woman Suffrage Association of Louisville
Sassieuntitled
SavNoëlMY HEART
ScottWilsonAn afternoon wedding party
SeanCorbinSupper
ShaunTurnerPersephone at Cracker Barrel
SheryZimmermannThe Zoo
SJSorrellJune 03: Daughters of the Revolution
SomniaPerform
SonyaPavonavaledictory
SophieWatsonTo Touch My Own Heart
SpitFire1111MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
stefanihellerNobody Is Killing Me
SueLeathersElegy
SueNeufarth HowardWild
SunnyIf I could just try
SusannaSpearmanBaptist Health, South Tower, Room 448 (hospice)
SusieSlusherShillito Park
SylviaAhrensJust One More 30 Doll Christmas
SylviaPurviscompassion
T.C.Phillipsstraw
TabithaDialWe Leave for Newark
TacoThe Reason for 20%
TaniaHorneColloquialism
TaunjaThomsonThe Bad Year
TerryGabardinegood job
ThrowerPlaying Zombies on Television: My Brief Hollywood Career Part 7: On Meeting the Great Character Actor and Maybe Having Alogia
TinaParkerC Block Solitary
TomHunleyMy First Poem
ToniMenkI Miss the Pandemic
vanesavanesaJune 05: my costa rica
victoriacruz-falkYou Told Me to Do Something, So
VictoriaGrossThe Women We Blame I
VirginiaLeeAlcottHellebores in Winter
W.B.LaslieNOLA
WackeyCathyAnacoluthon on 2 Corinthians 11:14
WayneWillisVoodoo Doll
wendyjettMalevolent
WillAguilar-GeeslinJune 07: He Kindly Stopped For Me
WinterDawnBurnsScotch Pine and Pogonip After Cockrow
YersiniaPscavolta
Z.Z.Van TappenIn the Other Room