The Things of This World by Michael Blanchard More than one has said it: that love is of this world only the world of a willow reaching for a river as the river goes its way and of a […]

A First Visit to the Uffizi by Patrick T. Reardon Looking for Theopista who is called a saint, painted by Lippi who is called by Browning a brothel-john in monk’s clothing and, in the poem, a […]

The Orchardist's Lament by William Prindle William Prindle has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2025 Poetry Contest The Orchardist’s Lament If I spent less time in unstructured […]

Pennies from Heaven by J. R. Thelin John Thelin has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2025 Poetry Contest Pennies from Heaven Soon they will stop minting pennies. I will […]

Local’s Corner by Sharon Perkins Ackerman I know at least four Virginia poets with books published this year so it seems timely to recommend some fall reading, gifting, or perhaps simply to […]

Ephemeral Streams by Richard Stimac If the river is a metaphor for life and death, for time, and loss of time, for the rise and fall of seasons, for disastrous floods that carry hope […]

These Days by William Prindle The working title for my forthcoming poetry book is A Furious Surrendering: Poems for Navigating the Unraveling. The title poem contains these […]

Pancakes by Cynthia Gallaher Spooned out formed by force of gravity diameter to be determined, from silver dollar to as big as a frisbee. Over burning embers, prehistoric […]

Swings by Joyce Compton Brown ………………………………………….After Fragonard’s Les Hasards heureux d’escarpolette Fragonard’s lady sways among the cloud […]

Self Portrait as a Pile of Dirty Laundry by Jeff Newberry I never sort my clothes. Sorry, mom. Sure, my whites gray and colors fade, but they all go into the same load. All share the same daily sweat and […]

My Father the Mixologist by Mara Lee Grayson If you’d met him on a Greyhound bus in 1962 he’d have asked you to look out for Kerouac on every corner or find Mickey Mouse beneath a pal […]

Love Not Cheaply by Giancarlo Malchiodi Nonna tends Dad and Auntie in three room railroad flat; Bathtub in kitchen, 3′ x 5′ plywood tabletop, fridge at foot of bed, toilet in outside […]

Avocado by Christopher Dungey In the century most recently expired, pigments to suggest certain fruits and vegetables were infused into the metal of appliances, plastic […]

Framework by Susan Shea I pattern through my day first thing, I walk across the green geometry of my rug telling myself I will stay on course, breathe […]

Portrait with Amulets by Alison Hicks I wore a turquoise donkey bead on a thong around my neck— choker, bead and knot resting in the space between collarbones. Glass eye facing o […]

Shadows of their Bones by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah Yesterday, I ate a lion for free, an elephant for the asking; and a leopard for my pleasure. I ate when I was not hungry, hunger stitched me into […]

At the Concourse-End of the Sky Bridge and Can I Pay Next Month What I Owe This Month?, 2 poems by Ben Sloan At the Concourse End of the Sky Bridge Discombobulated by my inability to sleep on a plane arcing across the wind-tossed top edge of Europe, the […]

Finding Isabella by Sharon Perkins Ackerman It is two weeks past Mother’s Day, late afternoon, when I see a doe on the neighboring pasture. Light slices across the grass from its peach h […]

Space Junk by Claire Scott ……………………………………………..Collision risks are growing every year ……………………………………………..as […]

running like water by Maggie Rue Hess for Caitlin Daughtered with the dogwood’s dirge, we expect love to have seasons, ceaseless in its business of change, inconsistency its o […]