Streetlight Magazine | Sharon Ackerman | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/sharonackerman/activity/ Activity feed for Sharon Ackerman. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:09:40 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 c3ce26ef14f5e8c1eb8e4038df4bc57f Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41737 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:00:55 -0400 Same River, Different Day by Patrick Meeds Let me tell you uncomfortable I am with silence. I am handcuffed to a joke I can’t tell. Two crows are where my lungs should be. My exhales are t […]

]]> 16dc197b8f62446ceddbc69c5d784a0e Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41555 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:00:28 -0400 Reckless Abandon by Dudley Stone …………………………………………………….A poem is never finished, only […]

]]> 32ac034eb89d22351815878ec8dd5425 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41894 Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:00:31 -0400 Visitatio Divina by Sharon Perkins Ackerman It is just after 5:00 a.m. as I browse among the books that prop up my life. I say prop because books are so often a means of leaving my surroundings, […]

]]> f2f4627985f6b6e5b8a6e6db526d564a Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41518 Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:00:17 -0400 Shopping by Paul Joseph Enea My grocery store is under siege by sleepwalkers who show up in pajamas moping from shelf to shelf for a precious memory. There is no one to guide […]

]]> 25271e4578dc7429a59f123d98c6fe35 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41404 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:00:03 -0500 Women who nap by Catherine Socarras Ferrell Bed calls at midday, when the eyes drowse and honey themselves shut. Sleep curls thick as nectar. We hexagon ourselves, invert. Always a […]

]]> eeb04b1ca3c98b588ac870531c58bede Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41398 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:00:13 -0500 Dancing with a Shadow by Zihan Zang I danced with a shadow, drifting in the wind, Our forms in ev’ry city window cast. We held each other as the night slipped past, Circled and spun […]

]]> 9e3f7628d4dc69dd8726ada6ce81e598 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41326 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:00:31 -0500 Currency by Maureen Clark we imagine she was a bride the skeleton with the small skull a Greek girl…………                     ……….her head wreathed in ceramic fl […]

]]> b63960e89944ec1368462fe304c9eed0 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41313 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:00:37 -0500 Names by Esther Sadoff Cottonwood trees are producing more fluff. I am jealous of things so aptly named. The verb take can be a phrasal verb with so many […]

]]> 199af5cd36a32ff54a5396bf59cfc822 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41423 Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:00:56 -0500 Walnuts by Sharon Perkins Ackerman They’re the last to disappear, along with hickory, spicing the ground from mid-autumn through December. I stumble over carpets of the fermenting h […]

]]> 3f409c69b9422e266f006bf09ae7165e Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40796 Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:00:47 -0500 Away Games by E. H. Jacobs I inhaled the soot-sotted grime of New York’s summer, exhaled your scent: lavender and rose. Let me explain, because you had gone to Yankee S […]

]]> 3c3b5aab886720ca1ea92c27a7a07605 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40789 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:00:43 -0500 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 […]

]]> 4db9c1d1ea3a16b5255d3f6b29cd0729 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40784 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:00:37 -0500 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 […]

]]> ded6bac1a2756e5f39de6934e0db3d5b Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40835 Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:00:21 -0400 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 […]

]]> c1366f08d6c740554120a2a47ea805cd Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40832 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:00:24 -0400 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 […]

]]> 25f31f893e43aad675a23ceff6884cfc Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41251 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:00:54 -0400 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 […]

]]> 2bddc444080428f54c3e7a4279030e7d Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40428 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:00:00 -0400 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 […]

]]> 990553a5f1a30cd060c87f42ea54018d Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=41135 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:00:48 -0400 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 […]

]]> 1c914c39bf9e93949ebc6abe5487d6af Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40526 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:00:20 -0400 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 […]

]]> 145b4de4bd13ec10ab07192de60b5076 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40534 Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:00:02 -0400 Swings by Joyce Compton Brown ………………………………………….After Fragonard’s Les Hasards heureux d’escarpolette Fragonard’s lady sways among the cloud […]

]]> 041937a46182c03f24168562833119c7 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40531 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:00:51 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0e789526b85eb1c395f4d9c4dee16b62 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40415 Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:00:06 -0400 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 […]

]]> 11e131013ba0684f61f4f301e5afafbe Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40418 Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:00:49 -0400 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 […]

]]> 50094cb0cd1d75e416021b1d0bb5bf77 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40423 Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:00:00 -0400 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 […]

]]> 59158c8e069d5baa660d83576606d89a Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40409 Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:00:15 -0400 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 […]

]]> ef1e62c1d969431c99fb493995ba5dcc Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40292 Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:00:46 -0400 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 […]

]]> 331243aad55049939c7cbeee3b5b6dc5 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40100 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:00:04 -0400 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 […]

]]> b572a875751ef0edeee24ee6fa7efb3e Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40083 Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:05 -0400 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 […]

]]> e0f0ca6cd9bfebe89f2b70021f87d2e4 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=40370 Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:00:43 -0400 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 […]

]]> 0f8e75de058bbdda22bf018c7cbc9df0 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39977 Fri, 30 May 2025 12:00:33 -0400 Space Junk by Claire Scott ……………………………………………..Collision risks are growing every year ……………………………………………..as […]

]]> 67ae27180b01978b2bdf16d521775d8f Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39800 Fri, 09 May 2025 08:00:49 -0400 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 […]

]]> 7b1daf1cb82ada53a4bd790e9a0651c7 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39805 Fri, 02 May 2025 10:00:43 -0400 Ars Poetica, Forbidden Fruit by Gary D. Grossman One mile into my daily jog, New Yorker poetry podcast in my ear, hoping for insights and hardware to Sherpa me up poetic Himalayas, and Mary Karr […]

]]> e8cfd85f2ccaefd17bf769edc6e879d7 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39793 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:00:47 -0400 The Radiant Reach of Heat by Ken Holland As if to be human is to seek the warmth of another body, ……………………………………………..skin and the course of blood […]

]]> b13b227a6f38422d10bca41c17004d61 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39925 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:03 -0400 A Place to Hold Us by Sharon Perkins Ackerman I ready myself to read poetry for a group of graduate students. They’ve had the ingenuity to find an old, abandoned chapel near campus and turn it i […]

]]> c4bdc578fbde8ca44dee9f1b497de488 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39501 Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:00:16 -0400 Keeping Time and Awake in the Night, 2 poems by Patricia Hemminger Keeping Time The mayfly lives two days, a swallowtail butterfly two weeks. The last generation of monarchs born each year endure for months […]

]]> 61c0a781e7cf48a9ec6eba0dbaeea2cd Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39493 Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:06 -0500 Ignorance by Michael Penny When I encounter a word I don’t know I check the books and screens. Even after that, there remain words I cannot find the meaning of. Some a […]

]]> 94bc0f7e7f2787890f771b40b9e67e10 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39487 Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:00:01 -0500 The Composer by Anne Whitehouse …………………………for John Kander Music plays in my head, and I listen. Sounds and rhythms, echoes and vibrations. This is how I […]

]]> 7ae57a8b2a013c72b7da884b3e03c689 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39497 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:00:01 -0500 Equal Opportunity by Claire Scott I just bought an eight-pack of bony Jesuses, an Amazon special, to be sure Jesus remembers this little lamb if I run a red light or ease through a […]

]]> 2737fc8592a3df58e5b95cfd86ccb672 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39476 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:00:53 -0500 How Pain Matters by Mark Simpson Not thinking about it doesn’t make it go away. Recollection makes sense of it, invents details from the misremembered: as with open carry and its f […]

]]> 6160616fc6b2ed575015d7e6e8925bee Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39526 Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:00:15 -0500 New Year by Sharon Perkins Ackerman Autumn is officially over, leaves finally cleared, trees naked, winter sky a show of planets that begins early with Venus glazing the western sky. […]

]]> c849c338bcc92e2fe328bd42499ed7ed Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39173 Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:00:58 -0500 Stealing Japanese Poetry by Robert Harlow Stealing Japanese poetry requires great skill, almost Ninja-like stealth, especially at night when there are so many poets out viewing the […]

]]> 33e04ed90267da68e24a6f0d57bada4c Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=39427 Mon, 23 Dec 2024 13:00:52 -0500 Mehr Licht by Sharon Perkins Ackerman If I do a search for poems with the word light in the title, I get 12,600 hits. For dark, I get 6,000. This doesn’t scratch the surface of how many […]

]]> c360dac860364b0d293dab02c7769a06 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38626 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:00:47 -0500 SUCHNESS and DITCH LILIES, 2 poems by Linda Parsons SUCHNESS Unable to find a bait station, the termite guy says Call me when you’ve trimmed all this. I say It’s supposed to be this way, a cot […]

]]> 737f42d253da17d98aac18cb9cd731b7 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38632 Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:00:29 -0500 One Moment Along the Food Chain by Marsha Owens This moment demands my attention. Tiny turtles, vulnerable as polar bears, bubble up from their sandy womb, struggle towards light borrowed from the […]

]]> 3317d097dcaa9382ab363bbd748a7304 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38639 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:00:03 -0500 Cafe con Leche by Benjamin Schmitt When you add cream to your coffee there is a moment of storm beneath the surface, the possibility of a sinner planting a kiss on the gates of […]

]]> 2fd8d4c4bf5b6c4077c69dd690169f38 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38415 Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:00:41 -0400 The Investment by Jacqueline Coleman-Fried My eyes, full of my husband’s body thinning, swelling, sleeping— too full to notice the plant, six feet tall, emerald leaves spl […]

]]> 4a5245563495089012edf21ffae0e58a Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38420 Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:00:33 -0400 Hansel by Claire Rubin Scott Why does she get all the praise just because she pushed the witch into blood-burning flames it was me who gathered shiny white pebbles glistening […]

]]> 86578dbb5748a0be2c4b885c7fdedf78 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38646 Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:00:30 -0400 It's Done, Beautifully Again by Tim Suermondt Tim Suermondt has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2024 Poetry Contest It’s Done, Beautifully Again My wife, Pui Ying, shows me her […]

]]> fd0c007ccf924814c047803a5ea4d046 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38898 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:50 -0400 The world's ugliest coffee table. Probably made by Martha Stewart in prison by Wayne Bowman OK. Here’s the back story. A couple of years ago, I walked into the living room one Sunday morning, and noticed one of the big pillows my wife and I […]

]]> 65efba01ed9984c2d40b9dec46dec5ae Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38313 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:00:04 -0400 For Notre Dame by Sian M. Jones An 800-year-old cathedral is burning to the ground. The world is in horror that things, too, can die, though we thought them immune or […]

]]> 87061127ae0dbab8bfab5ffeddc5ed23 Sharon Ackerman wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=38165 Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:00:15 -0400 Before the Ambulance and Dandelion, 2 poems by Dennis Cummings Before the Ambulance I saw him collapse on the trail that divides the golf course, then climbs and looks over the valley crowded with […]

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