Eurydice Emerges into the Light by Margaret Bauer

Eurydice Emerges into the Light by Margaret Bauer

Art: Jane Desonier Eurydice Emerges into the Light so for your arrogance and your ruthlessness I am swept back—H.D., “Eurydice”           I can relate to the poet H.D.’s interpretation of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. I have (more than once) fallen in love with...
Tundra Swans Twice by Benjamin Goluboff

Tundra Swans Twice by Benjamin Goluboff

Art: Monstragity by Robert Ferrier    Tundra Swans Twice   You don’t hear scientists beating up on the poets, as a rule, but the poets are always complaining about science. Poe called science a “Vulture, whose wings are dull realities.” Dickinson’s “Split...
Juggling Poetry by Sharon E. Svendsen

Juggling Poetry by Sharon E. Svendsen

Art: Bold and Free by Britnie Walston Juggling Poetry   At first                              you’re just playing catch                back and forth easy, you don’t even                             need special gloves soon, though,                            ...
Five poems by L.R. Berger

Five poems by L.R. Berger

Art: Sasan Golbostani         The Daoist Lu Dongbin Crossing Lake Dongting                                                 Painted Fan, Yuan Dynasty China He was going to cross the water. He was crossing on foot, he was forever going to. I was forever...
Two Poems by Yun Wang

Two Poems by Yun Wang

Art: Earth in Distress by Britnie Walston     Two Poems by Yun Wang, from “The Book of Mirrors” (White Pine Press, 2021)   Sam’s Plan   The little planet is green With lemonade ocean Boys are blue Girls are pink They are ant-size   Forests are purple...