Frieda Landau’s most recent poem to appear here was April on I-95 North (April 2015). A Sonnet on Turning 50 By Frieda Landau So what if your joints creak more often, And food goes right to your thighs, And your muscles are starting to soften, And there’s something wrong with your eyes The gray in […]
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The Potato
Rita Budrionis was raised on the south side of Chicago where she received her first poetry rejection in fifth grade by Sister Ladisla, her teacher, who dismissed her mighty fine rhyming Halloween poem as plagiarism. Luckily, Rita’s mother believed her daughter. Now, as a grown-up, Rita has a psychologist day job, but at night she writes […]
Regret
Jenny Billings Beaver’s most recent poem to appear here was Night and Day (June 2011), published as part of Contributor Series 9: If Men Had Ears. Regret By Jenny Billings Beaver Sure, I could have worked fewer hours, learned to cook, been at your beck and call in the bedroom, desired children less, gone to […]
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