Contributor Series 1: 9/11 The Day We Know as 9/11By Anna Alpine(written September 2009)The writer was in Bergenfield, NJ on 9/11. It was a day of new beginnings.My daughter started preschool and my son was off to first grade.It was a day of heavenly beauty.The sky was bright blue with soft clouds and the sun […]

Contributor Series 1: 9/11 September MornBy Sandra Forte(written September 11, 2001, when the writer found herself contemplating September Morn, a painting suggestive of innocence by French artist Paul Chabas and exhibited in Paris in 1912) In the unspoiled countrytime stopsfor a bather innocent of evilto luxuriate in the dawnof a new day.Across the rivertime tunelessly […]

Contributor Series 1: 9/11 Threnody for the Survivors of September 11, 2001By Ray Sharp(written September 2009) The angel of death flew on silver wings.Strange solitary birds clad in dark feathersTumbled through the bright blue sky. A blizzard of confetti–scraps of livesTorn asunder–swirled on air currents stirredBy three thousand souls, or by their absence. Tall towers […]

Contributor Series 1: 9/11 Tuesday Morning RisingBy R. Scott DeSena(written September 7, 2009)The writer witnessed these events while driving to work on the NJ Turnpike on 9/11.Tuesday morning risingTwo shadowsTurnpikeTurn my mind to stoneTraffic screaming to a haltChills crawling to the bone. Fires for daysBillowing cloudsSmoke-filled ashFilled with lost soulsCrying for salvationA new terror unfolds. […]

As we approach the somber anniversary of 9/11, we inaugurate a new series: The Contributor Series. This is an ongoing, occasional series of collections of poems by writers whose work has appeared here already or is slated to appear in the near future. This, the first of the bunch, brings us poetry of 9/11. Each […]