A look at a literary device

“Take My Waking” is from Lily Brown’s book Blade Work, which just won the 2026 Maine Literary Award for poetry. It seems in this early morning light, the speaker has willed herself awake from a troubl...

A poem, “God Is Burning,” by Li-Young Lee

The earth around the old house, when the spring rains come, has this habit of leaving gifts gleaming on the ground. Old bottle caps, smoothed hunks of glass, long-still snakes of baling wire, all s…

United on Flight 93         “The bright-eyed daughter, the quick son.         Alphabet of names in a green field.” &n…

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If light pours like water

He came down the river, splashing against the water’s dimming face like a skipped rock, passing on down out of sight.

"But it was really the night sky watching mercifully"

After Working in the ER for Twenty-Three Years I will not climb a ladder to clean leaf debris or hang Christmas lights. I will not use a blender while drinking. Fingers are precious, soft things ev…

In silence I have watched you comb your hair. (Almost the faintest whisper would be shrill.) So moments pass as though they wished to stay.

Because I was raised / in a home half-buried / by dirt in the Maine woods, / it took longer to learn how women were liquids, / filling up sweater sets, teacups, / and garden beds. Same as a coyote, / ...

Nature Aria Autumn wind chases in From all directions And a thousand chaste leaves Give...

How to share Poetry in a disinterested or hectic world

Contest Winners & Honorable Mentions

The first hay is in and all at oncein the silent evening summer has comeknowing the place wholly the green skinof its hidden slopes where the shadows willnever reach so far again and a fewgray hairs m...

Will the Well Run Dry?

Researchers in Dublin have uncovered the oldest surviving English poem in a Roman library.

It's there- Get Out and Find It!

Praise Song for Exiles Moon loosens her brimful scarf,   turns away her dark side and shakes silvered pins to shine  the face of Red Rock Lake. Lunar light strikes needle tips,  falls through...

Juliet as the Unpopular Girl Take him and cut him out in little stars—William Shakespeare Take her and cut her outfrom schoolgirl wagons drawnby fiery-footed horses. Cut her outfrom rings and rosie…

I’m currently participating in April is National Poetry Month- NaPoMo - poem a day writing.

Poetry by Nancy Sobanik, Eclectica Magazine v30n2

Do I have a Sucker Note Pinned On My Back?

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The first was that I was very busy.

Let's go blackberry picking. A tribute to a beloved Irish poet

A Bare Season PastWhen the ghost pepper breath of fire exhaledimmolating the parched undergrowth of summer, whatever I touched billowed then drifted, ash to barren ground.What I carried w…

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by ONE ART: a journal of poetry, published on February 22, 2026

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned h...