Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poem. Show all posts
Sunday, June 28, 2026

NOT TELLING IT SLANT

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by Margit Berman AI graphic by Nightcafé for The New Verse News This poem went to the protest. This poem went to the protest and was arreste...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

SAVE YOUR BREATH

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by A J Dalton     AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News . They    put   tariff    words now So   ll use 10% less God help...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

DANCING WITH MR. BUNNY

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by Alan Walowitz     Alan Walowitz   is a Contributing Editor at   Verse-Virtual , an Online Community Journal of Poetry .   His chapbook   ...
Saturday, January 31, 2026

AFTER READING "MINNESOTA BRIEF: THINK OF THE CHILDREN" BY BREE DONOVAN

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by  Laurie Rosen this morning i read this poem   so sad it feels like a stab  to my heart i think  maybe this could move  the right people… ...
Monday, January 19, 2026

THE STINGLESS BEE, RECOGNIZED

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by Martin Elster Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a breakth...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

ICE

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a Golden Shovel after Adrienne Rich's   “ What Kind of Times Are These ” by  Nancy Sobanik " We support our neighbors and we will s...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

SILENCE, A CROW

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by  Francis Opila AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for  The New Verse News . Listen to silence at dawn the night still holds you by candlel...
Friday, March 21, 2025

MEDEA ALSO KILLED HER CHILDREN

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by Kathy Gilbert Medea on her golden chariot, by  Germán Hernández Amores I need to write a poem But 413 people who were alive Yesterday are...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

DRONES

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by Alejandro Escudé Bright lights over the evening sky near Lebanon, N.J., this month. Federal officials have said that most such sightings ...
Monday, December 02, 2024

EMAIL ADDRESS?

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by Helen Buckingham AI graphic from NightCafé Helen Buckingham 's work appears in journals and anthologies throughout the world, includi...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

KAMALA: A SANSKRIT WORD MEANING LOTUS

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by  Lana Hechtman Ayers   This morning I realized I was feeling something I hadn’t in a long time, though the cedar and spruce may not have ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

DO WE HAVE A DEAL?

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by Steven Kent A billion cash, that oughta do it.    Regulations? You'll be free. The sky, the air, the water—screw it!    What'd th...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

WINTER 2045

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by Steve Deutsch We bought the corner place on Burroughs Street— I’m sure you know it— a stately two story built when the neighborhood was o...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

CHRISTMAS 1942: MY FIRST POEM EVER

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by Susan Terris I was in kindergarten at a K through 8 school that h ad  a n annual  Christmas program on the stage in the gym.  It  always ...
Thursday, November 03, 2022

TRIOLET ON A CADENCE FROM ELIZABETH BISHOP

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by A. E. Stallings Arugga AI has created Polly, the first AI-powered pollination robot. It can recognize 97% of all plant specimens. We’d ra...
Friday, July 08, 2022

ENERGY CRISIS

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by Robert McParland  hurry down this poem this poem is running out of gas this poem just pulled in and this poem is low on fuel—it’s fuming ...
Tuesday, March 01, 2022

FOUND POEM OF WAR

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by Ellen Austin-Li Newborn twin brothers sleep in a basement used as a bomb shelter at the Okhmadet children's hospital in central Kyiv,...
Friday, February 25, 2022

POEM FOR A RUSSIAN SOLDIER

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by Jesse Dukes Written on the Eve of the Invasion of Kyiv A dead Russian soldier in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Credit: Tyler Hicks, The New York Time...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

BIERSTADT'S CHIMNEY ROCK

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by Bill Sullivan on the anniversary of the  Wounded Knee Massacre , December 29, 1880 From the Collection of  Colby College Museum of Art : ...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

INSPIRATION AND EDUCATION
:: FOUND IN & OF BELL HOOKS

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An Erasure Poem by Jen Schneider Derived from  "Appalachian Elegy" (Sections 1-6) by bell hooks (1952-2021) Activist & writer...