on summer’s cusp
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
As we take a break from posting a new poem this week, we invite to you read or re-read the volume 10 poems we’ve published so far this year:
Poems created from the Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper (1653)
Pamela Hobart Carter, “Marvel”
M. E. Goelzer, “A Remedy for Heartache”
Jennifer Hernandez, “Of Medicines appropriated to the heart”
Michelle Lynch, “Under the Black Alder”
Deborah Purdy, “At the Approach of Winter”
Poems created from other pre-1928 materials
Deborah-Zenha Adams, “it was the last summer”
Erica Meraz, “So As To Taste Sleep”
Lynn Pattison, “Unfortunate Mottos, an erasure poem”
Maggie Rosen, “Obituary of Harriet Williams, Consort of Abraham T. Williams, January 12, 1844”