Volume 12

We began publishing poems for volume 12 of Heron Tree in September 2025. They will be listed here as they appear on the site and will eventually be collected in a free downloadable PDF.

As part of our submission call for volume 12, we invited poets to use 12 in some way in their poems. Poems marked with an asterisk* reflect that invitation.

 

Ginny Lowe Connors: The Chickens Have Died But 5 Goslings Have Hatched

D. W. Cunningham: Is

Julie Dillemuth: Aging with Scoliosis* | Twelve Waves*

Karen George: Waking from a Dream* | When she caught another’s attention, her body*

Kathleen Hellen: in human language

Brittany N. Jaekel: At the Sea-Coast*

Jim Murdoch: The Eye | Smitten

Basiliké Pappa: In the Long Slow Stroke of the Midnight Bell*

Deborah Purdy: It Came from Somewhere in the Sky*| Remember*

Robin Turner: [sing]