Volume 12

The following poems were published on the site between September 2025 and February 2026. They 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.

 

Maria L. Berg: Every Cause Has Its Effect* | Let Us Seek This Truth*

Marietta Brill: If Bees*

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

D. W. Cunningham: Is

Julie Dillemuth: Aging with Scoliosis* | Twelve Waves*

Kari Ann Ebert: The Doctrine of Fundamental Gravity* | Upon First Meeting My Double*

Joanna Friedman: The Train to My House*

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*

Jami Macarty: The Great Wonderful Forsaken Earth Flower Tyde*

Jessica Lee McMillan: Even in Midnight | Lessening Days | The Star-Glass

Wilda Morris: Is This Vanity?*

Jim Murdoch: The Eye | Smitten

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

Vidya Premkumar: [be gentle]

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

Shloka Shankar: A Blackout Diptych from Dracula | Praise*

Amy Small-McKinney: Cento: From Nellie Bly, “Ten Days in a Mad-House” 1887

Robin Turner: [sing]