Volume 8
Thursday, 12 June 2025
The following poems were published on the site between January and November 2021. They are also collected in the eighth volume of Heron Tree, available as a free downloadable PDF, edited by Chris Campolo and Rebecca Resinski.
Poems created from How to Keep Bees by Anna Botsford Comstock
Susan Kay Anderson: The Problem | Digression
Amy Beveridge: We Hunted the Invisible
Gabriella Brand: Fidelity in a Bed of Pinks
Pamela Hobart Carter: Latitudes
Mariko O. Gordon: Nightfall
Megan Hartford: A Warning
Mary Crockett Hill: [banners of red]
Laurie Kolp: Her final days | The Tree and the Flower | Why Not?
Diane LeBlanc: How to Keep from Keeping
Rebecca Patrascu: How to Winter Bees
Winston Plowes: HOW TO HIVE A SWARM
Jennifer Saunders: A Handbook for Happiness and Honey (An Introduction to Delight)
Kashiana Singh: when honey is scarce
Poems created from other materials in the public domain
Wendy DeGroat: Still Life
Connor Fisher: Tornado Watch
Mark A. Fisher: I know more about death
Melissa Frederick: Once More, the Moon
Megan Hartford: Alive
Lou Ella Hickman: crossing
C. E. Janecek: Heaven to Those Who Are Asleep
Colleen E. Kennedy: You weave, and I | Sonnet
Jarrett Moran: Deceptive Land Purchase: Ox Hide Measure
Basilike Pappa: How to Become a God and Fade from Sight
Deborah Purdy: Enough | Try to Find a Reason | Gratitude Cento
Lynda Gene Rymond: Authority Based on Actual Tests
Sarah Sarai: I Shall Be Removed
Shloka Shankar: The Desert of My Love | A Trick of Thought
Sheree Shatsky: Reflection | the end of the world had come
Pamela Wax: The Woman Who: A Found Poem
Ann Weil: The Importance of the Screw | Instructions for Carving by the Coroner Poet
Amy A. Whitcomb: The Desert Inside Us: Mary Austin’s California in Found Haiku