Volume 8

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