Volume 9
Thursday, 12 June 2025
The following poems were published on the site between February and November 2022. They are also collected in the ninth volume of Heron Tree, available as a free downloadable PDF, edited by Chris Campolo and Rebecca Resinski.
Poems created from the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Kate Falvey: The Three Visionary Girls | Dorothy Almost Imagined
Lesley Finn: Mother in New-Fallen Snow
Karen George: Ars Poetica | Become Like the Sea, a Vessel | Dear Mother, last night I dreamt
Joan Leotta: Birds
Jami Macarty: Snow-Image
Poems created using Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills
Susan Kay Anderson: At Radio Central | When I Was a Boy | Every Singer
B. J. Buckley: Imagine a Grand Picnic
Jennifer Hernandez: Inductance
Carol H. Jewell: LETTER 19: THE AUDION AMPLIFIER AND ITS CONNECTIONS
J. A. Lagana: receiving | How the wind will
Jackson Oscar: A Dear Telephone
Basiliké Pappa: PORTUGUESE WIRES
Deborah Purdy: Away from Home | The Right Words
M. E. Silverman: John Mills’ Letter of a Radio Engineer to his Son on Electricity and Matter
Christine Veasey: Dear Youth
Poems created with other pre-1927 materials
Deborah-Zenha Adams: hold the world | the naked eye may send
James Benton: Address Alternate Gettysburg Lincoln’s of Reading
Maria L. Berg: Repent
Iris Jamahl Dunkle: Earthquake
Melissa Frederick: The Moon, This Unending Night
Diane LeBlanc: Two Telescopic Views of the Moon
Richard L. Matta: Embracing the Unknown Cento
K Roberts: [see; that last lovely tree]
Kelly R. Samuels: Riding Several Horses
Jonathan Yungkans: Forslin’s Jig | Our Shadows Descend | Our Hands Are Light