by Emma Walsh
by Fabrice Poussin
A Georgia poet celebrates the spirits of Spring.
by Michael Cavanagh
by Stephanie Snow
by Ethan Kenvarg
The poet confers a Spring blessing on one of the prairie’s humblest—and most necessary—residents.
by Rustin Larson
by Karen Downing
by Hannah Clark
by Changming Yuan
by Stephanie L. Harper
Roadtrips aren’t just fodder for travelogues, as this poet shows us. They produce poems, too.
by Niki Neems
by Ethan Starr Evans
by Clare Jones
Our issue’s third poet posits a commerce between ripening ferns and the stars.
by Molly Griffin, illustrated by Claudia McGehee
by Taylor Greene
A room isn’t just space in a house; it’s a state of mind, as this poem reminds us.
by Mike Lewis-Beck
by Richard Luftig
by Michelle Harris-Love
by Sam Burt
by Bill Graeser
This poet turns to a pair of Iowa icons–a Grant Wood painting and the quadrennial caucuses–to evoke the quiet behind the image.
by Oona Miller
by John Grey
The poet–an Australian transplant–takes on the autumn’s changeable weather and its effect on we who move through it.
by Gerard Sarnat
Benjamin and Therese Brosseau
Richard Luftig’s second appearance on our pages features an imagined road trip, and the solace of endurance in winter.
The word “gnosis” denotes the study of spiritual mysteries, which this poet recognizes in the sky, in the land, in the eyes of love.
by Rodney Nelson
In this poet’s work the prairie’s weathers have an intimate connection to the landscape’s history.
by Pasha Buck