This is a Love Song
By Zahara HeckscherThis is a love song
to the invisible waves
that travel through the air
finding the antenna
Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets.
By Zahara HeckscherThis is a love song
to the invisible waves
that travel through the air
finding the antenna
By JP Howardblack women we be trying to hold worlds
on our backs, in our hearts without fail
some days we fail at perfection
By Trace Howard DePass[And legal] now.
[Taking full advantage of the enough he is.
Might go sign up for the war.
By Purvi ShahYou had a name no one
could hold between their
teeth. So they pronounced
By Anastacia-Reneethe cedar tree could not comprehend
the crime could not comprehend a leaning
a lynching a love gone wrong
By Fred Joinera pocket can sometimes be
a kind of prison,
I have never lived in
By Kathy EngelPraise the words and what
defies words, the mamas and
fathers, all the beloveds
By Luis Alberto AmbroggioPoetry might never have seen
that categorical word,
but in its charged belligerence
of emotions and in its profound determination,
By Holly KarapetkovaThere never was a garden
only a leaving:
miles and miles
of footprints in the dirt.