I wouldn’t feel like a proper poet if I didn’t champion the work of other poets, which is why I have created this page. Here, I will post links to poems I love that are available online. The list will forever be growing, so be sure to check back regularly.
“Lexicon for a Simpler Childhood” – by Hillery Stone (featured on Rattle on Jan. 2, 2017)
“Veins” – by Julie Price Pinkerton (featured on Rattle on Apr. 10, 2017)
“Ghazal with My Hands Folded, Waiting” – by Duncan Slagle (featured on Frontier Poetry on June 8, 2018)
“Weather” – by Faith Shearin (featured on The Writer’s Almanac on Mar. 8, 2017)
“I’d Rather be the Father” – by Faith Shearin (featured on The Writer’s Almanac on Feb. 23, 2012)
“Pin” – by Grady Chambers (published in vol. 11 no. 1 of Diode)
“An Education” – by Lawrence Raab (published in The Common issue 14 on Nov. 1, 2017)
“When I Reach for Your Pulse” – by Rushi Vyas (published by The Offing on July 11, 2017)
“Because they told me to write my own history” – by Kelsey A. Solomon (published in The Mockingbird 2016 vol. 44, pp. 26-27)
“Pulling the Organ Stops” – by Rita Dove (published in vol. 65 no. 1 of Shenandoah)
“Little Boy Blue” – by Eugene Field (first published in 1888, further citations in the link)
“The Great Flood” – by Lana Austin (published in the Summer 2016 vol. 44 issue 3 of Appalachian Heritage)
“Instinct” – by Stephanie McCarley Duggar (published in the June 2015 issue of bluestem magazine)
“April Showers” – by Molly Likovich (published in the Dec. 2016 issue of bluestem magazine)
“Noam Poem” – by Jack Cooper (published in the Mar. 2017 issue of bluestem magazine)
“Look Up” – by Daniel Fansler (published in the 2015-2016 issue of Red Mud Review)
“This Living Hand” – by David Kirby (featured on Rattle on Mar. 31, 2017)
“At the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994” – by Sherman Alexie (published in the Fall 1995 vol. 46 no. 1 issue of Beloit Poetry Journal)
“Belvedere” – by Thomas Alan Holmes (published in the Fall 2011 issue of Town Creek Poetry)
“Siren” – by Jesse Graves (published in the Spring 2016 issue of Still: The Journal)
“After I Got the Email from the Dean of Students” – by Julie Price Pinkerton (featured on Rattle on Nov. 21, 2016)
“A Taste of Blue” – by Cynthia Manick (featured in Poem-a-Day on Sept. 15, 2016)
“The Poet Abandons His Craft” – by Peter J. Curry (featured on Rattle on Sep. 9, 2016)
“Moth Koan” – by Richard Schiffman (featured on Rattle on Aug. 13, 2012)
“In My Mother’s Things” – by Risa Potters (featured on Rattle on Aug. 12, 2016)
Abby N. Lewis 