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Poetry Published by San Antonio Review
Mingo Dreaming
by
Larry Smith
Published: Jul 15, 2020
"It’s hard to be a city at night, sleeping along this big river. So much wakes you from slumber ... "
3:54
by
RC deWinter
Published: Feb 26, 2020
"for the 13th time i’ve looked at the time / glowing back from the phone that never sleeps"
State Worker Catches Himself in a Lie, Then Realizes Truth is Far More Interesting
by
Harold Whit Williams
Published: Jun 26, 2022
A poem from musician-poet Harold Whit Williams' latest collection.
Artist’s Critique
by
Yolanda Wright
Published: Jul 17, 2022
"Heavy-handed strokes / Punctuate this piece."
Cloudy with a Chance of Atheism
by
Aanuoluwapo Adesina
Published: May 29, 2022
Corona Seasons: haiku and senryu sequence (since 2020)
by
Dilys Wyndham Thomas
Published: May 08, 2022
Nine Haikus
by
Rose Menyon Heflin
Published: Apr 24, 2022
“Pencils down now, please,” / Armed men politely order. / "There shall be no press.”
State Worker's Skeptical Bedtime Prayer
by
Harold Whit Williams
and
Harold Whit Williams
Published: Jul 31, 2022
"It matters not to me, as I assume / Some gods cannot exist except in dreams, / In trifling songs."
My Parents Go In Swimming
by
John Grey
Published: Mar 27, 2022
“The lighthouse is a century old; / I only ask for half of that time.”
State Worker Considers the Concept of Dualism, Then Shrugs It Off as Metaphysical Smoke and Mirrors
by
Harold Whit Williams
and
Harold Whit Williams
Published: Jul 24, 2022
"Maybe thanks / For separating thoughts from what one thinks."
On the Border
by
Gayle J Greenlea
Published: Feb 06, 2022
“hair trimmed in reeds instead of ribbons”
ON THE SEA
by
Mark Burgh
Published: Jan 09, 2022
"Saltwater jerks & spits"
Hagia Sophia
by
Aida Bode
Published: Nov 14, 2021
"Byzantium is but the shadow of a whisper"
NPV < 0
by
Sean Winn
Published: Jul 25, 2021
"I have forecasted my future / happiness"
ER Visit
by
Jen Ashburn
Published: Jul 21, 2021
“I know you’re reading the inverse print of the carbon paper”
Deliverance at the Depot: An Introduction
by
Christopher Stolle
Published: Jul 04, 2021
“the old and young laborers who never knew a train ride, / never knew you could go elsewhere, be someone else.”
at fault
by
RC deWinter
Published: Jun 16, 2021
“yet navigating by the heart / is a tricky business”
You Always Demand Rain, But Only Supply Ruin
by
Jake Sheff
Published: Jun 23, 2021
“She taught a lesson no one wants to learn.”
New England Soil
by
Ash Slade
Published: Jun 06, 2021
"settlers without blueprints"
Marlene Dietrich Played The Saw
by
D. B. Fishman
Published: Apr 25, 2021
“On an arc of bending bladed metal, bowed”
I Do Not Say
by
H. Leivick
and
Ash Lange
Published: Apr 11, 2021
A Meditation on a Translation Work-in-Progress
Heat Mirage
by
Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton
Published: Apr 03, 2021
"pyrrhic freedoms fade softly / into heat of noon sweat"
Slate
by
Sean Winn
Published: Mar 28, 2021
"A material so imbued with history / cannot be a blank slate."
Ghost Drafting
by
Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton
Published: Apr 21, 2021
"the dead starve in their hollow / halls"
Remains
by
Joshua Bridgwater Hamilton
Published: May 12, 2021
"maintenance / compassion / nurture."
The Life-Tree
by
Emily Bilman
Published: Mar 17, 2021
"Can I survive the very light I created"
December Song
by
Lisa Keeton
Published: Mar 24, 2021
"Later / tonight, a baby will be put into my body by an act of love"
March 14th
by
Ann Pedone
Published: Mar 14, 2021
"You know from the floorboards that you are / in a forgotten city."
Human Geometry
by
Mendy Zibulnik
Published: Jun 27, 2021
“I sometimes think / That any given 2 people/ As 2 Euclidean points / Define a line”
SAR II in Collage
by
William O. Pate II
and
Sady Sparks
Published: Mar 21, 2021
"I like games and fun and play and I like talking about how easy poetry is, how everyone is a poet, how the alphabet is a playground and we are the players."
cho bà nội (for my grandmother)
by
Julia Vu
Published: May 23, 2021
“newton said that energy is neither / created nor destroyed”
hanging
by
German Dario
Published: May 09, 2021
“the waiting — the looking — and yearning”
After Reading “State of Relax” by Eileen Myles
by
Patrick T. Reardon
Published: Jan 13, 2021
"fever-dream / of the Un-united States"
The Morning Street of Shanghai
by
Zhihui Zou
Published: Feb 10, 2021
"Craftsmen lay out their hand-made dolls wearing ancient emperors’ robes and hats."
From the Dock
by
Ash Slade
Published: Feb 21, 2021
"side to side like strangers"
Blueberry Picking, 1972
by
Fredric Hildebrand
Published: Feb 17, 2021
“The first blueberry pings the pail’s / emptiness”
County Road D, Brantwood, WI, After a Storm
by
Fredric Hildebrand
Published: Dec 16, 2020
"a barn collapsed / in a spiral of timbers and twisted roof"
He Would Take You
by
Abigael Leigh
Published: Dec 20, 2020
“Take. Take. Take.”
priestless
by
RC deWinter
Published: Nov 04, 2020
"i'm not granite / but a / breakable innocent"
Resurrection
by
Alex Z. Salinas
Published: Dec 09, 2020
"I dreamt I was the ashes of / Christ"
Willy Lott’s Cottage
by
Sam McDonald
Published: Oct 21, 2020
"Our East Anglian-Indian summer bounced in place"
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
by
Kenneth Pobo
Published: Oct 28, 2020
“We're having a baby soon. / Despite being two men.”
Neighbors
by
Shana Ross
Published: Feb 24, 2021
"Now I know to call / this a panic attack."
Before Karen Carpenter Added Anorexia to the Lexicon
by
Janet Reed
Published: Nov 01, 2020
“and we drank the silk milk of her voice / watched her body thin on prime-time Saturday night”
An Anorexic to the Dead Mother Who Made Writing Bible Verses an Act of Self-Loathing
by
Janet Reed
Published: Oct 07, 2020
“I puked my prayers / sweated in tangled sheets”
EMILY AS FIVE PAGES OF TEXT IN ONE LOOK
by
Darren C. Demaree
Published: Feb 28, 2021
"our escape velocity wasn’t enough / to leave Ohio behind forever."
EMILY AS SHE ASKS ME ONE MORE QUESTION ABOUT MY PARENTS' DIVORCE
by
Darren C. Demaree
Published: Sep 23, 2020
"I never should have happened"
EMILY AS A HANDFUL OF BOLTS FROM A COFFEE CAN
by
Darren C. Demaree
Published: Nov 25, 2020
“I cannot hold the light for her”
Premonition
by
Anannya Uberoi
Published: Oct 04, 2020
“the rain dolls sway with beads of glint / in their matte eyes”
Remember How
by
Anannya Uberoi
Published: Nov 15, 2020
"Our mothers were jeweled / in nose pins and brass hoops"
Ugly
by
Maeve McKenna
Published: Sep 21, 2020
“tear with shrapnel hands / eyelashes from their skin graves”
i lied…i have the title
by
RC deWinter
Published: Sep 06, 2020
"when the last train came through i missed it / i was in the bathroom trying to zip up my sanity"
Dim Memories
by
Peycho Kanev
Published: Aug 30, 2020
"The wind is looking for his foggy keys / to sneak through the door."
Poach
by
Max Heinegg
Published: Sep 30, 2020
“My bread’s in need of / blessing; salt the theft.”
Deus Ex
by
Max Heinegg
Published: Aug 23, 2020
"Though we dream of dying at our curtain, / most are carried off mid-speech / or awaiting cue"
Some Emergency
by
DS Maolalai
Published: Aug 09, 2020
"it's 7 / a.m. on this fine / sunday morning"
Mountaineering
by
RC deWinter
Published: Aug 05, 2020
"I live atop a smoldering volcano, / always rumbling and threatening to erupt."
Libations
by
Christian Garduno
Published: Jul 26, 2020
"She dreams of me in matte"
Inadequate Help
by
James Croal Jackson
Published: Aug 19, 2020
"I counted twelve hundred drops of rain / to cull the drought in the desert"
The River
by
LARRY Smith
Published: Jun 17, 2020
“And there we stood / looking out in silence / at the great river / too wide to swim across”
The Chinwagger’s Complaint
by
Carolyn Martin
Published: Jun 03, 2020
"These fopdoodles don’t know diddly-squat."
You Will Not
by
David A. Grenardo
Published: May 20, 2020
"You will not forget what you were made for, / And you will not ever give up the fight."
Warm Nectar
by
Robert Okaji
Published: May 06, 2020
"I dream of your dance with warm nectar / and the frosted hummingbirds buzzing by."
Two Covid-19 Poems
by
Alan Altimont
Published: May 27, 2020
"We keep our distance"
The Falls
by
Larry Smith
Published: May 13, 2020
"And you journey here in couples or groups, / intent on wading out into my waters"
Reliquary
by
Stephanie Garon
Published: May 10, 2020
"One crooked alley morphs silhouettes into drain pipes with / Night, the magician, molding frames"
Other Little Brother
by
Tom C. Hunley
Published: May 31, 2020
"Boy, you can talk."
lipstick
by
RC deWinter
Published: May 24, 2020
"i’m not deceivedby the brilliance of fall"
The Coconut Palms Remember
by
Melissa Andrés
Published: Apr 29, 2020
"The trees heard and watched / until I had to be dragged away."
Special
by
Tom C. Hunley
Published: Apr 26, 2020
"Last semester, a student with Asperger’s announced / to our class that yes, Frank O’Hara was right"
Quarantine
by
DS Maolalai
Published: Apr 19, 2020
I stand by the window / watching this half-hearted quarantine.
How Do You Know You Can Do Better?
by
Ace Boggess
Published: Apr 22, 2020
-- overheard in an audience
Giving the Finger to Mr. Death
by
LARRY Smith
Published: Apr 15, 2020
"And each time I’m reminded of my age / and that this is how it will be."
The Orchid That Looks Out Our Living Room Window
by
Anna Ter-Yegishyan
Published: Mar 18, 2020
"does more than look"
The Grass Is Never Greener
by
John Patrick Robbins
Published: Mar 11, 2020
“Dreaming of something and not fully understanding that which / compels us to keep moving on.
Foot Race
by
Ryan McMasters
Published: Mar 25, 2020
“What if we felt everything / while walking & / it was all worth it?”
Dirty Looks
by
Tom C. Hunley
Published: Mar 22, 2020
"In my son’s wide eyes I can see / the steeple of the church we left / after one too many dirty looks
Carvings
by
Peggy Hammond
Published: Mar 08, 2020
“You were packed off, steered / In the direction of your mother’s desires.”
13 Ways of Looking at My Second Mother
by
Mary Rohrer-Dann
Published: Mar 01, 2020
“Her mother pleads, Don’t do it, / don’t do it, but, twenty-one, she boards / the ship anyway”
Watching a Train Go By
by
Glover Davis
Published: Feb 02, 2020
“One blood tipped consonant cuts like a scythe”
War Stories
by
Mary Rohrer-Dann
Published: Feb 19, 2020
“A soldier found her, pulled her deeper into the grass.”
To All Dog Owners in the Neighborhood
by
Carolyn Martin
Published: Feb 12, 2020
"There must be a 12-step group you could join –I’ll even drive you there – or a therapist who'll help you fill your dog-size void."
Such Sweet Thunder
by
Jean Colonomos
Published: Feb 09, 2020
“This / was my parents’ way, / grabbing from a fight the night before / and carrying it into the next day”
Lobsters in a Restaurant Tank
by
Peter Bethanis
Published: Feb 23, 2020
“I bet they never / Dreamed they’d end up here.”
Heed The Warning
by
John Patrick Robbins
Published: Feb 02, 2020
“Sad old men were once promising young fools.”
Finding Scars
by
Max Heinegg
Published: Feb 05, 2020
"I could show you / the drunken bicycle"
Communion of Saints
by
Patrick Reardon
Published: Feb 16, 2020
“Lisieux’s little flower knew her guilt”
I’m Full of Ashes
by
Edward Vidaurre
Published: Jan 16, 2020
“little crystals fly around me / weightless ash planets swirl”
Audrey in Confession
by
Patrick T. Reardon
Published: Jan 19, 2020
“I am sinful in my innocence”
Unfathomable
by
Brigid Hannon
Published: Dec 22, 2019
"Unfathomable pain leads to unfathomable choices"
The tree line distant and still
by
Nicolas Visconti
Published: Dec 08, 2019
“Closer than what I remember as the edge / of the earth with a sail cast out on string”
His Hands
by
Br. Tom Giardino, S.M.
Published: Dec 15, 2019
"Daily they carved out a life"
Bear Trap
by
Brian Rihlmann
Published: Dec 01, 2019
“and I had nothing / but a couple of classes / and a head full of books”
Song for Daniel
by
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Published: Nov 03, 2019
"Hi, how are you?"
Passing Time
by
Margaret Cantú-Sánchez
Published: Nov 06, 2019
“He felt his way with fingertips searching for the nightstand light, / with the soft click and amber glow, he began to dress.”
Grandma’s Journal
by
Brian Rihlmann
Published: Nov 24, 2019
“she glances at me / looks away / before I’ve got a chance / to wave hello”
Boy with blanket
by
Nicolas Visconti
Published: Nov 13, 2019
“First and foremost, it is a shield”
Box
by
Stephen Roger Powers
Published: Nov 27, 2019
“Why can’t abattoir mean / boudoir?”
art is not what you see
by
David E. Matthews
Published: Nov 10, 2019
but what you make others see
A Long Way from Underground
by
Stephen Roger Powers
Published: Nov 20, 2019
“I am sorry I never grew my arms / long enough to wrap around”
The Wandering Gamete’s Hymn to a Public Park
by
Colin Dodds
Published: Oct 02, 2019
“Heat mutes light and summer women / don’t know any better, or they do”
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