The Poetry Porch 2025:   Edited by Joyce Wilson

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Urban Overpass by Allegra Printz (Oil pastel on paper, 12 by 15.5 inches, unframed).
Copyright © by Allegra Printz 2025.

INCLUDING: Jennifer Barber   Bruce Bennett   Elizabeth Birch   Barbara Siegel Carlson   Ruth C. Chad    Richard Dey   William Doreski   Miriam Drev   Richard Fein   Mia Schillling Grogan   Ruth Hoberman   Robert K. Johnson   George Kalogeris   Michael Kfoury   David Landon   David Landrum   Catherine Mayes   Marge Piercy   David J. Rothman   Hilary Sallick   Carla Schwartz   Joan Soble   John Whitney Steele   Michael Todd Steffen   David Stephenson   Rachel Weintraub   Gary Whited   Jay Wickersham   M. Brooke Wiese   Joyce Wilson  

PROSE:
Editor's NOTE


POETRY:
Three by George Kalogeris:
        Ohio
        Grotto
        Speetha
Three by Marge Piercy:
        The Selling of Shame
        The Greener Grass
        Taking Stock at 88
Four by Richard Fein:
       Your Lips
        At The Blue Bottle
        December Trees
        Bikiripur
Four by Miriam Drev, translated from the Slovene
by the Author and Barbara Siegel Carlson:

        Fox
        Whistling
        Cradle
        Helix
Three by Robert K. Johnson:
        A Psalm
        An Old-Age Day
        Unfathomable
Four by Jennifer Barber:
        Scribbled on a Torn Check
        What's Here Is Already Gone
        Legend
        Prayer to Ishtar


Four by William Doreski:
       The Weaver of Webs
        Walking to Latvia
       Red Ripe
       Asps and Braided Kraits
Three by Gary Whited:
        My Father, My Virgil
        Remembering Haystacks
        Caught
What's Left Behind by Elizabeth Birch
Three by Jay Wickersham:
        Perseids
        A Haircut
        Going to Reno (1963)
Three by Michael Todd Steffen:
        Weathervanes
        The News
        Doomed Liner
September 25, 2021 by Carla Schwartz
Bleach Stains by Michael Kfoury
Three by John Whitney Steele
Four by Hilary Sallick
Day by Day by Ruth Chad
Elegy for a Scrap by Barbara Siegel Carlson
Two by Joan S. Soble:
        Inversion
        Does Optimism Always Sing?


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