The Poetry Porch 2026:   Edited by Joyce Wilson

PROVISIONS

Little Oil, Vitrine 5 by Katherine Jackson (glass sculpture).
Copyright © by Katherine Jackson 2026.

INCLUDING: Ruth Arnison   Linda Arntzenius   Bruce Bennett   Elizabeth Birch   Barbara Siegel Carlson   Richard Dey   Chard deNiord   Susan Donnelly   Richard Fein   Mary Freeman   Helen Heineman   Robin Helweg-Larsen   John L. Holgerson   Katherine Jackson   Robert K. Johnson   George Kalogeris   David M. Katz   Jean L. Kreiling   David MacRae Landon   Miriam O'Neal   Marge Piercy   Hilary Sallick   Joan S. Soble   Elaine Sorrentino   Michael Todd Steffen   Emily Jane VandenBos Style   Diane Thiel   Jonathan Chibuike Ukah   Rachel Weintraub   Jay Wickersham   Joyce Wilson   Joanna Zarkadas  

PROSE:
Editor’s NOTE   Two essays “Death and Euphemisms” and “Cats and Me Now” by Marge Piercy


POETRY:
By Richard Dey, from Moonrise over Penobscot Bay,
       A Sequence of Eight Poems
Three by Diane Thiel
        The Song the Only Map
        Turning
        Appreciating Gravity
Two by Michael Todd Steffen
        For Michael Longley
        My Cousins
Three by George Kalogeris
        Porcelain
        Rash
        Laundry Load
Four by Richard Fein
       Brighton Beach
        Phrasing the End
        A Different Night
        Leaving Teaching . . .
Three by Helen Heineman
        Poetry Class
        Losses
        Stroke
the world by Hilary Sallick
Four by Marge Piercy
        An orchestra of solos
        Life in the dark
        How we love now
        Early spring is still a joy


Poem in which I thank my anger— by Miriam O’Neal
Four by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah
        My Sadness is My Private Property
        The Bicyclist
        A Dress Rehearsal
        To My Little Sister
Three by Joan S. Soble
        The Field Who Would Be Queen
        November 2008
        On Plimack Mangold’s Winter Landscapes
Two by Chard deNiord
        Brush Pile
        Orpheus’s Swan Song
Four by Barbara Siegel Carlson
        Swinging Near Dark
        Above Earth
        Afterlife
        Green Mountains Walking
Four Songs by Robert K. Johnson
Shared Seas by Elizabeth Birch
Great Crested Grebe by Jay Wickersham
Brief Return to a Paradise Lost by John L. Holgerson
Things My Father Held by Elaine Sorrentino
Lullabye for Julian by Joanna Zarkadas
Mossend Memoir by Linda Arntzenius
Autumn Mulching by Ruth Arnison
Two by Emily Jane VandenBos Style
        Daffodil Study
        Consider Joining the Potato Brigade


SPECIAL FEATURE: The Sonnet Scroll

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