Poetry

  Death by Chocolate A man wants my take on his novelwhere a wife dies with a peanut in her...

National Youth Poet Laureate Alyssa Gaines reads at the Indianapolis Public Library’s annual Fall Fest 2019. (Indianapolis Public Library /...

  Private Collection             At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art the ocean drawn in pencil is no longer             on display. I...

                           for my father, 1936-2008                 My stepmother tells us come hungry, come...

Ms. Muse is a discovery place for riotous, righteous and resonant feminist poetry that nourishes and gives voice to a...

Ms. Muse is a discovery place for riotous, righteous and resonant feminist poetry that nourishes and gives voice to a...

A new college course emboldened young feminist writers at the University of Washington, Bothell—during a school term of mass shootings...

Hum Slip ofbirdwith fanof furiouswings inblossom’sthroat I hearyour wing-beat sing.To nectaryou needno key,mid-ribof leaf orsip fromlittle redvialsconstantlydefiled;starvationstavedfor onemore day.Butterflyweed, too,bids...

On Dec. 13, 2021, the 50th anniversary of when Roe v. Wade was argued at the Supreme Court, abortion rights...

  The Bay Dragonflies mating in the greeny shadeof the tamarisk, their brief lives unfettered. On the bleached bay, becalmed,...