Poetry Archive

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  • I Saw

    Greg Tuleja

    16

    Avg Score

    1.87

  • The Bar in St. Andrew's

    Katherine swett

    03

    Avg Score

    1.92

  • Traveling North

    Bobbi Lurie

    02

    Avg Score

    1.5

  • Topsy Turvy Everything

    Farida Samerkhanova

    19

    Avg Score

    2.24

  • Your Chambre de Bonne, Winter

    Melanie Langer

    10

    Avg Score

    1.75

  • In the Salon of the Centro Artistico, 1933

    Jesse Waters

    05

    Avg Score

    1.77

  • An Apple from Dachau

    Jesse Waters

    04

    Avg Score

    1.92

  • Elephants in Africa

    Angela Gattin

    11

    Avg Score

    1.94

  • A Matter of Convenience

    Anthony DiMichele

    05

    Avg Score

    1.57

  • Your Chambre de Bonne, Winter

    Melanie Langer

    02

    Avg Score

    1.69

  • Conjuring

    Charles Hansmann

    18

    Avg Score

    1.85

  • The Final Thoughts of Jeanne D'Arc

    James McColley Eilers

    15

    Avg Score

    1.67

  • Goodwill

    Josh Magnuson

    20

    Avg Score

    1.87

  • Telescope

    Claire Bowman

    13

    Avg Score

    1.59

  • On the Virtues of Zoning

    Gene Goldfarb

    17

    Avg Score

    1.52

  • Convoy (*Inspiration from ‘Shiloh’ by Larry Levis)

    Tonya Peterson

    13

    Avg Score

    1.97

  • Fathermine

    Paul Lobo Portuges

    03

    Avg Score

    1.45

  • An Apple from Dachau

    Jesse Waters

    14

    Avg Score

    2.05

  • In the Sewanee Cemetery: Where Soldiers Rest

    Philip M. Carr-Harris

    13

    Avg Score

    1.49

  • Tense Darkness

    Farida Samerkhanova

    13

    Avg Score

    2.05

  • Transmissions from the Moon

    Charles Kasler

    20

    Avg Score

    1.65

  • Good Daughter

    Pepsie Jabre

    13

    Avg Score

    1.72

  • Boundbrook

    Samuel A. Miller

    02

    Avg Score

    1.3

  • The Poet's Embezzlement

    Con Chapman

    15

    Avg Score

    1.72
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