Poetry
05.06.2013
The B Side
Bryonia Liggins
Since April is National Poetry Month, we’re pleased to run poems by a pair of younger writers who participated in …
05.03.2013
Howl for Me
Nick Weaver
Since April is National Poetry Month, we’re pleased to run poems by a pair of younger writers who participated in …
03.11.2013
Galarshes
Jennie Lloyd
drink me, rain says
it’s hard to swallow the whole world dry
so drink me
everything tastes better
in Oklahoma …
02.18.2013
New Law Makes Local Poet Nervous
Jane Vincent Taylor
Others have book fests, opera and garden expos.
We have gun shows. Ammo. Freedom
and now more freedom: open carry.…
02.04.2013
The Falling
Preston Wells
Where I come from, rain is the same thing as love,
Falling rarely, and spoken about even less.
Daddy tells …
12.24.2012
Pairings
Jenny Sullivan
The taste of red wine and dark chocolate
Swirlin’ together inside my mouth is
Like smoke escaping from the chimney…
12.09.2012
A Year with the Bison
Erin Glanville Brown
Spring
The wallows are full.
Egrets range on bison backs —
colors rise sunward.
Summer
Their wallows are dust.
Bison …
11.26.2012
Driveway
Ron Padgett
Again I slid up over the horizon
and the lights of Tulsa spread flat out before me.
“Ah, there you …
11.12.2012
Critical Mass
John Brehm
Lifted their bikes up-
side down above
their thousand heads and
cheered
locked the grid
10.29.2012
1977 Seminole County
Jeanetta Mish
me and my best friend k.t. hurtled down
chug holed roads in her green Gran Torino,
racing almost as fast …
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