Homesteading: A Poetry Sampler
We present here poems from a diverse group of poets who explore some poetic homesteading by tending to our most common interior and physical landscapes: the traumas of childhood, war and abuse, as well as instances of environmental and political degradation. Also here are celebrations of these interiors and exteriors as well. We hold tight to the effects of trees, trails, family, and wildlife whether to applaud or rebuke. We are honored to give you these generous poems with thanks to the talented poets who contributed to this sampler.
~Marianne Worthington, poetry editor
Yvonne Amey
These Thoughts I Lug from Childhood that Prevent Me from Becoming a Juggernaut
Jay Audrey
in my next life
KB Ballentine
All the Way Through
Jeanne Bryner
Letter from the Trenches
Russell Carisse
Clean-Fill
Julia Nunnally Duncan
Doughboy
Cathryn Essinger
The Willow Tree or Where to Lie Down
Jane Ann Fuller
Winter Wheat
Connie Jordan Green
Some Small Bone
Mark Allen Jenkins
Learning Southeastern Ohio's Curves
M. Daniel McCrotty
Duff
William Rieppe Moore
[The moon's cat eye is wide and close]
Matthew S. Parsons
Tark Hill Killings