Poetry

no clock or calendar counts nor contains / shame.

Three poems by Katie Berta

Winners of our 22-word poetry contest include Diane Gottlieb, Angela Acosta, Fatima van Hattum, and Julia Watson.

Winner of our 2022-word poetry contest.

Common rez courtesy means the passenger opens the gate / while the driver passes through 

It’s not the leather-smelling shelves at Hoglund’s / or the boots I haven’t learned to walk in.

'Outside Camilla' and 'Storm'

She asked when she could come to the hospital to see her new niece

I urge like a red lacquered / fingernail tapping a car / window, rat-tat-tat-ing, exclaiming / over there! faster than words

presume you bite a tomato the same way a man chomps an apple