News Poetry

IT’S OKAY we judge each female body when we see it (don’t say you don’t do it we all know we all do it) here I am...

Reader Alan Gilbert sent us this poem in response to the tragic shooting in Orlando on Sunday. Check out more of our long-dormant News...

By the end, we won’t remember what happened when. We’ll remember hardly any of it. The only thing that makes it   bearable is all the blossoming. The...

Blood pressure reacts to such toxic swallowings

is to see the paradox of what we are / the fragile iron of our blood

The sun shoots something off, / and we don’t know why, or what / it does to us. It barely even exists.

Breathless, we are auspicious / food for another god. I assure you.

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Fans of The Colorado Independent’s news poetry series will be interested to know that a $1,000 award out of Telluride is currently accepting submissions by West-of-the-Mississippi poets.

Saying: Do you need anybody?