Feeding the Body by Cam McGlynn

Feeding the Body When I can’t gain weight, the doctors reassure me that the baby will take what she needs from me. Will suck the very calcium out of my bones, if necessary. She won’t starve. They l…

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Sorrow By Tsaulina Malazonia [Translated by Sallomeja Sandroschvili]

Sorrow By Tsaulina Malazonia Translated by Sallomeja Sandroschvili Gone is the night, unadorned, starless and moonless widow, Upon the roads she left a wet veil and a slumbering row of poplar trees…

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ONE ART x Quartet Reading

ONE ART x Quartet Reading Hosts: Jane C. Miller (൪uartet) & Mark Danowsky (ONE ART) Date: Sunday, August 16 Time: 2pm Eastern Duration: 1.5-2 hours Featured Poets: Sue Ellen Thompson, Melody Wi…

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What the Water Keeps by Alexander Poon

What the Water Keeps My grandmother washed rice in the same chipped bowl for forty years, three times always, her palm circling the grains until the water ran from milk to almost clear. She never l…

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Three Poems by Mirabella Mitchell

Thornfoot The woman had thorns for feet, which left two deep punctures in the flesh of the earth, and on cement made high hollow sounds like a glass flute tapped for attention. She had learned a mo…

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Readings

* >>> Check out recordings of past ONE ART readings on YouTube <<< * ~ Upcoming Readings ~ Save The Date(s)! If a link to tickets is not yet available– don’t worry! It…

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ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of July 2026

~ ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of July 2026 ~ John Amen Lindsay Ratcliffe J. C. Todd john compton David Lee Garrison Bill Garvey Lyanne Wang LeeAnn Pickrell Shawn Aveningo Sanders Lisa Zimmerma…

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My grandmother asks what size my dress is by Lucy De Maio

My grandmother asks what size my dress is I want to tell her, infinity. The biggest number. The sum of every meal I’ve missed. The total count of every bone in my body that weakened when star…

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Pothos by Mihan Han

Pothos The pothos unfurls down my bookshelf tracing well-worn spines the way you caressed my tiny fingers as we turned the pages together, soaking up words I had yet to understand. When I discovere…

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Payphone by Yoda Olinyk

Payphone My mother gave us each a quarter & with grave sincerity, said, If you get scared, find a payphone & call for help. We were about to ascend into the cab of my father’s navy pickup—o…

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Two Poems by Todd Matson

Outgoing Message Hello, you have reached mother. If you need me to send money, press 1. If you need to borrow my car, press 2. If you wrecked your car and need me to cosign for another car, press 3…

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Resistance by Mark Hendrickson

Resistance I stand at my window watching a baby bunny greedily chomping down on ‘rabbit resistant’ phlox and I wonder what has become of me * Mark Hendrickson is a gay poet and former psychiatric n…

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The Ex by Nancy Kay Peterson

The Ex I still think of him and want to ask: When did our cats die? What has life done for you without me? Are you happy? Your parents still living? Your sister’s children successful adults? …

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Substitute Teacher by Todd Wynn

Substitute Teacher An almost empty hallway smelling faintly of crayons and whatever they use on the gym floor. Classroom, dark and quiet, lesson plans laid on the desk. I write my name on the board…

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Two Poems by Iain Grinbergs

Panama City Beach I clocked into Dusty Dick’s hungover, having stained downtown with Bud Light and Captain Morgan, smelling like sweat and Lucky Strike, still wearing the eyeliner from the night be…

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Three Poems by LeeAnn Pickrell

Regret          “You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.”              &…

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Nests by Jessica Whipple

Nests we, two birds, were wrong to think all we needed could be carried in our mouths * Jessica Whipple is a poet and author of two children’s picture books: Enough Is… (Tilbury House 2…

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Spark Bird by Karen Holmberg

Spark Bird         Instantly, this inert thing jerked its head around, looked              &…

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At the Bar, I Use a Fake Name by Amy Le Ann Richardson

At the Bar, I Use a Fake Name The consequences are never worth it, but I go anyway, preening myself into a new identity. Someone who knows how to let go, have fun, someone who doesn’t give a damn, …

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Two Poems by Lisa Zimmerman

Mars Retrograde in Leo Look at him, sad bully trudging through the sludge of the vast galaxy he likes to call his own, though it’s not. How he wants to burn a house or a city or a continent, chisel…

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The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 204 - Poetry for Dummies

Don and John speak with author John Timpane (in a dual role) about his new book, Poetry For Dummies. John also talks with poets Mark Danowsky, Lynn Levin and Ernest…

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Two Poems by Bart Edelman

Ropes Thought I knew the ropes. Not to get tangled between them. Yet once the fight commenced, I lost sight of what I learned. Like Iron Mike warned: Everyone has a plan, Until they get punched in …

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Two Poems by Iain Grinbergs

Panama City Beach I clocked into Dusty Dick’s hungover, having stained downtown with Bud Light and Captain Morgan, smelling like sweat and Lucky Strike, still wearing the eyeliner from the night be…

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You’re a long shot by Greg Stewart

You’re a long shot Your genetic code is a hand-me-down from your 2 parents, theirs from your 4 grandparents, and theirs from your 8 great-grandparents. Just 20 generations ago, you had a million an…

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ONE ART’s August 2026 Reading

ONE ART’s August 2026 Reading Date: Sunday, August 2 Time: 2pm Eastern Duration: 2 hours Featured Poets: John Amen, Tina Barry, Tim Mayo, Francine Witte, CL Bledsoe, Kip Knott Tickets are FREE!(don…

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