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News Poetry

News-Stained Poetry Project: It’s Okay

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...

News Poem: “Could Be”

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...

News poem: UNTITLED (By the end)

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...

News Poem: ‘I have traveled much to go nowhere today’

Blood pressure reacts to such toxic swallowings

News Poem: ‘To Live in this Cemetery’

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

News Poem: ‘Magnetic Reconnection’

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

News Poem: #15

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

News Poem: ‘Decline’

  [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/196355083" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="250" iframe="true" /]   "I wrote this poem in Denver, CO, in the summer of 2013, when the story broke in the...

News Poetry PSA: Mark Fischer Poetry Prize

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.
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