MoSt Poetry Webmaster

Author's posts

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 35

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets

Yes, we know there are only 31 days in August, but we just had to continue posting poems through the end of this week! Breathe. As in. (shadow) by Rosamund S. King Breathe . As in what if the shadow is gold en? Breathe. As in hale assuming exhale. Imagine that.      As in …

Continue reading

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 34

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets

Yes, we know there are only 31 days in August, but we just had to continue posting poems through the end of this week! Daedalus, After Icarus by Saeed Jones Boys begin to gather around the man like seagulls. He ignores them entirely, but they follow him from one end of the beach to the …

Continue reading

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 33

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets

Yes, we know there are only 31 days in August, but we just had to continue posting poems through the end of this week! Night-Music by Muriel Rukeyser When those who can never again forgive themselvesFinish their dinners, rear up from the chair,Turning to movies are caught in demonstrationsSweeping the avenues — Meet them there. …

Continue reading

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 32

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets

Yes, we know there are only 31 days in August, but we just had to continue posting poems through the end of this week! American Hero by Essex Hemphill I have nothing to lose tonight. All my men surround me, panting, as I spin the ball above our heads on my middle finger. It’s a …

Continue reading

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets, Day 31

Amplify LGBTQ+ Poets

Musculature by Carl Phillips The last dog I owned, or — more humanely put, soI’m told — that I used to live with, she’d follow meeverywhere. She died eventually. I put her down’smore the truth. It is the truth. And nowthis dog — that I mostly call Sovereignty, both for how sovereignty,like fascination, can be overrated, and for how long it’staken …

Continue reading