Excerpts

From Issue 24: "Porous Rock" by Demetrius Buckley (poetry)

From Issue 24: "Porous Rock" by Demetrius Buckley (poetry)

Reading Time: 4 minutes "Porous Rock" debuts in Issue 24 of Tahoma Literary Review.  This poem moves with an emotional energy that draws from the ...
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From Issue 23: "Family Meditation (after Jacob Lawrence's John Brown Series, #13)" by Andy Fogle (poetry)

From Issue 23: "Family Meditation (after Jacob Lawrence's John Brown Series, #13)" by Andy Fogle (poetry)

Reading Time: 2 minutes "Family Meditation" debuts in Issue 23 of Tahoma Literary Review. I was struck by the beautiful construction in this ekph...
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From Issue 23: "Lines of Communication [Survival]" by Sue Scavo (Poetry)

From Issue 23: "Lines of Communication [Survival]" by Sue Scavo (Poetry)

"Lines of Communication [Survival]" by Sue Scavo, from Issue 23: 

"This is what this tree teaches me, the one hollowed, burnt,

twisted: when something happens to the body, it is not reason

to stop. Instead, keep all impossibilities. ..." 

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From Issue 22: "Nine Drops of Turpentine" by Alafia Nicole Sessions (Poetry)

From Issue 22: "Nine Drops of Turpentine" by Alafia Nicole Sessions (Poetry)

Dear Daughter,

If a time comes where there is no other
way / if you find that the world has turned 
bitter as nine mugwort / if you suspect 

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From Issue 21: "Expect Grace" by .chisaraokwu. (Poetry)

From Issue 21: "Expect Grace" by .chisaraokwu. (Poetry)

Our excerpt this week is a poem by .chisaraokwu., Expect Grace, exploring the ties of national identity. Let us know what you think!
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From Issue 21: "Mechanophilia" by Cynthia White (Poetry)

From Issue 21: "Mechanophilia" by Cynthia White (Poetry)

Reading time: Approximately 2 minutes The distinctive imagery in Cynthia White's beautifully constructed poem depicts a girl's first encounter wit...
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From Issue 21: "Unceded Land" by Issam Zineh (Poetry)

From Issue 21: "Unceded Land" by Issam Zineh (Poetry)

Reading time: Approximately 3 minutes
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From Issue 21: "Women at Shiva" by Donna Spruijt-Metz (Poetry)

From Issue 21: "Women at Shiva" by Donna Spruijt-Metz (Poetry)

This week's excerpt brings us poet Donna Spruijt-Metz and her contemplative and beautiful work, "Women at Shiva" just in time for the change of the natural season.
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From Issue 20: "We Eviscerate What We Love" by Sarah Kain Gutowski (Poetry)

From Issue 20: "We Eviscerate What We Love" by Sarah Kain Gutowski (Poetry)

In "We Eviscerate What We Love" from issue 20, Sarah Kain Gutowski looks unflinchingly at the animal part of ourselves--our potential for harm--that we often refuse to acknowledge.
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From Issue 20: "Excerpt from Americana" by Thea Matthews (Poetry)

From Issue 20: "Excerpt from Americana" by Thea Matthews (Poetry)

In this week's selection for Poetry, Thea Matthews tackles a complicated view of Americana.
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From Issue 20: "Litter With No Canopy" by Donna Weaver (Poetry)

From Issue 20: "Litter With No Canopy" by Donna Weaver (Poetry)

The best poems embody the content so that the reader re-experiences the feeling within the poem; this poem enacts two things simultaneously ...
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From Issue 20: "Objective Correlative" by Anne Starling (Poetry)

From Issue 20: "Objective Correlative" by Anne Starling (Poetry)

This week's poem by Anne Starling examines for me what it means to experience a sense of being part of this world, or in her words, "to be alive." Let us know what you think!
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