The Pain Reliever – PoetryNow

After an artist residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science, Carrie Olivia Adams celebrates the lives of pioneering women in medicine during the nineteenth century.

Poor in Tech

I knew I was the only poor person at my tech startup because one time everyone else in my department quit or was fired in the space of six months,…

Modern Promethea

I was thinking about how not all women bear children, and some of us make people in other ways.

Senryū

Senryū (川柳) is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 morae (or on, often translated as syllables, but see the article on…

I lived in the first century of world wars

‘For Each of You’, Audre Lorde

The Driving Instructor

a poem by  MARION WINIK

Boss makes a dollar I make a dime

I have eaten the rich

Ode to Wattles

Sharon Olds