"You see, the problem with love does not spawn from your problems; it spawns from the way you solve these problems, and frankly you do not know how to solve them." - Lessons :: Poem, Evan Jones

"Every poet knows that even a trampled rose bares thorns to prick a poor man’s heart. That being said, and me recently bled, I’d still open a vein for you." - A Trampled Rose, Jon Avitua

"I have glimpsed it from afar, the old lighthouse which lay abandoned on the Louisiana side of the Sabine. No keeper lives there anymore, as buoys are cheaper than people." - Lighthouse, John Rutherford

"The colors vanished from the sky As the sun drowned in the sea. Night spilled over the world And drenched it in darkness." - Night, Shruti Singh

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From "Paper Plates," by Saelis Mercado, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: zpublishinghouse.com/collections/mo…

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From "Kite," by Julie Howd, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: zpublishinghouse.com/collections/mo…

An excerpt from “Dad’s Shoebox,” by Will Burnham, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

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An excerpt from “Kite,” by Julie Howd, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

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An excerpt from “Love,” by Briseida, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “Kite,” by Julie Howd, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

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An excerpt from “No Such Thing as an Undisturbed Creeper,” by Anneysa Gaille, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018 West Region: bit.ly/AEP2018WestReg…

An excerpt from “Ode to the Whip-Poor-Will,” by Nicholas Otranto, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: West Region. (bit.ly/AEP2018WestReg…)

An excerpt from “A Dream so Real,” by Bruno Thomas, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: West Region. (bit.ly/AEP2018WestReg…)