New Poetry

Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.

Liz Grisaru

Two Poems – Liz Grisaru

Two poems – “West End Avenue” and “After the Virus” – from writer and Massachusetts native Liz Grisaru.

Eugene Stevenson

Two Poems – Eugene Stevenson

Three Roses Bright red against the grey wall, deep green stems raise blooms fresh, open as the hand that placed them there. Petals brown on the edge, after the departure,

Talha Umer

Two Poems – Talha Umer

Two poems – “Soul’s Enlightenment” and “He Dreams” – by Pakistani Psychology student and published poet Talha Umer.

Four Poems – Daniel Moss

Four poems – “CCXXXIX”, “CCXXII”, “CCXXI”, and “CCXX” – by writer, painter, and recovery coach Daniel Moss.

Jasmine Harris

Two Poems – Jasmine Harris

Two poems – “Home” and “Anchored In” – by Educational Specialist and published poet Jasmine Harris.

Andrei Duțu-Buzura

Two Poems – Andrei Duțu-Buzura

Two poems – “Sell Fish” and “The All-Seeing Eye is Blind” – by Romanian lawyer and academic Andrei Duțu-Buzura.

John Franklin Dandridge

Four Poems – John Franklin Dandridge

Four poems – “Scouting Reports”, “a poem’s tattoo”, “Polished”, and “Garden of Need” – by poet and musician John Franklin Dandridge.

Margarita Serafimova

Three Poems – Margarita Serafimova

The poems – “The Leaders”, “Alchemy of a Bare Day”, and “The Disappeared” – by award-winning and well-published poet Margarita Serafimova.

Christian Garduno

Two Poems – Christian Garduno

Two poems – “Caramelized Hearts” and”Bend in the Stream” – by the winner of the 2019 National Willie Morris Award for Southern Poetry Christian Garduno.