Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
One poem – “What You Say / What I Hear” – by poet, author, editor, and Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, Sally Zakariya.
Three poems – “Revving The Engine”, “Friends of Saint Alex”, and “The Boy Next Door” – by poet and artist Danny D. Ford.
Four poems – “Grisaille, 2020”, “Physicists at the Beach”, “Past Life Experience”, and “Salix Babylonica” – by L. Shapley Bassen.
One poem – “When an American President Took Office, an Italian Hotel Was Destroyed” – by poet and teacher Andy Fogle.
Three poems – “You know my mother was from Corona”, “Dearest”, and “Letter from a Live Teacher to a Dead Teacher” – by Nancy Klepsch.
Three poems – “five-foot six of necessity”, “brief spikes”, and “death of a shop worker” – by Paul Tanner.
Three poems – “Interruptions”, “Two Roads”, and “The Distance Between Us” – by Southern California poet Melody Wang.
Two poems – “What to Get the Man Who Has Everything” and “Man, Versus Fly” – by poet and Pushcart Prize nominee Steve Denehan.
Two poems – “Just Sounds” and “Roar” – by Irish poet, writer, and educator Marian Kilcoyne.
Four Poems by Beijing-based writer, artist, editor, and curator David Harrison Horton from his “Necessary” manuscript.
Two poems – “West of Boston” and “Brubeck’s Bar #6” – by Hudson Valley poet, writer, and host Mike Jurkovic.
Four poems – “Root Center”, “Philosophy”, “The Only Café Around For Miles”, and “Semestering” – by Shannon Cuthbert.
