Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
Four poems – “Wilfred Owen at Twenty-Five”, “Pakistan”, “Distance on Aran”, and “Street Life in Ventspils, Latvia” – by George Moore.
“The Hill We Climb”, the poem read at the 2021 inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, by Amanda Gorman.
Two poems – “Diner Talk” and “Strawberry Princess (from The Rain, As It Knows Us)” – from William Pattee.
Two poems – “The Ascent of Money” and “The Dance” – by British poet and law graduate Strider Marcus Jones.
Two poems – “Memories Unspoken” and “Retrograde” – by recent Siena College graduate Clare Nee.
Two poem – “Time” and “Enigma” – from poet and student Royce Reeves.
Three poems – “Everyone’s Addiction Seems the Same”, “The Meeting”, and “Settling in of Paul” – from Mia Frisch.
Three poems – “My Father’s Daughter”, “Visitors”, and “Sweet Dreams” – from teacher and writer Shannon Spollen.
Three poems – “Private Dancer”, “Call Waiting”, and “Me and Plato” – from professor, writer, and filmmaker Dean Goldberg.
Two poems – “Having it” and “Fog Harbor” – from retired teacher Gary Weatherby.
A new poem – “Night Flowers” – by Bristol, England poet and writer, Mark Anthony Pearce.
A new poem – “A Villanelle for George Floyd” – by Cambodian-American poet, writer, and critic Bunkong Tuon.
