Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
Three poems – “Aromantic Garden,” “I Thought I Was Crazy,” and “Distant Memory” – by Dutchess Community College student Alex Levantis.
Three poems – “Hope,” Too Soon?,” and “Muddy Puddling” – by Hudson Valley poet and fiction writer Denise Garofalo.
Three poems – “And Sometimes Something Else,” “My Slender Book—The Loaner Version,” and “Lasting Words” – by Albany poet Robert Harlow.
Three poems – “Thanksgiving in the Catskills,” “Train Time,” and “Old Poet Reading to Students” – by poet and writer Barry Seiler.
A prose poem – “Voluptuous Breakdown” – about body positivity and acceptance by former NYC English Teacher Shannon O’Neill.
Three poems – “Now and Forever,” “Expensive,” and “Another Day” – by writer, journalist, and poet Taylor Dibbert.
Three poems – “eyes in the dark,” “beneath the frosted full moon glow,” and “as the city sleeps” – by poet, editor, and social worker Tohm Bakelas.
Five prose poems – “The War on the Old,” “Ark,” “Criminal History,” “Crossroads,” and “My Apocalypse” – by poet and artist Howie Good.
Three poems – “A Moment Depends Not Just on Its Moment,” “Drawing a Blank,” and “Only This, Just In” – by retired teacher and poet D.R. James.
Three poems – “Mia Thermopolis Fooled Everyone Into Thinking She Was Ugly Because Her Hair Was Curly,” “Friendship,” and “I Hate You So Much I Wrote This Poem” – by Laura Jean Henebry.
Three poems – “Any Child Knows,” “1st, April,” and “After we’re dead” – by poet, writer, and performer Karen Fabiane.
New poetry – “Three Sonnets, after Diane Seuss” – by Albany-based poet and writer Liz Grisaru.
