Albany Poets highlights and features new poetry by poets and writers from right around the corner and around the world.
Three poems – “Poets Out of Service,” “Deep in my Couch,” and “Nightlife Jungle Beat, Bar Next Door” – from poet and editor Michael Lee Johnson.
Three poems – “The Return,” “Keening,” and “The last of the bright light” – by SUNY Distinguished Professor of English emerita at SUNY New Paltz, Jan Zlotnik Schmidt.
Three poems – “Invitation to Tea: The Market,” “Unchained Chain,” and “Desire Lines” – by poet and non-fiction author Edward A. Dougherty.
Three poems – “The Sun Can Be Blue,” “Extinction,” and “Our 20’s Are for New Religions” – by Berkshire poet and farmer Robin Chadwell.
Three poems – “Empty,” “Samsara,” and “what becomes of us” – by poet, short story writer, and playwright Lyddia Solomon.
Three poems – “Rose Hips,” “I Am Not A Stray,” and “In the Silence Where You and I Remain” – by poet and teacher Taylor Steinberg.
Two poems – “The Island” and The Labyrinth” – by poet, children’s literature author, and visual artist Marlene M. Tartaglione.
Three Poems – “The Shooter Says Goodbye to Her Love,” “The Captain,” and “Door Winds”- by Carlin Corsino.
Three poems – “Never Again,” “Ars Poetica: Giving Voice,” and “How Grief Warps Time” – from poet, photographer, and artist Judith Prest.
Three poems – “Eden’s Gardener,” “Green Leaf,” and “On Being Remembered” – by retired educator and poet Randy Sutter.
Three poems – “Practicing Agnostic Atheism,” “Untitled Out of Embarrassment and Necessity,” and “I tried to tell a story” – by Carson Pytell.
Three poems – “Like Mourning Doves,” “The Mirage,” and “I Wish” – by poet Lauren Burgess.
