#NATIONALPOETRYMONTH Special Issue -

One-sentence poetry challenge

"BONES"

"A whole life, interred in my bones."

FRANCESCA L ROLLE...

…is a poet exploring how life’s experiences weave onto the page.

"Thunderheads on the horizon, the sight of distant rain, and the light, oh, the awe of opaline light."

LIA PAS...

…is a disabled Canadian multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound exploring embodiment and states of being.

"AWE"

"HIDING"

"Grief's ashy flakes hiding under the cold skin."

DEBARATI SAHA...

…(she/her) is from India. She is particularly interested in nature, mental health, and the experience of grief.

"To summon the will to surrender to each moment—an exhalation, an exaltation—the spring wind finally warm."

LIA PAS...

…is a disabled Canadian multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound exploring embodiment and states of being.

"SUMMON"

"MARIGOLD"

"Bold marigold suns beam from the planters."

DR. ANNE M. LIPTON...

…has published poetry in the Journal of the American Medical Association and This Side of Doctoring (SAGE).

"In the rubble of the school yard, the fragments of our moral radar."

SHAUN JEX...

…author of A Catalog of Curious Creatures, is a poet living in the Oklahoma City area.

"RADAR"

"DETECTION"

"I see your crows' feet deepening, the corners of your mouth turning upward slightly—there is a smile under all that fear."

UTE ORGASSA...

…has been known to write a sentence or two for quite some time.

"A pinky swear solemnly made beneath the silver monkey bars."

SHAUN JEX...

…author of A Catalog of Curious Creatures, is a poet living in the Oklahoma City area.

"BINDING"

"BLOOM"

"Artlessly, as dawning bloom paints eastern clouds."

ANDREW RADDE-GALLWITZ...

…is a disabled former professor of Theology, Philosophy, and the Great Books; this is his first poetry publication.

"Truth bites like puppy teeth in your slipper."

JOHN CHMURA...

…lives and writes in the Pine Barrens of Ocean County, New Jersey, USA.

"TEETH"

"ENGULF"

"The valley, once engulfed in gunfire, hushes."

ANDREW RADDE-GALLWITZ...

…is a disabled former professor of Theology, Philosophy, and the Great Books; this is his first poetry publication.

"The sanguine color of passion seemed to pass them by, forlorn and melancholy as they sailed past one another on the rainy night."

✨🌊 s e a ⛵️ w i t c h✨...

…is a Boston-based suburbanite aspiring writer.

"COLOR"

"BREATH"

"From first breath, death waits, enwreathed by life, beneath consciousness, 'til life bequeaths our last."

TIM MORRIS...

…is a novel writer and a writer of novel poems.

"Nature tucks her sweet things in, in folds of silk and husk."

ANDREW RADDE-GALLWITZ...

…is a disabled former professor of Theology, Philosophy, and the Great Books; this is his first poetry publication.

"HUSK"

"SQUASH"

"…and the sun, sloppy in retreat, spilled squash on lambent leaves."

C. OULENS...

…is a poet and winner of the “3rd Annual Poe-It Like Poe” poetry contest whose work moves through emotion and atmosphere.

"The onion is diced, the garlic freed of its enclosure - soon the kitchen will smell enticing and a sauce will be bubbling merrily."

UTE ORGASSA...

…has been known to write a sentence or two for quite some time.

"BULBOUS"

"PENDULUM"

"In this stillness, where I forget time—the to & fro—on a reverie’s arm."

C. OULENS...

…is a poet and winner of the “3rd Annual Poe-It Like Poe” poetry contest whose work moves through emotion and atmosphere.

"Tremble, little one, in your balloon-joy."

ANDREW RADDE-GALLWITZ...

…is a disabled former professor of Theology, Philosophy, and the Great Books; this is his first poetry publication.

"BALLOON"

"CONTRARY"

"A sign across the wild lawn—the neighbour‘s contrary view."

ADELE GALLOGLY...

…is a Canadian writer whose work has recently appeared in the Bridport Anthology 2025, 50-Word Stories, Paragraph Planet, and elsewhere.

"A feint to fool the heavens, a shuffling of the deck."

ANDREW RADDE-GALLWITZ...

…is a disabled former professor of Theology, Philosophy, and the Great Books; this is his first poetry publication.

"FEINT"

"TORCH"

"A light in the dark or a means to burn it all down."

FRANCESCA L ROLLE...

…is a poet exploring how life’s experiences weave onto the page.

"With the intimacy of a vulture neck deep in gore."

JOHN CHMURA...

…lives and writes in the Pine Barrens of Ocean County, New Jersey, USA.

"VULTURE"

"CHICKENS"

"Cluck, peck, flutter, scratch: all the best words congregate with chickens."

TRAILER PARK ORTHOPOD...

…AKA Stresshoop, AKA “TPO,” is a cranky meat carpenter with a passion for the written word, food, cocktails, doggos, karaoke & unheard voices.

"Handle with care—the dismantling."

C. OULENS...

…is a poet and winner of the “3rd Annual Poe-It Like Poe” poetry contest whose work moves through emotion and atmosphere.

"HANDLE"

"CRUST"

"He claims to have broken through the crust and it must be true because everywhere he walks he leaves a trail of crumbs."

HUGH WATERHOUSE...

…is a former archaeologist and a longtime enthusiast for short-form poetry, from Sheffield, U.K..

"Each shadow a shift in the corner of my eye, a recognition of what can be hidden, what can be softened, what can be true."

LIA PAS...

…is a disabled Canadian multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound exploring embodiment and states of being.

"SHADOW"

"SPECTACLES"

"The spectacles of sunrise and bright sky, birdsong from tiny round bodies alighting in trees, your hands on my skin."

LIA PAS...

…is a disabled Canadian multidisciplinary artist who works in image, text, and sound exploring embodiment and states of being.

"The rift between us is unmingled toes and the cold sheet fissure down the middle of the bed."

TRAILER PARK ORTHOPOD...

…AKA Stresshoop, AKA “TPO,” is a cranky meat carpenter with a passion for the written word, food, cocktails, doggos, karaoke & unheard voices.

"RIFT"

"PLACE"

"There is a place within my heart where freedom reigns/ and I'm free from pain/ All I need is to find the key."

JOANNE MACIAS...

…is a multi-disciplinary creative featured in multiple publications and is currently working on her debut novel. @joanne_macias_writer.

"I knew/ I could never/ Escape/ Her final piano chord/ Or forget/ The fingers/ That/ Played it."

JOSEPH P. GARLAND...

…is a New York native and lawyer who has taken to writing novels and short stories.