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Intro
Are you participating in Escapril? Tag us @karenkelsaydavies in your poem-a-day posts if so, we love to share our authors’ inspiration! Pl...
March Horizons
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Nominated covers by Shay Culligan for the Eric Hoffer Award. (@karenkelsaydavies)...
Form Fundamentals
Introduction
An editing project I worked on recently got me thinking about form again. Structure is a huge draw to poetry as an art form, s...
Season of Change
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Season of Change
Highlights:
Print copies of The Orchards: Winter 2023 now available!
Delisa left her role at...
Dancing in December
Advent
Dark times. December.
Earth’s axis on the slant
and the minutes fall from the day
a few at a time.
So we outsleep the dark,
sleepwalk...
November always seemed to me...
Introduction
Our theme this month derives from none other than Emily Dickinson, not a poem of her’s but rather a prosaic letter to a friend she pe...
O hushed October
October
O hushed October morning mild,Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;To-morrow's wind, if it be wild,Should waste them all.The crows abo...
September Spectacular
Check out the new Poetic Excellence section to discover more of what makes our first blog of the ’bers so spectacular!
— Olivia Loftis, Kelsay B...
The Latest & Greatest in August
Shootin’ Pool
a New Orleans sestina for Kendall Williams
Two twenty-two. Afternoon deadlock at Whiteand Washington. Sirens scrape Thirteenth...
Reach For July
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Dale Cottingham’s “Midwest Hymns” are indeed true songs of praise. Though not religious, as the cover image of a church may imply, his po...
Tune In To June
Why We are Here
by Lisa St. JohnWhy can't we wonderabout whatis?Too close, thismagnificent realityof existence? We focuson the destiny of starligh...
KB Poets MAY host a reading near you!
I'd like to give a shoutout to Volumes Bookcafe in Chicago for the "May" pun inspired by their newsletter's subject line: "It MAY be time for a new...
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