by Emilio DeGrazia | Jan 30, 2026 | Poetry
Author’s Note: I was born in February in 1941, with the winter tremors of war already in my bones and therefore part of my personal and national inheritance. “Homeopathic Remedies for War Fever” seeks to address the ongoing malady that is war. It is a...
by Diane K. Martin | Oct 18, 2025 | Poetry
Author’s Note: In the late 60s, when I was a teenager, we were all anti-war—the war in Vietnam. The guys had to register for the draft as soon as they turned eighteen. The you of this poem opted to join the Navy, although it was a six-year tour of duty, betting that...
by Vaughn Hayes | Aug 15, 2025 | Poetry
Author’s Note: My poem comes from an ekphrastic workshop hosted by the writer and artist Jay McCoy. As inspiration, he offered up a cull of photographs with fuzzy origins. This one called out to me with its distance and contrast: the angled violence of the...
by Alisha Erin Hillam | Jun 2, 2025 | Poetry
Kraków, Lesser Poland (Małopolska), Poland | Photo: Alexander Zvir Author’s Note: This poem sprang out of the experience of crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland, seven months after the 2022 Russian invasion began, and while living in Poland, surrounded by the...
by Naoko Fujimoto | Apr 5, 2025 | Poetry
Generational Scars by Naoko Fujimoto https://consequenceforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Naoko-Fujimoto-Audio.mp3 My grandmother hid in a hole in Nagoya. My grandfather was a soldier in China. My other grandmother ...
by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan | Jan 22, 2025 | Poetry
The Marvels of Little Extents Our god is awake but chose to ignore us as a cloudemptying glass into a child’s mouth there were days he gifted us the sky as a culture plate we madestreaks on it & hoped a colony of stars would grow out of it ...
by William Derge | Aug 3, 2024 | Poetry
Author’s note: This poem is part of a series of poems I wrote based on the life of Fred Astaire, who was a complex yet sincere and caring man. In this poem, I especially wanted to show his empathy for the men who served in World War II, specifically those who had been...
by Kate Pyontek | May 24, 2024 | Poetry
In June, the apricot tree saggedwith squat fruit that fell splat on the sidewalk. Children jumped for the velvet orbsBy mid-July, all had disappeared.All, except juice stains on concrete. As if no velvet, no fruits, no children...
by Alexandria Peary | Dec 2, 2023 | Poetry
Editor’s Note: We’re so excited and honored to be publishing this excerpt from Alexandria Peary’s long poem, “The Pforzheim Quartet,” which engages with history and memory through the use of extraordinary language, image, and sound. When we on...
by Claudia Serea | Jun 6, 2023 | Poetry
Identified by Unique Manicure Author’s Note: this poem was written in response to this image—created by Oana Maria Cajal—which is both about the war in Ukraine and part of a collaboration project titled “Shattered.” Neptune Beach, 315 miles from...
