Poems, for Now

Editors’ Commentary

War, gun violence, climate change. Drought, forest fires, Covid. These topics remain thematically relevant to this year’s issue of Poems, for Now. The poems within answered our call to poets asking them to speak to their immediate socio-political concerns. We thank everyone who submitted to this issue and, since part of the submission fee to Poems, for Now is traditionally donated to Philabundance, we thank each of our submitters for their generosity. We hope readers will find the poems presented here thought-provoking and moving.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

October 2022

Hayden Saunier
”Grammar Lesson, Spring 2022”

S. J. Pearce
”Psalm 144: Crusader”

Seth Rosenbloom
”Made in Michigan”

Ellen Steinbaum
”now that i know”

Juanita Smart
”Chuhuiv, Ukraine, February 2022”

Aiden Heung
”Dynamic Zero”

Cal Freeman
”On the PFC Ronald Fitch Memorial Highway”

Ellen Stone
”I am turning into plant”

Maya Kini
”After the Fires, a Wild and Reckless Flowering”

Mikki Aronoff
”Song of Dry Water”