Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology of Present Day Best Poems (1) (Volume 1)

This anthology carries works of 50 leading contemporary poets: Adrienne Wolfert Point of View 1 Al Beck LIFE MEASURED 2 Alan Lindsay Your Name 3 Allison Grayhurst Hard Pressed 4 Andrea McKenzie Raine An Empty Chair 5 Ashley Morford Failure 6-7 Bill Costley FULL MOON 8 Bobbi Rudin PILGRIMAGE 9 Brenda Saunders New York sonnet 10 Candice James RISHIKESH 11-12 Carl Scharwath Empty Surrender 13 Carol Smallwood The Skeleton 14 Changming Yuan Stillness 15 Charles A. Taormina LAMENT FOR A SECOND FOREST, LOST 16-17 Christina Murphy Down to the rivers of gold 18 David Garrett Izzo Poems and Bones 19 Deepak Chaswal Freedom 20 E. Sunny Greer HOUSE 21 Gary Forster DAD 22 Ilya Prints Your Old Home 23-24 Iulia Gherghei Dear destiny 25 Jefferson Holdridge Guilt 26-27 Jeffrey Park WHEN IT COMES 28 Jennifer C. Wolfe Flower Child 29 Joan Colby CLIO ON FACEBOOK, ON TWITTER 30 Jody B. Cutler March 30 (2013) 31 JÓZSEF BÍRÓ THE SACRED DEPTH OF NATURE 32 Judith Prest Telegrams From God 33 Katharyn Howd Machan HESTIA COWLES: Redwing, 1888 34 L E Barrett CATS IN THE ALLEY 35-36 L.B. Sedlacek Embryo 37 Louise Leamen Longer Still 38 Marieta Maglas Separation 39 Mark Saba THE YEAR I DIDN’T WRITE 40 Meri Goehring Dementia 41-42 Paula Ezra 43-44 Pradeep Chaswal Icarus 45-46 Pramila Venkateswaran Ode to the December Flower 47 Quraishiyah Durbarry AMBITION 48 Rachel Brunner Aldo Leopold 49 Ralph Monday The Bag 50 Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi Villanelle: Have You Seen My Gray Today? 51 Shelley Savren Old Injuries 52 Shirley Dunn Perry O Death 53 Stan Galloway Trillium 54 Stefka Dinkova Benisheva SKIN 55 Steve De France ERSATZ HUMANITY 56 Steve Troyanovich (in my dream) your face always lights the dawn 57 Valeri Beers Midas Touch 58 Zivojin Rakocevic (translated by Petar Penda) Bosnian night 59 Contributors’ list 60-72