Welcome to the ExpressMilwaukee.com Poetry Page!
Check here every Monday for a new piece from both past and present Wisconsin poets.
A note from our poem curator, Susan Firer:
For years, in diverse nooks and venues, magazines and reviews, I've been listening to and reading poems and liking what I've heard and read.
How many different types of poetry there are! Poetic diversity is one indicator of cultural health. We don't want everyone to write the same poem, do we? My poetry tastes are eclectic. If you don't like a poem one week, check back again. Wisconsin is rich with interesting, lively poems. It is my pleasure to share some of them with you.
Because of an already full calendar, we are not accepting submissions until further notice.
Susan Firer's most recent book is Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New & Selected Poems 1997-2007. She was Poet Laureate of Milwaukee from 2008-2010.- haiku
- Home Movie
- Cathedral Square
- Mt. Morris Cento
- the trajectory always leads to the bed
- The Truth of Angels and Ravens
- "I Have Lighted the Candles, Mary"
- \\\"I Have Lighted the Candles, Mary\\\"
- Shopping List
- Mythomania
- The Collected Works
- My Neighbor’s Body
- I Am the People, the Mob
- The Word of Lachesis
- Bite My Ear Tango
- Dirt
- Closed Until Spring
- National Ice Cream Sandwich Day
- To The Virgin in Summer
- At Seventy
- Gym Membership as a Cure
- Broke
- Grandma Walsh's Wake
- Love Hurts: Boat
- After the Moon
- Aoifa’s Curse
- MAKESHIFT MEMORIAL
- Phone Call to Rutherford
- Prelude to a Revolution
- Angler
- Tomato Truck Parade
- How to Help a Ghost
- Frankenstein
- Multiple Worlds Theory
- Midnight Terrain
- Things To Know About Bear
- Kosovo
- only lilacs will take you with them
- On These Acres
- from 100 Myoclonic Jerks
- 1950
- For Uncle Walt
- Fourteenth Blackbird
- Shadow Stash
- The Republic of Poetry
- As We Grow Older Together
- New Season
- It
- Lunar Days and the Tollan of the Heart
- Never to Return
- Burlap
- Theory Of Lipstick
- City You Won’t Come Back To
- The Home Team
- A Partial List of a Thousand Details
- The Hand On The Head Of Lazarus
- skycap kludge
- A Love Poem
- S,
- Black Forest Love Poem
- Turnips
- Swimming Into Winter
- Hello Legs,
- How It Could End
- Ah Yes, The Turf
- Marriage By Capture
- Photos of Alaska
- “When I think of the universe of or above growing”
- I Used to Think I Was Only One Person
- Mitchell International
- At Night in the Everglades
- Smart Animal Gorilla
- owners will give to get rid of you & good place to catch a train
- The Queen of the Birds loves Tom Horne
- How to Geologise Abroad
- The End of That Particular Fence
- Baghdad
- Kilo
- James Liddy’s Birthday
- O, Revolution
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