Saturday Poetry – ‘Grow’ by Ruth Ellen Kocher This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘Grow’ by Ruth Ellen Kocher. She is the author of several poetry collections, including godhouse (Omnidawn Press, 2023); Third Voice (Tupelo Press, 2016); domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013), winner of the PEN Open Book Award and the Dorset Prize; and Desdemona’s Fire (Lotus Press, 1999), winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Award for African American Poets. Describing this poem, she said “at the end of 2020, I conquered some big life goals and looked forward to my future. But 2021 brought the end of a cherished friendship, then my marriage. In November,…

Saturday Poetry – ‘I Love You’ by Sara Teasdale This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘I Love You’ by Sara Teasdale. Sara Trevor Teasdale was born on August 8, 1884, in St. Louis, into an old, established, and devout family. She was home-schooled until she was nine and traveled frequently to Chicago, where she became part of the circle surrounding Poetry magazine and Harriet Monroe. Teasdale published Sonnets to Duse, and Other Poems (The Poet Lore Company), her first volume of verse, in 1907. Her second collection, Helen of Troy, and Other Poems (G. P. Putnam’s Sons), followed in 1911, and her third, Rivers to the…

Saturday Poetry – ‘Curious and Counting’ by Arisa White This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘Curious and Counting’ by Arisa White.  She explains “I came across this poem in a journal from October 2016. I was amused with its music and strange imagery—so intimate and precise and resonant with historical and religious referents. The poem invites you to be curious and to enjoy the sensations and wonder that it evokes.” Arisa White is the author of Who’s Your Daddy (Augury Books, 2021). A Cave Canem fellow, White serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press, and is an assistant professor of English and…

Saturday Poetry – ‘She Told Me the Earth Loves Us’ by Anne Haven McDonnell This week’s Saturday Poetry brings you the soul-stirring poem titled ‘She Told Me the Earth Loves Us’ by Anne Haven McDonnell.  She is the author of Breath on a Coal (Middle Creek Press, 2022) and Living with Wolves (Split Rock Press, 2020). She teaches creative writing and climate justice at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. For this edition of Saturday Poetry, we have paired Haven McDonnell’s emotive words with mobile art by the talented @c.serrano.photography with the captivating artwork complementing the poem’s essence beautifully, creating a symphony of emotions. To view the others we have published…