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Oisin Breen
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INTERVIEW: Oisín Breen, Poet (by Hadley-James Hoyles)

Irish poet, academic, and journalist, Oisín Breen is the author of two collections of poetry. His latest collection, Lilies on...
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poems by James Lowell
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The Last Farm Stand and Other Poems by James Lowell

The Last Farm Stand She comes laden across the bay, and I am halfway down the hill to the ferry...
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Three Poems by Jonathan Humble

Dandelion Sun A child’s sun finds a dream in young eyes. In blinks of dandelion eclipses, refracted light reflects on...
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old tools
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The Kinship of Tools by Thomas Alan Orr

The Kinship of Tools When we bought the farm, the old man shook my hand, his grip still strong from...
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Jeremy Haworth
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Four Season Farm by Jeremy Haworth

Jeremy Haworth is an Irish poet and writer. In 2019, he started Charis Garden, renovating a tumbledown farmstead and walled...
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Vines
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what will be by Mary Silwance

what will be November has already made husks of what once was aaaaI work fast against nearing dusk the sky...
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Moon over house
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The Moon Don’t Care by David Estringel 

The Moon Don’t Care  This old house, a rattle of bones, settles in for the night— the lights of its...
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Skylark in the Callows
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My Mother Considers Her Callows Farm by Patrick Deeley

My Mother Considers Her Callows Farm From a parlour window I see sunlight creeping across the fields, and how some...
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Cow in mist
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Hailstones by Bel Schenk

Hailstones Why not slow down and pull up next to this black, sideways cow. Could this be a silhouette? Or...
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Dreaming of a Wildflower Garden, by Ross Walsh

My mother told me to mow the lawn. I refused. I pointed out that to raze the grass, to behead...
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Benjamin Green The Sugars of Existence
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The Sugars of Existence by Benjamin Green

The Sugars of Existence What he feels, he acts upon; What determines truth describes consequence. Aspens in the high country,...
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A Meditation on the Land by David Salner

A Meditation on the Land —remembering ­­a farm foreclosure. For Darrell Ringer, 1953-93 “Thank you,” he said, while the black...
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