The list of available poems is up! … over 130 poems are available…
Day Three Update: Pre-purchased poems have reached 120! And we’ll see additional poems be made available by poets who are reading today.
Still one day left to pick your favorite poems from the festival. All poems will be loaded to your page as soon as possible but no later than Sunday. So by the time you get home from BIPF, your favorite poems from the event will be waiting for you.
Day Two Update: Over 70 poems have been pre-purchased so far. Thanks for supporting your fellow poets! In other news–
Emily Hancock’s opening remarks about poetry are now available on LEAF. Better yet, if you pre-purchase a set of 10 poems, you get that wonderful introduction for FREE.
Also added today from yesterday’s readings: the selections from Nicelle Davis’s “Elephants” sequence are now on LEAF; more poems from Stan Galloway have just been added.
Day One Update: Over 40 poems have already been pre-purchased by festival-goers!
If you have pre-purchased poems from LEAF and want to add a poem from the list below to your customized LEAF page, simply contact us here with the title and author of the poem once the Festival is live and we’ll fulfill your order.
If you want to buy any poem you see listed below, click the Buy A Poem link or come by the LEAF table to purchase.
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2018 AVAILABLE POEMS
Already over 120 poems by 18 poets will be available…
[ Poets and titles will continue to be added as sign-ups continue. ]
Emily Hancock / St Brigid Press
Opening Remarks
Heather Banks
Heart Pine, Random Width
Sprouting
Cactus Garden
Late Snow
Empty Nest
Samantha Brown
Icarus’s Choice
African Fae
Holy Matrimony Batman
Pretty
Mud
Listening
Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Lilies
Praying for the Widow
Thoughts and Prayers
Takudzwa Chikepe
[Titles to be announced]
Nicelle Davis
Numbers
Wearing Death on the Outside Shows You’re Not the One Bleeding
Image Search: Poaching Elephants
An Etymology Lesson
Drawing Elephants
M. Scott Douglass
The Body of Her Work
Posterboy
The Day Hell’s Angels Rode Through Town
Emoji This
Bob Evans
The Sound We Make after Poetry
Addiction
Paradox
In the Shape of
Month without a Moon
The Things that Mother Said
Good Grief
Stan Galloway
Queen’s Rhapsody
Lançamento
Hat
Morning Hair
The Summer Elvis Died
Nathan Gunter
3 Days Before Epiphany
Winter is a Parasite
Summer
ER Visit
On Saturday
Sick
Allergies
When The Day Turned Dark
The Summer of 1990
Where Hope is Contraband
The Wild Heart
Kirk Judd
Rural Romance
Senior Took Exception
In The Cabin (with Doug Van Gundy)
Hill Sailor (with Doug Van Gundy)
The Ground of Eden (with Sherrell Wigal)
Communion
Joe – Baber Mountain 1990
Driving Into Green
Hiram Larew
Theming
Inside
Everif
Magic
The Power of Poetry
Annmarie Lockhart
Overheard at a Bar in NYC
On Borrowed Time
Something Is Always Swinging in the Trees
An Angle on Atlantic City in January
Circa 1975
Who can compete with that?
Wound Healing
Eve, Retrograde
Close Your Eyes and Think of England
10 Ways to Write a Poem
Kleber’s Apples
Rita Sims Quillen
The Mad Farmer’s Wife Throws a Cuss Fit
Turnips on the Table
Albert Russo
Dissolving the Masquerade
Haifa
The Day Animals Take Revenge
Dreaming of Yucatan, Mexico
Oaxacada of Jade and Gold, Mexico
The Curse of the Indian Woman, Mexico
Life’s Little Nuisances
Options vs. Conscience
Jeff Schwaner
Wax Wings
The Stones
Groundswell
Before the Moon
Dusk and Beyond
Five Devastating Kicking Techniques
Saproxylic
Where there are stars
Landscape with highway litter
Full
Autobiography of Yes
Jana Putrle Srdić
Fish
Breathe out, when you let go
Cleveland Wall
Dream of the Unambitious Mermaid
Elevator
I Never Think About the Bomb
37 Birds
A Bird, Not Moving
Exit Sign
The Durdle Door
As If By Chance
My Rogue Self
The Better Part of Valor
All’s Well That Ends Well
Lesley Wheeler
Pawpaw (Charm for Ripening)
“Recumbent Lee” by Edward Valentine
All-Purpose Spell for Banishment
Sherrell Wigal
Counting Cows
Poke Berries and Chicken Feathers
Sisters
The Red Dress of Poetry
What I Will Love About Next Thursday
I Will Die in July
Mountain Progeny
Under the Milkweed (after Dylan Thomas)
Funeral Roads
Nameless Bird in the Rhododendron
The Crickets of Fall
The Horses of Joy
The Firm White Flesh of Potatoes
Each Day is a Bird
Say I Was a Poet
Ed Zahniser
From Dung Beetles to Bingo
Rolling Stoned
A French Trapper Names Wyoming’s Teton Mountains
High School, First Kiss, with a Line after Ovid, Speaking as Sappho
Urinalysis 101
Treatment Plan
My Training as a Jedi Poet
Gerald Stern’s Goldfishes
Apologia Pro Vita Sua Biblio
If They Ask You
Elegy Near Daybreak
Dear Heloise, Dear Abby, Dear Someone
No More Duct Tape Solutions
Just Work On
Entangled Particles
Taking Stock of Feelings
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TITLES FROM THE 2017 BIPF (these poems are no longer available for purchase):
Heather Banks
Only in America
The Dark, Quiet Place
Clouds–Links and Diviners
Sam Brown
The Girl with the Pikachu Sweatshirt
Icarus’s Choice
Letter to My Former Self
My Doll’s House
During the Snowstorm
Stretch
Ivy Prince
Angela Marie Carter
Wingspan
Blueing
Dwight Clarke / The Mighty Ginsu
Blood and Glory
Hope
Slave Ship
Revolution
Great Mind
Do Things Change
Never Give Up
Linda Dove
On the Appalachian Trail
Eastward from Harrisonburg, Va.
Late Offer — in Decima
A Villanelle on Climate Change
A Night of Anapaests
From My Window
Understanding
Love Song
Mark Fitzgerald
From Cape Hatteras Light
Starting Over
Tabula Rasa
Winter Smoke
Twelve
Afterglow
When You’re Not Looking
Night Paths
Tiger Lilies
Nocturne with a Dash of Oblivion
Stanley A. Galloway
To Sleep
Guinivere’s Apple
Joshua Gray
Butterfly Effect
I Am Gilgamesh
Dream Not of Death
Mother Revolution
Hallway Painting
Symbiote
Barry Gross
13 ways of looking at open heart surgery
it’s been four weeks
Van Gogh’s Reunion
America, 2016
Valentine’s Day
Nathan Gunter
Driving Dad to Quadruple Bypass
The Woman Who Runs A Successful Restaurant
The Heat Death of the Universe
The Heat Death of the Universe, part 2
Venice
Grief
Before the Funeral
Hayley Ingram
Mortality
Clear and Present Danger Test
Kirk Judd
Art and Madness
Rural Romance
The High Country Remembers Her Heritage
They’s Music Tonight
Voyager
A River of Color (dodder)
The Poetry of Trees
Have They Now?
Jen Karetnick
Anatomy of a Shipwreck in the Mediterranean
EgyptAir 804 Did Not Die Alone
What Marks the Spot Is the Cost of Doing Business
In the Photic Zone
Trophic Cascade
Judy Kronenfeld
Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning
The Imaginary Doctors
In the Doctor’s Office, Two Weeks Before His Death
Aloft, in a City Again
Time Zone
Cool Santa Anas
Lives of the Dead
Ten Minutes
Sleep
Bread
Listen
Early Astronomy
Hiram Larew
Hope
If He Never Hears This
Don’t Tell Anyone
Better Seeds
Ten Years
How Long Will This Last
Boy Howdy
Render
Dawn Leas
Timed Door
Ditto
Gypsy
Day Job
Good Girls
Crying Summer
Kith
Joanna Lee
We try to keep the doors shut
A word, like a key, is a little thing to break
On the back page
About five liters
Annmarie Lockhart
Second Honeymoon
Regional Roadmaps and Redemptions
A Breach of Etiquette
Steeped
Once Again, in Syria
Ocean City Oncolysis
To Sir Bob, With Love
Eternal June
Overheard in a Bar in NYC
Andrew Manyika
Structural Integrity
Cedars of Lebanon
Daybreak–A Canvas in Concert
Make Up (Your Mind)
Ode to Bacon
Refuse
Space-Time
They Said Tonde Died
Wondering Why While Wandering Where
Trajectory of a Tear
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
For the American Dead
The Mice
Pastoral for My Brother
Arroya Piño
Jessica Mock
The Art of Holding Thistles
The Funeral & a Birthday in May
The Quiet Mind of a Third-Shift Nurse
When God Needs a Girl
Operating Dixie Cups
The Host
Jacks River I
Jacks River II
The Twins
Thief of Winter Lights
When Boys Have to be Oak Trees
To A Man Who Shines Light On What Is Fantastical
Hope is At The Intersection of 8th & Eternity
The Anxiety of Reinvention
Denoting a scale of temperature by which grief is measured
The Ground Beneath My Feet
Laura Patterson
Sister Agnes Tells about the Crocodile
Delaware River
Mother Octopus in End Days
Pomegranate
How to take bad news
Nonharmonic Love Song
Stretch Marks
In the Royal Blue
Predawn Eastern Sky
Saturday Night Yik Yak
The Giraffe
The Nihilist’s Prayer
Mermaids Unionize and Plot to Take Over the World
George Perreault
The Color Wheel
Room Enough
La Migración
What We Couldn’t Know
Sara Robinson
Two Poets Walk into a Bar
How to Love Your Poet
Jeff Schwaner
Dream, First Full Night of the Year
from Spring Songs (8)
from Spring Songs (9)
Thoughts in Early May
May 26 (Werifesterra)
Stillness in a Low Time
Thoughts as I Wait for the Thunder Moon to Appear
October 21
October 28
October 30
October 31 (the end)
Conversations 1
Conversations XV — to waking alone
Conversations XX — to the emptimness
Dog Days
Last Night of the Year, 955 Years After Mei Yao-ch’en’s Death
Amie Sharp
In the Aftermath of Another Fire
The Minister’s Last Morning
West Tennessee, 1980
Cutting Down the Old Growth
Diabetes
Train at Night in the Desert
For a Holdout
Taking Down the Tree
My Secret Poems
Trevor Tingle
“Do We Really Need the Moon”
East of Texas West of Louisiana
North Wind, Lunenburg Bound
Deep Down We’re All the Same
On the Sinking of the Tall Ship Bounty
Soup
After his Father’s Mistress Quit / Cleaned Out the Register for Crack Money
The Freezing Point of Empathy
Fracturing Light on Water
Sprocket Factory
In All Your Imperfect Form
Leonard Tshitenge
Welcome to the Congo
My Relationship with Chinese Food
Maryann Wolfe
Pica
Ars Poetica
Ars Poetica, Unleavened
Guidelines for Eating
Coffee Break
The Philosopher’s Cooking Lesson
Making Tea
Secondhand
Rules for Dessert
Dessert’s Desires
Every Girl Dreams of Her Frosting Day
Nicole Yurcaba
A Peter Murphy Kind of Night
The Pale Goth Buys Blank Journals at Target
The Pale Goth Fastens Her Dress
The Pale Goth Listens to Ukrainian Death Metal
Picking Curious Fruit
The Pale Goth’s Momentary Despair
The Path Goth Blames Prokofiev
Half-Past Midnight, Behind the Ghoul-Garden’s Gates
I Heard the Hell on the Eve of Christmas Eve
Robert Zachary
u went around the world
WATER
Brush of Love
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