Most Read Poets 2021

Most read poets 2021 based on readership 

Two Poems by Byron Beynon

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/03/13/two-poems-by-byron-beynon-2/

Cantata by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/08/14/cantata-by-jeffrey-cyphers-wright/

Howard Beach: Queens, NY by Doug Holder

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/howard-beach-queens-ny-by-doug-holder/

Leave Meeting by Bruce E. Whitacre

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/leave-meeting-by-bruce-e-whitacre/

A Familiar Street, Unknown by Brian Rihlmann

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/05/13/a-familiar-street-unknown-by-brian-rihlmann/

When my dad created god by Jane-Rebecca Cannarella

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/09/11/when-my-dad-created-god-by-jane-rebecca-cannarella/

Two Poems by John Dorroh

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/07/14/two-poems-by-john-dorroh/

Wild by Paul Ilechko

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/04/11/wild-by-paul-ilechko/

Two Poems by Catherine Zickgraf

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/05/13/two-poems-by-catherine-zickgraf/

Two Poems by Mark Tulin

https://northofoxford.wordpress.com/2021/03/13/two-poems-by-mark-tulin/

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Cantata by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

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Cantata by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

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Drought robs the sycamores, plucking

leaves in June. A breeze pushes them

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into a swarm of withered pages

rasping anxiously across the court.

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Then stillness. They die back down.

Invisible forces carry us along.

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I am a prisoner of hope.

A congress of loneliness. A dry tear.

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An old motor sputters before purring.

Empty boxcars couple with a boom.

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Copying Ovid’s playbook, I hold out

for change. Home is made of wings.

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Thunder clears its throat but won’t sing.

The goal in life is joy. Today sun reigns.

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Jeffrey Cyphers Wright is a publisher, critic, eco-activist, and artist.He is best known as a poet and the author of 15 books of verse, including most recently Blue Lyre from Dos Madres Press. He has an MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College where he studied with Allen Ginsberg and also taught. Recent poetry is included in New American Writing, 2017. For many years, Wright ran Cover Magazine, The Underground National. Currently, Wright stages events showcasing artists and writers at KGB Lit Bar and La MaMa ETC in NYC, in conjunction with his art and poetry journal, Live Mag! He regularly contributes to American Book Review. Wright is a Kathy Acker Award recipient for 2018.

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