Tar River Poetry
Fall 2026

Volume 66, Number 1

POEMS
Heat Lightning on Lake Michigan • Elijah Perseus Blumov
At the Window • Shaun Barr
Quiet Art • Rachel Cloud Adams
Apology to Trees • Michael Loderstedt
Crud of Hills • Damien Uriah
Fear • Damien Uriah
January 2025 (One Hundred Year Snowfall) • Gina Ferrara
Forsythia • Ed Gaudet
What Happened at the Church • Donald Wildman
Kitchen Witch • Virginia Watts
Ardennes • Anne Broeksma, translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson
Salutation • Betsy Sholl
The Tadpole Pond • Dana Holley Maloney
I Half-Remember Passing Through the Bright • Cameron Brooks
Passport • Justin Hunt
It’s the County We All Hate • Linlang Zhao
Painting My Country’s Flag on My Son’s T-Shirt for His School Intercultural Day • Anna Buynova
Lishui • Dielai Yang
Physical History • Anne Broeksma, translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson
Timidity • Sarah B. Cahalan
Charms of the Anthropocene V • Courtney Hitson
Polishing Your Pillbox • John Willson
From Upstairs • Vicky Morris
When the Twins Were Born • James Miller
Natural Hazards • Kaily Dorfman
Caregiver as Candle • Nancy Huggett
You Won’t Hear Me (Scream) • Kate Fenwick
Ode to Vacation • Michael Dechane
[john box broke apart again. and again] • Michael Marberry
Ars Poetica Schmoetica • Christine Rhein
Pee-wee Herman Said It’s Like You’re Unraveling a Big Cable-knit Sweater that Someone Keeps Knitting and Knitting and Knitting and Knitting…. • Greg Sevik
To Love an Alchoholic [1] • Jenny Molberg
To Love an Alchoholic [2] • Jenny Molberg
Omen • Todd Davis
Lamu • Nida Sophasarun
Birds I’ve Known • L.A. Weeks
Crumbs • Ben Fowlkes
Cryptic Route • Henry Cherry
Winter 1946• Jon Savage

PROSE
Antigone’s Secret • David Lehman

COVER ART
Seven Days of Creation: Snow (1966) • Jim Dine