Tar River Poetry
Spring 2026

Volume 65, Number 2

POEMS
The Snake Charmer • Jennifer Handy
Reconciliation • Suzanne Matson
Ghazal for Flight • Suzanne Matson
The Amnesiac’s Guide to Memory • Romana Iorga
A Man Is More than the Mountain He Falls From • Miah Arnold
When There Was Beauty • Russell Brakefield
Life Saving at the Village Festival • Jim Daniels
Estimating the Probability that a Star in Andromeda Will Collide with a Star in the Milky Way • Richard Taylor
Last Times • Richard Taylor
Cento: Poem about My Father • Steve Nickman
Trestle Jumping • Daniel Lurie
One Small Step • Merrill Oliver Douglas
Ctrl+Alt+Delete • Maya Venters
Inside the Random Patterns Form • Jeanne Wagner
Take This • S.M. Stubbs
Watching the Pot Boil • Marjorie Maddox
eartheater • Wolf Baker
How to Kill a Fig Tree • Cara Valle
Window² • Kurt Olsson
Buckets • Kurt Olsson
House Repair with Birdsong • Susan Cohen
Spring Cleaning • Christian Paulisich
From the Workbook for the Interpretation of Dreams: Reflection On Symbology • Elizabeth Dodd
Work • Melanie Murphy
Dream Job • Alan Elyshevitz
Vacation Bible Camp • Alan Elyshevitz
Catechism • Joseph Landi
A Courtship • Leslie Hodge
Night Storm with Sailboat • Todd Campbell
Muscle Memory • Rick Adang
When I Think of the Body • Tina Schumann
Ars Poetica #3.5 • Sean Cho A
On Being Misrecognized at the Grocery Store • Sean Cho A
The Will to Survive • Jim Tilley
Transmutation • Zoe Boyer
In the Last Room of the MoMA Kollwitz Show • Wynne Morrison
After Rain I • Adam Tavel
After Rain II • Adam Tavel
After “St. Matthew and the Angel” • Dean Tuck
After “Swan Attacked by Dog” • Dean Tuck
Ronde I • Jesse Curran
Yucca • Dennis Cummings
The Mother Goddess Made Visible • Paulann Petersen

PROSE
On Not Knowing How to Start • Sunil Iyengar

COVER ART
After Rain (1990) • Maud Gatewood