Mezzo Cammin: An Online Journal of Formalist Poetry by Women

Sarah Busse
"The mothers are searching for passion once again"

Barbara Crooker
"velvet avocado, with a curl of shrimp on top"

Jehanne Dubrow
"Perhaps her body cannot learn its grim / topography"

Annie Finch
"keeper of changes, we give and we bend"

Ann Fisher-Wirth
"The point drives home; we can't get out of here"

Dolores Hayden
"we form a family of keepers"

Melanie Houle
"Your thousand ships have run ashore"

Michele Leavitt
"festering in the wrongs they did / to me"

Diane Lockward
"The heart, a small god at the center"

Charlotte Mandel
"The middle class abides by catalogues"

Ann Michael
"like chalk marks / rimming edges / of the road"

Tatyana Mishel
"You could be any sin / used to love"

Jennifer Reeser
"Let raven, sable, rook be my disguise"

Wendy Sloan
"Ah yes, the French do everything with style"

Diane Arnson Svarlien
"Crimes of the past intrude / on every present moment"

Marilyn Taylor
"Wait. A miracle can happen here."

Katherine Varnes
"At the altar, everyone's an angel"

Terri Witek
"like oxygen, like countrymen"

Marly Youmans
"a rinse of icy water shocked my skin"

FEATURED ARTIST

Marion Belanger: My current project, Continental Drift: Iceland/California, is structured around the geologic boundary that forms the edge of the North Atlantic Continental Plate. I was particularly interested in the fact that this geological boundary has no political allegiance, was not determined by wars, by financial interest, or national demarcation. It is a boundary that cannot be controlled or contained by human intervention.

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