Tar River Poetry
Fall 2025

Volume 65, Number 1

POEMS
Hunger • Rebecca Morton
Origin of a Thought • Benjamin Humphries
Ode to the Comma • Finn Anderson
The American Redstart • Christopher Brean Murray
Bird Watchers Anonymous • Gerry Sloan
Mona Lisa Gaze • Gerry Sloan
The Keepers of the Bees • Joel Peckham Jr.
City Lights • Sara Rosenberg
Cento of Borrowed Light • Dagne Forrest
Abandon Cake • Michael Lauchlan
Unsent Postcard: Méret Oppenheim’s Fur-Covered Teacup • Lisa Pasold
Lying • Rebecca Foust
ChatGPT Tells Me a Fox is Magic • Tricia Bogle
Shelly, I Say • Caleb Coy
Accidental • Caleb Coy
Aftershock • Gabrielle Frahm-Claffey
Because I Did Not See Colleen • Tara Westmor
Reunion • Rob Cording
Net • Rob Cording
Retrospective • Daniel Brennan
Bullet Hole, California • Henry Cherry
Across A Dark Canvas • Scott Frey
Surprise • Skyler Osborne
Snow • Skyler Osborne
Ramses IV • Michael McFee
The Visit • Steve Kronen
Pollen Report • Matt Poindexter
Wasp Sting • Joel Long
Dormancy • Joel Long
Three Days a Gale • Gregory Lobas
Compound I • Gregory Lobas
Fallen Tree • Robert Cording
Burnt Sonnet • J.C. Reilly
Rewild My Heart • Sonya Schneider
Subway Sonnet • Aaron Landsman
No Beautiful Thing Without Much Labradoodles • Adam Scheffler
Infrared • Zack Rogow
Afterlife • J.R. Solonche

PROSE
The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (Review) • Joshua Bartlett

COVER ART
Loren Fisher