Tar River Poetry
Fall 2026

Volume 66, Number 1

POEMS
Heat Lightning on Lake Michigan • Elijah Blumofe
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 Wilson
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 (lithograph on paper, 1966) • Jim Dine
Purchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest). We thank the NCMA for permission to use this image.