Tag: poetry

Icicles drip from a tenement fire escape/Sheets of snowdust skid off a sloped roof,/surprising pedestrians with a freezing shower

The refugees came to our neighborhood/from anyplace else but here.

Inspired by the sentencing of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooter.

New Year’s eve midnight cheer/Surges into the brand new year

Following this public reading, passersby will be able to welcome the first days of fall with a poetry walk.

Growing up on Riverside Drive is not like growing up anywhere else in the city. There

They took it away/ must have been in the blue of night and

This is a birthday present to my granddaughter, whose initials are S.E.D. and who applied to 26 colleges. Lives

WSR has received a number of poetry submissions recently. The latest came

Every year for hundreds of years against all odds, despite torrential rain and

May 23, 2016 Weather: Partly cloudy, with a high of 74 degrees.

We don't tend to publish poetry in the West Side Rag, but poet Kit T. sent in the ode below and we couldn't resist. Enjoy!