Poems Online

“Ode to the Several Species of Insect I Can Hear from My Kitchen Window” (video) at Button Poetry

Three Poems at The Rumpus

“In at Least a Thousand Worlds” (video) at Button Poetry

“Interstatial” at Sonora Review

“Don’t Ask Why I Stopped Believing in Magic” (video) at Button Poetry

“Junk Turquoise” at The Pinch

“I’ve never been inside a greenhouse” at Hunger Mountain

Two Poems at Banango Street

“Self-Portrait with Gunshot Vernacular” at Verse Daily

Recent Poems in Print

Three Poems in The Florida Review

“Pastoral” in Third Coast

“I Pray for the Miracles” in The Southampton Review

“Quantum Sister Never the Last” in New South

“Weeding” in Washington Square Review

A Handful of Mlekoday’s Favorite Poems

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Ross Gay, “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” at Poetry Foundation (or watch him read it at Split This Rock)

Dorianne Laux, “Fog” at Verse Daily

Kendra DeColo, “Last Night on Earth We Go to Wendy’s” at The Nervous Breakdown

Patricia Smith, “Incendiary Art” at Poetry Foundation

Karyna McGlynn, “My 3rd 9AM Appointment with the University’s Writer-in-Residence” at Rattle

James Welch, “Magic Fox” at Montana Public Radio

Lucille Clifton, “cutting greens” at Poetry Foundation

Hieu Minh Nguyen, “Cockfight” at The Paris American

Nkosi Nkululeko, “Not Finished Yet” (video) at Button Poetry

W.S. Merwin, “After the Dragonflies” at The Guardian

Michael Mlekoday snake author photo