ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of November 2025 ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of November 2025 Jennifer Blackledge Dana Henry Martin Betsy Mars George Franklin Julie Weiss Francine Witte Julia Caroline Knowlton Karen Paul Holmes Daye Phillipp…

ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of November 2025

Jennifer Blackledge
Dana Henry Martin
Betsy Mars
George Franklin
Julie Weiss
Francine Witte
Julia Caroline Knowlton
Karen Paul Holmes
Daye Phillippo
Nancy Huggett

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Idioms by John Amen Idioms My mother loved that saying, the devil’s in the details. As a kid, I somehow figured that if the devil’s there, god must be there, too. That would mean, as I saw it, that the holy & unho…

Idioms by John Amen in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Two Poems by Todd Wynn A Quiet Kind of Violence Reason combs through wreckage looking for order where none exists. Reason has never bled, never slept in chairs beside a diagnosis, planned a funeral like shopping from a c…

Two Poems by Todd Wynn in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Two Poems by Kathryn Jordan “Invasion From Within” One of the 600 generals is my father. There he is, furrowed brow, staring at the back of another general’s head. My father likes to think about value. He said he …

Two Poems by Kathryn Jordan in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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SUMMER HEAT by Doug Fritock SUMMER HEAT — after ‘When I Was Conceived’ by Michael Ryan It was 1976, and July. America was celebrating its birthday. Bicentennial flags were draped from porches, and our national bird had been l…

SUMMER HEAT by Doug Fritock in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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ONE ART’s Nominations for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards ONE ART’s Nominations for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards Kai Coggin – I AM MY OWN COUNTRY NOW Abby E. Murray – I Can’t Find My Gender Julie Weiss – Dear Daughter,  Sean Gla…

ONE ART’s Nominations for the 2026 Monarch Queer Literary Awards

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Today in ONE ART, we feature poems by Christy Prahl and Kari Gunter-Seymour

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Plastics by Christy Prahl Plastics My mother throws a Tupperware party. Only two women come, eating their body weight in deviled eggs, listening to a consultant pitch them canister sets, colanders, lemonade pitchers. The fi…

Plastics by Christy Prahl in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Fortune Cookie by Kari Gunter-Seymour Fortune Cookie Who knows how long that crisp-wannabe confection huddled in the side pocket of my car door, or what karmic labyrinth brought me to this piebald prophesy, my delight at my find border…

Fortune Cookie by Kari Gunter-Seymour in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Since Thanksgiving is a day of abundance, it seems fitting that we are offering poems by three poets today in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

I hope you'll find the Thanksgiving spirit you need in poems by Jen Soong, Betsy Mars, and Lana Hechtman Ayers

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And in the end, what does a life add up to? by Jen Soong And in the end, what does a life add up to? Birthday candles, sacred wishes, surprise thunderstorms, impromptu dance parties, surreptitious kisses under the bleachers, skinned knees, scars only you…

And in the end, what does a life add up to? by Jen Soong in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Free from Want by Lana Hechtman Ayers Free from Want I never understood why my mother ordered less pastrami than corned beef for Thanksgiving, since it was pastrami, oozing grease like a Texas oil derrick, that was more popular, devour…

Free from Want by Lana Hechtman Ayers in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Like Schrödinger’s Cat by Betsy Mars Like Schrödinger’s Cat he both was and wasn’t dead, when we walked by, children in tow, and he curled up, blocked the sidewalk, either passed out drunk from too much the night before, o…

Like Schrödinger’s Cat by Betsy Mars in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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The Knot by Gloria Heffernan The Knot A writhing lock of Medusa’s hair erupts from the center of the skein. Unruly strands clenched like a fist, stand between the crochet hook and the almost-finished blanket. It would be so ea…

The Knot by Gloria Heffernan in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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ONE ART’s 2026 Best Microfiction Nominations ONE ART’s 2026 Best Microfiction Nominations Erin Murphy – Insomnia Chronicles XXIII Howie Good – Shadows and Ghosts John Amen – Hide & Seek Linda Laderman – A morning with my dead father Laura…

ONE ART’s 2026 Best Microfiction Nominations

Erin Murphy – Insomnia Chronicles XXIII
Howie Good – Shadows and Ghosts
John Amen – Hide & Seek
Linda Laderman – A morning with my dead father
Laura Daniels – Artillery Shelling

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The One Story by Philip Terman The One Story Little League all-star game, I hit a homerun over the fence. My father abandoned the bleachers for the sidelines and after I crossed home plate lifted me up onto his six foot four sho…

The One Story by Philip Terman in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Writers! Who are the best litmags of 2025? CHILL SUBS®

It’s back 😏

Nominate Your Favorite Lit Mags of 2025 through this form ⬇️

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Let’s love on some editors, folks. They freakin’ deserve it!

A Pangolin Rolls Up in a Box at Airport Customs by Dana Henry Martin A Pangolin Rolls Up in a Box at Airport Customs        More than a million pangolins were caught from the wild        between 2…

A Pangolin Rolls Up in a Box at Airport Customs by Dana Henry Martin in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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A fractured leg / was a week’s worth of breakfast

Red Things by Ann Kammerer Red Things Right before Mom left Dad and moved out-of-town, she started buying all sorts of red things, things like red shoes, red earrings, red shirts, red dresses, and a single-breasted red pea c…

Red Things by Ann Kammerer in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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Utterly blown away to be nominated for a #pushcart by a poetry journal that has, in the last year, published the likes of Kim Addonizio. 😭 🙏 All my gratitude to the editors of @oneart.bsky.social 🤗

ONE ART’s 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominations ONE ART’s 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominations Moudi Sbeity – Whale Shark Morrow Dowdle – And Then, We Hear It Veronica Tucker – Once, on the Oncology Floor Hilary Sideris – Net Worth Francesca Leader –…

ONE ART’s 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominations

Moudi Sbeity – Whale Shark
Morrow Dowdle – And Then, We Hear It
Veronica Tucker – Once, on the Oncology Floor
Hilary Sideris – Net Worth
Francesca Leader – Weights & Measures
Anne Starling – Conversations with My Son

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Smoke Inhalation by Samn Stockwell Smoke Inhalation I give extra money to the workers at the laundromat because one died at 24 and in remembering the contusions of her past and the gap of her future, I am pretending to believe in th…

Smoke Inhalation by Samn Stockwell in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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YouTube video by Greg Lehman Moon Beams #24 - Mark Danowsky

I hope you'll check out this interview and let me know your thoughts ~

Moon Beams #24 - Mark Danowsky

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Today in ONE ART, we feature poems by Julia Caroline Knowlton & Joemario Umana

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Pennies by Julia Caroline Knowlton Pennies Now that none will be minted anymore, what will I give you for your thoughts? How will I know what is saved and earned, how to be wise compared to pound foolish? Will I give two of somethin…

Pennies by Julia Caroline Knowlton in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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September Like Sunflowers At Sunset by Joemario Umana September Like Sunflowers At Sunset I do not know how to hold endings, so I open the window and let September out and another month in. The wind heavy with wingbeat reminds me of all the days I hav…

September Like Sunflowers At Sunset by Joemario Umana in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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ONE ART’s December 2025 Reading ONE ART’s December 2025 Reading Date: Sunday, December 7 Time: 2:00pm Eastern Featured Poets: Amy Small-McKinney, Linda Laderman, Laurie Kuntz, Susan Michele Coronel >>> Register Here <…

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ONE ART's December Reading
Sunday, December 7
Time: 2:00pm Eastern

Featured Poets: Amy Small-McKinney, Linda Laderman, Laurie Kuntz, Susan Michele Coronel

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ONE ART: a journal of poetry (Write it!)

Today in ONE ART, we feature poems by Julie Weiss and Jillian Stacia.

I'm hoping readers will appreciate the interplay between these two poems.

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