Lit magazines reviewed at New Pages

New Pages offers a new helping of lit magazine reviews, including Bellingham Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner. Reviews by me of the latest Paris Review and Redactions are also included.

New Verse News finds poetry in headlines

The niche of New Verse News is poetry that comes out of the day's headlines. My poem, "Falling Leaves," is above the fold today at http://newversenews.blogspot.com/. Here's the poem:

FALLING LEAVES

World population reached 7 billion
on or about Oct. 31, 2011
-- News item

Chased from maples
by a stiff wind,
they rattle on the roof,
drift down on what was once
tall-grass prairie.
The lawn I raked yesterday
is half covered again.
Fifteen kraft bags
lean against the garage,
and the giant lindens
haven't even started.
How could there be
so many, when all we did
was plant some trees?