“It is difficult to get the news from poems,” but it is not impossible. When Mudlark has poems in its queue that feel like current events, they will jump the queue, as it were, and appear here as Mudlark “flashes.”
No. 1: Smart Weapon | R. Virgil Ellis | March 1998 No. 2: News That Stays | Kenneth Sherwood | September 1998 No. 3: Untitled | Henry Gould | December 1998 No. 4: Kosova: The Ghost Towns | Shqipe Malushi | April 1999 No. 5: Sisyphus Unbound: Six Poems | Bryan Murphy | April 2000 No. 6: Thorough & Efficient | Peter Murphy | July 2000 No. 7: Two Poems | James Bertolino | October 2000 No. 8: Family | Michael Neff | November 2000 No. 9: Borrowed Finery | Virginia Schaefer | January 2001 No. 10: the conversation | Diane Wald | April 2001 No. 11: The Conversion of Saint Jon | Risa Denenberg | May 2001 No. 12: Four Poems | R. D. Girard | July 2001 No. 13: I Can’t Believe It | Walt McDonald | September 2001 No. 14: Three Poems | Frances Ruhlen McConnel | November 2001 No. 15: Face Mongers | Matthew Rossi | January 2002 No. 16: My Mother’s Transvestites | Tiff Holland | February 2002 No. 17: B and N Ponder... | Shelley Ettinger | April 2002 No. 18: Angola Poems | Bryan Murphy | June 2002 No. 19: Atheism | Ronald Donn | July 2002 No. 20: Mall Poem | Francis Raven | December 2002 No. 21: Southbound | Stephen Benz | April 2003 No. 22: The Wilson Poems | Ian Randall Wilson | September 2003 No. 23: Grunt | Rachel Crawford | February 2004 No. 24: Prayer for My Cousin | Frances Ruhlen McConnel | March 2004 No. 25: Real Estate and Shallow Grave | Clay Matthews | April 2004 No. 26: Four Poems | Stephen Todd Booker | June 2004 No. 27: Atocha Station | Arlene Ang | August 2004 No. 28: War | Ted Lardner | October 2004 No. 29: No President Left Behind | Jack Martin | October 2004 No. 30: Sometimes and A Photograph from Northern Iraq | Brad Buchanan | March 2005 No. 31: Waters of Sight | Clifford Paul Fetters | April 2005 No. 32: Balance and Cellophane | Dore Kiesselbach | August 2005 No. 33: Desire, Hand, In Ithaca, and Fracture | A.J. Rathbun | September 2005 No. 34: The Sixth Sense | Christien Gholson | October 2005 No. 35: A Day Busy With Indecision | Derek Pollard | January 2006 No. 36: Paris & Oenone and Venus Impudique | Lea Graham | February 2006 No. 37: Oracular | Timothy Bradford | March 2006 No. 38: Dialectical Poems | Jacques Debrot | September 2006 No. 39: A Visit with Dr. Treves | Brenda Hammack | November 2006 No. 40: The Rumsfeld Sestina | Roger W. Hecht | December 2006 No. 41: Recap and Other Poems | Mark Dow | January 2007 No. 42: Short Retreats and The Unsolved Language | Gabriel DeCrease | September 2007 No. 43: from One Million Dollars In Play Money | Denise Duhamel | November 2007 No. 44: from Blackbird | Mark Edmund Doten | January 2008 No. 45: Milton, Louisiana & Homer, New York | Christopher Cessac | February 2008 No. 46: Seeing Things & Retho | Mike Chasar | May 2008 No. 47: Career Change | Lisa Badner | November 2008 No. 48: Sevenlings | Sherman Alexie | January 2009 No. 49: The Institute for Higher Study | Oliver Rice | March 2009 No. 50: Five Poems | Michael Tyrell | May 2009 No. 51: A Thousand Kim | Kurt Brown | September 2009 No. 52: Bee Fugue | Rebecca Foust | Lorna Stevens | December 2009 No. 53: Mexican Postcard | Nicole Broadhurst | January 2010 No. 54: Rice | Ellen Welcker | March 2010 No. 55: Broken Records and Other Formal Extremities | Laurel Bastian | April 2010 No. 56: Animal Outtakes | Chad Faries | May 2010 No. 57: Three Poems (from The New Melancholiac’s Guide) | Philip Brooks | June 2010 No. 58: Washing Dishes and End of the World | Janlori Goldman | September 2010 No. 59: Short Poems | Sherman Alexie | February 2011 No. 60: Four Poems | Drew Dillhunt | May 2011 No. 61: Lust After Hearing About Another Lewd Photo | Kallima Hamilton | June 2011 No. 62: Tomorrow I Will Be in Rome | John Paul Calavitta | July 2011 No. 63: Three Poems | Scott Keeney | September 2011 No. 64: Eating the Seed Corn | Risa Denenberg | October 2011 No. 65: Meeting Notes | Thomas Cochran | January 2012 No. 66: Poems from Haiti | Laurence O’Dwyer | February 2012 No. 67: Second Life | Stephen Bunch | April 2012 No. 68: Drops | Anne Germanacos | June 2012 No. 69: Four years left on earth | Nina Lindsay | July 2012 No. 70: Four Poems | Leonore Hildebrandt | August 2012 No. 71: from Cannibalism Among Girls | Danna Molly Weiss | October 2012 No. 72: Six Poems | Samn Stockwell | November 2012 No. 73: The New God and So Death Blows | John Valentine | January 2013 No. 74: from X Marks The Dress: A Registry | Kristina Marie Darling & Carol Guess | February 2013 No. 75: Hey, Walt, It’s Me, Steve, on the Internet! | Steven D. Stark | March 2013 No. 76: from All the Beautiful Dead Along the Side of the Road | Christien Gholson | April 2013 No. 77: Three Poems | Laura Da’ | May 2013 No. 78: from Bridge, a novel in prose poems | Robert Thomas | July 2013 No. 79: The Way We Live Now | Kryssa Schemmerling | August 2013 No. 80: Five Poems | Rebecca Foust | September 2013 No. 81: Three Poems | Tim Suermondt | October 2013 No. 82: Four Poems | Christopher Cessac | November 2013 No. 83: Farmer Mails Peacock Eggs to Elizabeth Taylor | Laura Sobbott Ross | December 2013 No. 84: The Harvest from a Field on Fire | Rachel Kubie | January 2014 No. 85: Cruel Relish | Philip Brooks | March 2014 No. 86: Poem for the Man Playing the Piano in Front of the Wall of Police | Luisa Muradyan | April 2014 No. 87: Tonic of Wildness | Barbara March | June 2014 No. 88: Four Poems | John Valentine | August 2014 No. 89: Fujita-San Writes Fukushima | Kim Peter Kovac | September 2014 No. 90: The 21st-Century Nature Poem | Christopher Cokinos | October 2014 One Whale Shark Eye: My Response to Christopher Cokinos | Greg Wrenn | November 2014 Haute Ecology: Final Response to Greg Wrenn | Christopher Cokinos | December 2014 No. 91: Night at the Cyclorama | Annie Kim | November 2014 No. 92: Lecteurs simultanés/Simultaneous readings Lily Robert-Foley and Camille Bloomfield | January 2015 No. 93: Bomber Boy | Idris Anderson | March 2015 No. 94: Valentine’s Day at the DMV and Mask | Lindsay Doukopoulos | May 2015 No. 95: Out of the Depths | Liz Dolan | June 2015 No. 96: from The Witness | Kelly Fordon | September 2015 No. 97: DisquiEtudes | Stephen Bunch | October 2015 No. 98: Your Turn, Children | Manash Bhattacharjee | October 2015 No. 99: Kindred | Michael Milburn | December 2015 No. 100: Little Anthems | Scott Keeney | March 2016 No. 101: Chase | Samn Stockwell | April 2016 No. 102: More Floating Tales | Jeff Friedman | May 2016 No. 103: The Empire of Desire | Michael Cadnum | July 2016 No. 104: Variations on a Theme from an Advertising Flyer | Stephen Cloud | August 2016 No. 105: Love Remains | Morgan Hobbs | September 2016 No. 106: Seven Dreams of An American King | Kip Knott | October 2016 No. 107: The Trembling Skin of the World | John Valentine | November 2016 No. 108: Kill Floor: The Final Poems of Arthur Rimbaud | Christien Gholson | December 2016 No. 109: Ash’aar: Selected Verses from Ghalib | Translated by M. Shahid Alam | January 2017 No. 110: Honeymoon | Edward Harkness | March 2017 No. 111: The Fist and Close | Diane DeCillis | April 2017 No. 112: Goals of Care and You’re Welcome | Daniel Becker | May 2017 No. 113: Stomping on the Threshold | Jeanne Wagner | June 2017 No. 114: Misdirection: A Poem | Stephen Massimilla | July 2017 No. 115: Breaking News | Gary Duehr | August 2017 No. 116: Prodigal | Mia Sara | September 2017 No. 117: Ode to Converts and The Alternative Merge | Ken Haas | October 2017 No. 118: Poems | Beverly Burch | November 2017 No. 119: Reading the Same Novel Seven Times and Pangaea | Spencer Smith | December 2017 No. 120: Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe: Postcards | Sarah Koenig | March 2018 No. 121: Food Matters | Abby Caplin | April 2018 No. 122: A Redacted Poem and an Unredacted Essay | Stephen Bunch | July 2018 No. 123: The Consciousness of Everything | Robert Wrigley | August 2018 No. 124: Inventory and An Idea of Home | Anthony Lawrence | November 2018 No. 125: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Rocket Scientist | David Alpaugh | December 2018 No. 126: The Pope | Jon Fotch | January 2019 No. 127: The stars, my son, know nothing and Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Grocery List Mary Zeppa | February 2019 No. 128: A Night at the Opera | Laura Schulkind | March 2019 No. 129: This Is Not a Confession | Peter Leight | May 2019 No. 130: Lady Gaga Sings To Us | Gladys Justin Carr | June 2019 No. 131: from The Lighthouse Journal | Laurence O’Dwyer | September 2019 No. 132: Litany of Travel | Marjory Woodfield | October 2019 No. 133: To Live and Die in LA (or New York) | Gary Duehr | December 2019 No. 134: from Sofa on an Ancient Sea | Christopher Cokinos | February 2020 No. 135: Elegy for a Winding Staircase and Epistemology of the Fall | Jeanne Wagner | March 2020 No. 136: Counting to Zero and Versus | Jeffrey Little | April/May 2020 No. 137: Unclaimed | Sherman Alexiee | June 2020 No. 138: Pandemic Spring: The Great Change | Beverly Burch | July 2020 No. 139: All Sales Are Final | Ralph James Savarese | August 2020 No. 140: Ode to the O.E.D. | Daniel Becker | September 2020 No. 141: The Secret Life of Truth | John Valentine | October 2020 No. 142: Six Poems | Fred Pollack | December 2020 No. 143: Four Chthonic Praise-Chants & One Lament | Christien Gholson | January 2021 No. 144: Confessional | James McKee | February 2021 No. 145: Lucky So Far | Will Walker | March 2021 No. 146: Notes for My Obituary | Meredith Davies Hadaway | April 2021 No. 147: Notes | Mark Dow | May 2021 No. 148: O Women! | James Reidel | August 2021 No. 149: The man with a sore throat and Annotations towards the abolition of men Tony Beyer | September 2021 No. 150: Kafka at Brescia, 1909 | Estill Pollock | October 2021 No. 151: Bread Loaf, 1982: Two Views | William Heath | November 2021 No. 152: Should It Come to That | Arnie Yasinski | December 2021 No. 153: AllHallowTide | Christien Gholson | January 2022 No. 154: To Persist | Chris Semansky | February 2022 No. 155: Living the Dream | Daniel Becker | March 2022 No. 156: Koans Cut from the Norwegian News | Allen Jones | April 2022 No. 157: Country Mulligan | Matthew Cooperman | May 2022 No. 158: Carnage | Marty Krasney | June 2022 No. 159: Culture | Marc Vincenz | July 2022 No. 160: Vagrant Tercets |Christopher Munde | August 2022 No. 161: The Pursuit, Crows in Snow, Local Freeze Neal Shepard | October 2022 No. 162: War Markets | Finn Harvor | November 2022 No. 163: Contributor’s Note | Roger Mitchell | January 2023 No. 164: Sauce reduction and Come my little words | David Sahner | March 2023 No. 165: The Air We Breathe: Ukraine and Lithuania | Rimas Uzgiris | April 2023 No. 166: Syntax and Apterus | Rayne O’Brian | May 2023 No. 167: Silicon receives an edict from God | David Sahner | July 2023 No. 168: State of the Human Address, Genetics, and Civilization | Arvilla Fee | August 2023 No. 169: Marble Witch and Astrology | Abby Caplin | September 2023 No. 170: from The Next World | Christien Gholson | October 2023 No. 171: Change & Status Quo | Jason Waldrop | November 2023 No. 172: Frames of Reference | Estill Pollock | December 2023 No. 173: World Turtle, Cosmic Elephant, Mother Goose | Marc Vincenz | January 2024 No. 174: Movement | Mark Dow | February 2024 No. 175: Three Poems | Glen Armstrong | March 2024 No. 176: At the Heart of Everything | Dawn Tefft | April 2024
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