Neema Murimi ponders a 20-hour drive back home to a sodden, dirty South.

Florida poet John Davis Jr. contributes “Crossing Middle Age” and two more powerful poems.

Poet Mel Buckingham from Nashville sets her memories of the 2010 Cumberland River floods to the strict rhyme scheme of the villanelle.

The Appalachian mountains are full of women who “become everybody’s mother.” This poem from Marianne Leek pays Christmas homage to one of them.

Will Wellman brings us four poems from his heart — and from his native home of Florida.