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Bus Stop in Front of the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer by Kim Addonizio

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Bus Stop in Front of the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer

It’s the usual ruin—
shelter of scratched plastic,

torn schedule behind smashed glass.
The cement’s stained where someone

dragged themselves after a drive-by.
In the empty lot beyond, one

shoe’s been set upright in the weeds,
encircled with shards

of busted bottles that catch
the late light. You wait

while cars and lives pass,
wanting to believe there is a bus,

that you can hear it coming
from a long way off.

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Kim Addonizio has published over a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Exit Opera (W.W. Norton). Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life was published by Penguin. Her poetry has been widely translated and anthologized. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist. She teaches Zoom poetry workshops in Oakland, CA. https://www.kimaddonizio.com

ONE ART’s Most-Read Poets of 2025

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ONE ART’s Most-Read Poets of 2025

  1. Kai Coggin
  2. Alison Luterman
  3. Donna Hilbert
  4. Betsy Mars
  5. John Amen
  6. Susan Vespoli
  7. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
  8. Tina Em
  9. Kim Addonizio
  10. Molly Fisk
  11. Joseph Fasano
  12. Terri Kirby Erickson
  13. Robbi Nester
  14. James Crews
  15. Abby E. Murray
  16. Allison Blevins
  17. Erin Murphy
  18. john compton
  19. Dana Henry Martin
  20. Alison Hurwitz
  21. Moudi Sbeity
  22. Dick Westheimer
  23. James Feichthaler
  24. Karen Paul Holmes
  25. Naomi Shihab Nye

Note: For poets who published multiple times in ONE ART, in 2025, we are linking to the most-read curated work.

Nothing Gold by Kim Addonizio

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Nothing Gold

          Nothing gold can stay.
                    — Robert Frost

And nothing else can stay, either–
not the pay phone or parking meter,
not the coo and keck of the passenger
pigeon or the ambivalent lover
returning to his wife. A banner
saying Everything Must Go sags over
the failed restaurant supply store.
A plane takes off with a living brother
and lands with a dead one. Another
black car arrives at the gates. Dear
anyone, tell me how to hear
the sea’s consoling murmur
as it withdraws, then savages the shore.
Tell me how to love the nevermore.

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Kim Addonizio has published over a dozen books of poetry and prose. Her most recent poetry collection is Exit Opera (W.W. Norton). Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life was published by Penguin. Her poetry has been widely translated and anthologized. Tell Me was a National Book Award Finalist. She teaches Zoom poetry workshops in Oakland, CA. https://www.kimaddonizio.com

ONE ART Poems in Verse Daily

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I’ve been a longtime fan of Verse Daily. Since the early days of ONE ART, it’s been a bucket list item of mine, so to speak, to see poems from ONE ART appear in Verse Daily.

To my surprise and delight, this goal had already been achieved well before I became aware of it.

When I was informed that Kim Addonizio’s poem ‘Eschatology’ would appear in Verse Daily, I decided to check to see if any other poems, by chance, previously appeared. As it turned out— there were several!

Today, checking again, much to my delight, I discovered Cindy King’s poem ‘Hysterical’!

What follows is the list of poems (to the best of my knowledge) that first published in ONE ART and then were republished in Verse Daily. Much thanks to J.P. Dancing Bear (and the Verse Daily team) for giving these poems a well-deserved larger platform.

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Kim Addonizio – Eschatology

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Cindy King – Hysterical

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Web Weekly Feature, December 4, 2023:   “Feast” by Robbi Nester   

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Web Weekly Feature, March 20, 2023:   “for luck: an Arkansas Sonnet” by Wendy Taylor Carlisle   

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Web Weekly Feature, November 29, 2021:   “This Late Thanks” by Hayden Saunier  

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ONE ART’s Top 25 Most-Read Poets of 2024

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ONE ART’s Top 25 Most-Read Poets of 2024

  1. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
  2. Betsy Mars
  3. Donna Hilbert
  4. Abby E. Murray
  5. Robbi Nester
  6. Julie Weiss
  7. john compton
  8. Tina Barry
  9. Timothy Green
  10. Kim Addonizio
  11. Andrea Potos
  12. Kari Gunter-Seymour
  13. Callie Little
  14. Alison Luterman
  15. Robin Wright
  16. Sally Nacker
  17. Trish Hopkinson
  18. Christina Kallery
  19. Vicki Boyd
  20. Terri Kirby Erickson
  21. Susan Vespoli
  22. Bonnie Proudfoot
  23. Scott Ferry & Leilani Ferry
  24. Martha Silano
  25. Joan Mazza

Note: Some poets were published multiple times in ONE ART in 2024. Links are to each poet’s most-read poem(s) of the year.

~ ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of September 2024 ~

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~ ONE ART’s Top 10 Most-Read Poets of September 2024 ~

  1. Betsy Mars
  2. Robbi Nester
  3. George Franklin
  4. Linda Blaskey
  5. Terri Kirby Erickson
  6. Le Hinton
  7. Liz Marlow
  8. Kim Addonizio
  9. Sue Ellen Thompson
  10. Michelle Meyer

Eschatology by Kim Addonizio

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Eschatology
No way this ends with everyone rising from the family plot
& rattling toward the celestial courthouse to be judged. Are we all frightened villagers?
Well, yes. Everyone’s cowering from something. Right now, yet another atmospheric river
is dumping stalled container ships of rain on the house, uprooting trees on the hillside
& in the Christ-addled brain of my neighbor, the divine horses are being brushed & saddled,
angels are polishing their instruments, struggling into their armor. It’s true
that things look more accurate, prediction-wise, if your prediction is more flooding & wildfires,
more monstrous bugs scuttling toward the corridors of power. My neighbor believes
she’s pure enough to be resurrected & Hoovered into heaven while the secular infidels moan
about science & get trampled underfoot. If I have to think about resurrection, all I see
is a Netflix series where reanimated jake-legged corpses shuffle through the streets
while the real humans kill them again, & sometimes each other, the compromised world
of the future pretty much already here. But how did we get into this discussion?
Someone brought up the apocalypse at the barbeque last week
over a few grilling chicken thighs. My neighbor, who thinks I’m the Whore of Babylon,
watched me disapprovingly as I refilled my wine glass of abominations
& spoke of God’s people as credulous idiots. She said she would pray for me,
smug in the knowledge of my imminent destruction. Oh, to be that certain.
I almost admired her. But like the Whore of Babylon I was
I told the dirtiest joke I could think of, & watched her grow red-faced & offended,
& there the neighborly visit quickly ended.
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Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of prose and poetry. Her latest poetry collection is Exit Opera (W.W. Norton, September 2024). Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. Addonizio’s work has been translated into several languages and honored with fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, and her collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland, CA and teaches poetry workshops on Zoom. kimaddonizio.com

Two Poems by Kim Addonizio

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Upstate

Nature’s a beautiful bitch.
Nightshade along the Hudson & in

an old stone house the floorboards
warp with nostalgia.

I have friends with hearts that stutter,
one going slowly blind.

Nature says Love me
or don’t, I don’t care.

Woods full of deer ticks & felled
trees from last year’s ice storm.

Poppies emblazoning a field.
Bean-sized shadow on an x-ray.

Deep red, & flowering—
Slut. Slit. Opening

& blackening the day.

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Aria Di Sorbetto

Welcome to the abattoir.
The opera is ending soon.
Get a taste of this raspberry tart
before the bad odor starts.
We’ll all get our ears pierced, then burst into tears.
I just want to take off this fucking bra
and stare drunkenly at the shining Mediterranean.
Don wants to come back as a whale, but careful
what you wish for: you might find yourself entangled
in old fishing gear, strangled by a crab trap,
dragging your enormous, exhausted heart for years
until you succumb. Sort of like the human you already are.
Missing the gelato in that little Italian village.
Ah, ah, opera! It sounds like a whale that swallowed a musical
and I loathe musicals. But that time Josh suddenly
broke into song in the Eighth Avenue subway
beside the bronze Otterness sculptures—the workers
and politicians, the alligator swallowing a businessman
whose head is a moneybag—a thin shiv of joy
slipped under my ribs and undid me, and Aya took my hand
as the train shrieked in and yes, if you ask me yes, oh yes,
I will.

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Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of prose and poetry. Her latest poetry collection is Exit Opera (W.W. Norton, September 2024). Her memoir-in-essays, Bukowski in a Sundress, was published by Penguin. Addonizio’s work has been translated into several languages and honored with fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, and her collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland, CA and teaches poetry workshops on Zoom. kimaddonizio.com