Welcome to the Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Archive
This archive is formed from all the posts from that original Ink Sweat & Tears website, it now consists of everything we have published up to the end of 2019. IS&T was founded by Salt author Charles Christian in 2007 as a platform for new poetry and short prose, and experimental work in digital media. Charles ran the site single-handedly, publishing new work every day till 2010, when now sole editor, poet and artist Helen Ivory came on board as Deputy Editor. The Ink Sweat & Tears website continues to run and can be found here.
You can either click on the poems below which run from most recent to oldest, or you can search for particular poem or poet, there is also a list of all the categories to click through. From Prose & Poetry to Words and Images, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, in addition we have all of the Poems of the month and Poetry picks, old blogs and news, award nominated, reviews and interviews.
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Prose and poetry
Poems and prose published on the website from start to finish.
Kitty Coles
Invalid Leaves, like raindrops, shiver the teal pool's surface. Airflow lifts gooseflesh on my bony arm. The woods arc up, a cavern of hushy voices. I limp and stumble on paths...
Emily Hart
third floor walk up let's take up a collection and have a lift put in says one neighbor as we pass on the stairs he going out for a smoke me pretending my knees are not cursing...
Rose Mary Boehm
We didn’t know we were poor Sometimes we went hungry. Mother made dandelion salad and stingy-nettle soup. Potatoes and carrots in water with salt. Mother had been on the train...
James Diaz,
Maggie, is that you? Lake house I feel so glacial inside of your architecture it’s like you don’t know me at all sometimes the window doesn't let in much light as if we were...
Dan Bowan
Hagler would run backwards in his army boots Because that’s how half of the fight would go, on the back foot. Such logic. Don’t lose power, keep your balance even on the...
Wayne F. Burke
* zen he went to the market zen he came home * waves swell and rise to a crest then flip and froth lathering the rocky bald-headed shore for a morning shave * fish sticks in the...
Ed Higgins
Learning to Drive Just take the mountain curves as tightly to the inside and as fast as surface conditions permit and the road’s edge or yellow center line allow my father was...
Herb Kauderer
looking up I color vision decreases as distance increases leaving us myopic beneath the distant night sky II sixty beckons on the horizon of September & it’s painfully clear...
Alisa Velaj
My Love is so ignorant My love drinks water from plastic cups. Leaning its elbows against the wooden table, Lost in thought, it watches the river going through the city. My love...
Vicky Morris
Ghosted It’s not like he’d planned to wake up after 23 years of marriage, to find the taps turned off, everything dried out on the draining board, no one checking the mains,...
Poetry Picks
Our favourite poems and ‘best of’ chosen from each month between 2007 and 2019
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Haibun, Tanka, Haiku, & Haiga
Haibun, Tanka, Haiku, & Haiga reviously published on the website.
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12 Days of Christmas
All the poems from our regular 12 days of Christmas feature.
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Words & Images
Words with images previously published on the website.
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Blogs and news
Blogs and archived news from 2007 to 2020.
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Reviews
Archived reviews from 2007 to 2020.
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Interviews
Archived interviews from 2007 to 2020.
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