SCP Journal XIV Published

The Society of Classical Poets Journal XIV has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the SCP website between February 1, 2025 and January 31, 2026.  The Journal also features exquisite art created by living artists who are at the top of the fine arts field today. See a list of the poems and artworks featured below. You may obtain a hardcopy of Journal XIV here. After purchasing a copy forward your receipt to [email protected] to renew your Membership. Or PayPal $20 here to receive an electronic copy, which retains colored interior images. This will also renew your Membership.

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Journal Editors:
Evan Mantyk
C.B. Anderson
Daniel Magdalen .

JOURNAL XIV TABLE OF CONTENTS

Artwork: Welcome — Akiane Kramarik
Introduction — Evan Mantyk
Lotus — Margaret Coats

I. BEAUTY
Artwork: Blooms — Neilson Carlin
Mr. Bluebird — Susan Jarvis Bryant
Spring Snow — Adam Sedia
The Reliquary — Patricia Rogers Crozier
The Playland — Shamik Banerjee
Artwork: Luna de Amor — Mark Keathley
Timeless — James A. Tweedie
Wall of Ice — James Bontrager
Magnolia — Adam Sedia
Pollinator — T.M. Moore
The Elements Within — Cheryl Corey
A Summer Hour — Sally Cook
Magic Show, North Country — Nancy Brewka-Clark
To Once Have Been Immortal — Paul Buchheit
Hope — Jeffrey Essmann
True Worth — Margaret Brinton
Bleed, Saxon Blood — Theresa Werba
The Final Cricket — Cynthia Erlandson
The Book-keeper and the Bar-keep — Sally Cook
Upon Hiking Eagle Rock Loop — D.R. Rainbolt
Moments Matter — Gigi Ryan
Monsoon in the Jornada — Dan Tuton
Inklings — Peter Venable
Artwork: Hyacinth Blue by Steven J. Levin
The Color True — Advika Asthana, High School Poet
On the Porch — Margaret Coats
Like a Book — Jeffrey Essmann
Legacy of Light — Martin Briggs
Sunrise — Ramya Yandava
To a Virginia Bluebell — Lee Evans
Where a Tree Once Was — Conor McGinley
The Time to Give Him Thanks — Roger Crane
Artwork: A Time for Praise — Mark Keathley
The Ground of Being — Josh Mitteldorf
Home Repairs — Julian Woodruff
When from the Damning Writs — Ted Hayes
Longfellow — Kevin Parks
Spacewalk — Carey Jobe
Fireflies — Mark Stellinga
Nearly Home — Martin Rizley
Heard in a Shell — Martin Briggs
Song of the Heron — Ueda Bin, Yoshikaze Kawakami
Hoosier Autumn — Adam Sedia
The Flower’s Refrain — Ulysses Arlen

II. CULTURE
Artwork: Atlas — Anna Rose Bain
Galahad_2000 — Josh Olson
Hannah Duston — A.R. Pereira
On Charlie Kirk and His Assassins — Brian Yapko
The Measure of a Woman — Paul A. Freeman
A Poet Explains — Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano
Artwork: The Death of Samson — Gustave Doré
Samson’s Final Revenge — Jeff Kemper
Treasure Trove — Paul A. Freeman
Silent Movies — Cheryl Corey
Ten Rules for Living the Good Life — Roy E. Peterson
History’s Rondel — Cynthia Erlandson
Encounters with Death — James A. Tweedie
Black Holes — Beth Houston
Druthers — C.B. Anderson
Necrosol — Michael Vanyukov
Nature’s Paradox — Adam Steinle
Learning Curves — Susan Jarvis Bryant
Dog Eat Dog — Warren Bonham
Still Life of a Bouquet — Joanna Raja Sekar
Ulysses — Bruce Dale Wise
Artwork: The First Sun — Anna Wypych
Feeble Best — Warren Bonham
The Grindstone — Michael Pietrack
Sweet Idling — Theodor Storm, Bruce Phenix
Europe Arranges Its Own Autopsy — Brian Yapko
Prefab Tabernacle — Shaun C. Duncan
Watercolors — Susan Steele Rives
The Poppy — Akiane Kramarik
Artwork: Journey — Akiane Kramarik
A Grain of Sand — Shindy Cai
Lament to the Passing of Paper — Paul A. Freeman
Village — Jan Mennite
New Satanic Mills — Paul Martin Freeman
A Token of Espousal — Joseph S. Salemi
Ishtoka — Braden Chevalier
Single Room Cigarette — Alec Ream
If I Could But Touch His Hem — Rohini Sunderam
A Rant — Reid McGrath
Melampus: The Listener — Dusty Grein
Not All Angels Play the Harp — Roy E. Peterson
There’s Nothing to Regain — Satyananda Sarangi
Artwork: Canto 9: Celestial Messenger — Eric Armusik
In the Name of Whose God — Paulette Calasibetta
Distance Kills — Michael Charles Maibach
Just One More Drop — Laura Westlake
Bird Song — Stephanie Holden
Rain and Snow on Christmas Day — Lauren Leon
Gorge — Stephen M. Dickey
Short Poems — Russel Winick
Vilnius Opera, 1993 — Monika Cooper
The Swarm — Cheryl Corey
Real Poetry — Eric v.d. Luft
Cantarella Wine — Brian Yapko
The Noble Train of Artillery — Andrew Benson Brown
Artwork: Gen. Henry Knox — Alonzo Chappel

III. THE EAST
Artwork: North Korean Propaganda — artist unknown
Surviving the Cultural Revolution — Brian Yapko
Yeonmi Park’s Advice to Americans — Warren Bonham
Captured Souls — Twila Brase
July 20, 1999 — Maura H. Harrison
A Show Tonight — Brian Marple
The Legend of Zhong Kui — M.D. Skeen
Artwork: Zhong Kui — Dong Xu
Winner and Runners-Up of 2025 Haiku Competition

IV. LOVE POEMS
Artwork: Sue Ellen Korach — Steven Seward
I Would Say Yes — Gigi Ryan
Virgo — Patricia Rogers Crozier
Two Sonnets — Nino Martoglio, Joseph S. Salemi
Sonnet XIII — Jenna Tedesco
Practicing Brahms — Mary Jane Myers
Why Did I Kiss You? — Mark F. Stone
Riverside Breeze — Daniel Howard
The Tundra Swan — Daniel Howard
Eternity — Angel L. Villanueva
Sonnet 107 — William Shakespeare
Imitating Shakespeare: 107 — James Sale
A Waltz of Longing — Jacob Schultz
The Bachelors’ Debate — Christian Muller
Canzone at Evening — Petrarch, Margaret Coats
Since You’ve Been at My Side — James A. Tweedie

V. LIGHT VERSE & SATIRE
Artwork: Pop Art — Jacob A. Pfeiffer
Squibs — Kevin Ahern
Ode to My Plumber — Kevin Ahern
Snootsplaining — Susan Jarvis Bryant
Ink — C.B. Anderson
To the Venezuelan Drug Runners — Joseph S. Salemi
Rhyme Crimes — James A. Tweedie
A Letter — Lucia Fisher
Sophisticated Stupidity — James Bontrager
Boomerang — Russel Winick
Ogre Food — Steve Cooper
The Limits of Hospitality — C.B. Anderson
Artwork: Nikolo und Krampus — Fritz Schönpflug
Krampus Traces, Tracks… — Paul A. Freeman
Three Limericks — Janice Canerdy
Advice to a Young Man — Morrison Handley-Schachler
Queen of Chaos — Leslie Lippincott Hidley
Ode to The New York Times — Brian Yapko
A Sonnet for My One True Love — Aaron Nydegger
Family Affair — Russel Winick
Payday — C.B. Anderson
Poetry Legacy — Russel Winick
AI Dating and Mating — Warren Bonham
Artwork: Seated Man — Jos Ratinckx
A Sicilian Folktale — Joseph S. Salemi
To B or Not to B — James A. Tweedie
A Most Ungrateful Gnat — Scharlie Meeuws
Argument Avoided — Russel Winick
Spring Has Sprung — Roy E. Peterson
Squibs — Frank Rable
Anniversary of Nietzsche’s Death — Warren Bonham
If You Ever Break Down — James A. Tweedie
A Poetry Anthology in a Blender — Tony Peyser
In Her Fair Foundry — Bachet, Mitteldorf
I Dwell Within a Tidal Pool — Rob Fried
Artwork: Coral Dreams — Herman Smorenburg
Gruesome — Adam Wasem
The Bamboozlers of Belém — Susan Jarvis Bryant
Artwork: Sabbath — Clark Gussin
Give Praise for These Days of Old Age — Jeff Eardley
Lines for Your Valentines — Roy E. Peterson
Twelve Labors More Part I. — Evan Mantyk
The Candy Bandits — Susan Jarvis Bryant
Five Riddles for Mid-Autumn 2025 — Evan Mantyk

VI. Essays
Artwork: Francesco and Jack — Mario Loprete
Reading Poems Live on the Radio — Mark F. Stone
Harry Thurston Peck — Joseph S. Salemi
Classical Chinese Poetry — Adam Sedia
Artwork: Li Shimin — Fei Meng
Artwork: Li Shimin — Fei Meng
Artwork: St. Margaret & the Dragon — Paul Erlandson