Every Sunday, we post a poem from Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. Over the last year, we posted 50 out of 250 poems in the anthology. Below are the last 24 we posted.

• “Match-Made” by Dariel Suarez
• “Surf” by Jane Seale
• “Starlings” by Matthew Haughton
• “I unwind the hose, send a light spray” by Elizabeth Brennan
• “Remembering the Original” by Trey Moody
• “Further Shores” by J.D. Smith
• “microcosm” by Eric Scott Sutherland
• “Keys” by Andrew Merton
• “To Earth” by Leatha Kendrick
• “Portrait of the Artist as an Anagram” by Alex Cigale
• “Leaving the Garden” by Keith S. Wilson
• “Bad Fruit” by DM Benningfield
• “Today I Threw Out Your Toothbrush” by Jesse Manley
• “On the Kindness of Strangers” by Lisa Zimmerman
• “Elasticity” by Ada Jill Schneider
• “Fe/Male” by Libby Falk Jones
• “Mute Zoo” by Dan Boes
• “On the Way Home from Lexington to Frankfort via Lesstown Road” by Staci R. Schoenfeld
• “The End of Innocence” by rob mclennan
• “Thirst” by Marilyn Kallet
• “The Core of Another Day” by Paul Sohar
• “All in an Effort to Not Think About” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
• “Brave Fly” by Bianca Bargo
• “The Zen of Mountain Driving” by Christina Lovin

Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems is a 316-page volume of poems of up to 50 words, including titles. Whether poignant, funny, tragic, or inspirational, each poem is always complete and memorable, representing a world larger than the space it takes on the page. This book features work by 192 contemporary masters of the short free-form poem.

What Others Say About Bigger Than They Appear

“There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because the mind is also a miracle, the lucky words sometimes arrive to capture that revelation and through it witness what it means to be alive. That is the gift of this gorgeous collection.”

– Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

Sections in the Anthology

The 250 poems in the anthology have been organized into the following nine sections:

• A Field Remembers
• Open Season
• Perfect Dwelling
• Portrait of the Artist as an Anagram
• Miscellaneous Merchandise
• Directly Across from Me
• Ritual
• The Meaning of Need
• When You Become a Body

photo “singing in the rain” by mindfulness from a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.

photo “Wayside Flower” by Alosh Bennett