Volume 12 of Heron Tree is now available as a free downloadable PDF (please click here). In it, you’ll find poems by Maria L. Berg, Marietta Brill, Ginny Lowe Connors, D. W. Cunningham, Julie Dillemuth, Kari Ann Ebert, Joanna Friedman, Kare…
Kari Ann Ebert drew on Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847) to create “The Doctrine of Fundamental Gravity” (click here to read) and “Upon First Meeting My Double” (click here to read). About the poems and the process of composing them,…
Wilda Morris created “Is This Vanity?” from the American Standard Version of the Bible (1901). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Wilda Morris writes: This is a 12-word poem, with the words drawn (in
Joanna Friedman created “The Train to My House” from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Joanna Friedman writes: The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite n…
Vidya Premkumar created [be gentle] from Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Vidya Premkumar writes: [be gentle] was written as part of a found poetry project on Dracula
Maria L. Berg created 2 poems from The Kybalion by Three Initiates (1912 edition). Please click here to read “Every Cause Has Its Effect” and here to read “Let Us Seek This Truth.” About the poems and the process of composing them, Maria L.…
Marietta Brill created “If Bees” from Anna Botsford Comstock’s How to Keep Bees (1905). Please click here to read. About the piece and the process of composing it, Marietta Brill writes: “If Bees” is a series of 12-line poems extracted from…
Kathleen Hellen created “in human language” from Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber (1903). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Kathleen Hellen writes: Focusing on his use of languag…
Robin Turner created [sing] from Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911). Please click here to read. About the poem and the process of composing it, Robin Turner writes: [sing] is made from a page of Edith Wharton’s 1911 novella. In January 2025…
Julie Dillemuth created “Aging with Scoliosis” (click here to read) and “Twelve Waves” (click here to read) from Louisa May Alcott’s Eight Cousins (1874-5). These poems reflect our invitation to poets to use 12 (on the occasion of our twelf…
Basiliké Pappa created “In the Long Slow Stroke of the Midnight Bell” from: Needwood Forest, by Francis Noel Clarke Mundy (1776) The Metamorphoses of Ovid, translated by Henry T. Riley (1893 edition) Favorite Fairy Tales (1907) The Wounded
We began publishing poems for volume 12 of Heron Tree in September 2025. They will be listed here as they appear on the site and will eventually be collected in a free downloadable PDF. As part of our submission call for volume 12, we invit…