NatureCulture (TM) is delighted to announce the winners of our 2026 Poetry Award judged by CMarie Fuhrman! First place winner is erin feldman with "Kissing Earth is Like"; second: Joan Hofmann "Go On"; third: Hiram Larew "Walk Morning"; fourth: Laura Rodley "Begin the Morning". Congratulations to all! Please join us for a reading in which all participants can read (as long as there's room) on June 14th, 2026 1:00pm eastern time:. To read the winning poems and for more informa

Larew's poem, Clatter , which first appeared in 21st Century Flow , reappeared as part of the 2026 Poetry Downtown Rutland project in Vermont. Thanks to Bianca Zanella and her colleagues at Phoenix Books for organizing this 6th annual display of 60 poems from around the world in shop windows throughout downtown Rutland during April. Billy Brown of Fixed and Free Quarterly reprinted Larew's poem , Country Stores, in Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2026. The poem first appeared i

Editor Mansour Noorbakhsh and the folks at Asemana Books have included Larew's poetry in this all-too-timely anthology. Thanks to them.

My gratitude to Stazja McFadyen of Poets for Human Rights for including "Clatter" in the St. Valentine's Day 2026 Mini-Anthology. Here's an audio recording of the poem -- Stream Clatter by Hiram Larew | Listen online for free on SoundCloud This poem first appeared in 21st Century Flow.

The Editor of The Universes Poetry journal, Nicole Gayler, and her team created a Take a Poem box (in photo) at the Exeter Phoenix creativity and cultural center in Exeter, Devon, UK. This is a very cool way of offering poetry to the public. Visitors can grab a poem from the box to enjoy. Editor Gayler included Larew's poems -- ones that had appeared in the journal -- in the box. Thanks to her for doing this and for the great idea. Here's info on The Universes Poetry --