Well Met
September 2026

Happy September to everyone, and many thanks for joining us on our one-and-a-half-year birthday! Yes, this issue is our 18th, and we’re flying as high as the geese who adorn our front cover this month, inspired by the offering from Susan McLean. We feel privileged that sufficient interest has been shown in WM for us to continue the project, and we’re very grateful to all the poets who have agreed to be featured, since our earliest days.

Our thanks to all the poets listed below, including new arrival Jared Carter. Welcome! Please click on any name to access the poet’s page. Our prompt-if-you-want was Back to School, which pops up amidst writing on many other themes. Enjoy!

Melissa Balmain

John Claiborne Isbell