As the Managing Editor of As It Ought To Be, I want to thank all of our contributors and readers for an amazing 2023. I’m proud of the work we’ve featured over the year and grateful to everyone who chose AIOTB to showcase their writing. It was a great honor to work with over a hundred writers from around the world this year. As 2023 comes to a close, I invite you to revisit some of our most popular posts of the year collected below.
Here’s to another bumper crop of poetry, reviews, and nonfiction in 2024!
Chase Dimock
Managing Editor
As It Ought To Be
Poetry
M.J. Arcangelini
- Your Gift of Stars
Jason Baldinger
- the only other thing is nothing
- this poem was written for john dorsey in the el bronco bar, richmond indiana
- when pigs fly
Marlena Maduro Baraf
- Memoir
Rusty Barnes
-Homage to Jim Harrison
Ruth Bavetta
- The Moon Illusion
Jon Bennett
- Purple Cabbage
Jean Biegun
-Olives
Sue Blaustein
- Who Wrote the Book of Love?
CL Bledsoe
- A Lightness of Feathers
Rose Mary Boehm
- Another Ordinary Story
- Discontent
- On Reflection
Ace Boggess
- Why I Can't Play Poker
R.T. Castleberry
Items from the Wreckage
Rick Christiansen
- Dragging His Beast Around
Susan Cossette
- Waiting for Cremation
- Magdalen with the Smoking Flame
John Dorsey
- Cancer Song #9
- Eating Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken with Larry Gawel
- On the Prospect of Dying in December
- Poem After Listening to Philip Levine
- Poem for Tohm Bakelas
- What to Do After You Don't Die on the Table
Justin Hamm
- The Floor
Jeanette Hutzell
- Wasting Disease
Ted Jackins
- After Wayne Shorter
Mike James
- Andy Says...
Savannah Lauren
- If I Ever Have a Daughter
Madeira Miller
- On Ownership
Cord Moreski
- Night Swimming
Dave Newman
- Lilly Works the Late Shift
Michael G. O'Connell
- On the Loss of a Daughter
Dan Overgaard
-The Crack of the Bat
Royal Rhodes
-The Other Genesis
Sandra Rivers-Gill
- A Distant Hymn
Jason Ryberg
-Scarecrow Standing at a Crossroads
Alexandria Tannenbaum
-The Strip Mall
Richard Vargas
- when i was a UPS man
Agnes Vojta
- The Pope Coffin
- The Topography of Grief
Alexander Lazarus Wolff
-Self Portrait as Ariel from the Tempest
Robin Wright
- Boarding House Bedroom
- From This Height, Six Days before 9/11
- On the Ledge
Nonfiction
Sue Blaustein
- It’s 2023, and We Still Need to Read Sally Carrighar
Chase Dimock
- In Memory of Mike James
Howie Good
- In Defense of Prose Poetry
Mike James
- Tim Peeler and the Life of the Poem
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