Linda Lerner s latest collection, Taking the F Train (NYQ Books, 2021) has been chosen as a finalist in the 2022 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her poems currently appear in Maintenant, Gargoyle, Big City Lit, One Art, Shot Glass Journal, NYC from the Inside (poetry anthology, 2022) & Great Weather of Media (anthlogy) Arriving at a Shoreline. Previous collections include, Yes, the Ducks Were Real, NYQ Books (2015). In spring, 2015 she read six poems on WBAI. In 1995 she and Andrew Gettler began Poets on the Line, the first poetry anthology on the Net for which she received two grants.

Other poems by Linda Lerner in Verse Daily:
October 16, 2011:   "City Rain" "For days, rain blasting away..."

Books by Linda Lerner:

Other poems on the web by Linda Lerner:
Four poems
Two poems
"An Ember"
"From a Stranger"
"Empty Spaces"
"Regret"
"Policing"
Two poems
"The Missing Key: U"

About Taking the F Train:

"Linda Lerner is a streetwise poet who has the rare ability to make you feel like you are walking in her shoes or sitting with her on a subway train on its way to a new adventure. Take a trip with her on the "F" train, but don't stop there, there are other cities and states where equal pleasure awaits you. These are poems planted like seeds in the fertile garden of the mind. The poet writes in the language of the common man and woman with no pretense at academic deceit or treachery. If poems were food, you'd put down the book feeling like you had just eaten at a 4-Star diner."
—A. D. Winans

"Linda Lerner's poems from her chapbook, When Death Is a Red Balloon, [now reprised in the section Left Unfinished,] deftly explore one of the most intense feelings in life: deep grieving. Her loss of the closest of friends, her rock in life, is devastating beyond words. Yet she manages to find a voice to her mourning and gifts us these poems which are both deeply personal and universally recognizable. Anyone who has experienced the loss of someone they loved needs to read this book."
—Alan Catlin