Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 20, 2026
Ethan Goffman

Ethan Goffman

Ethan Goffman is co-founder of It Takes a Community, a Montgomery College initiative bringing poetry to students and local residents. He is also founder and producer of the "Poetry & Planet" podcast on EarthTalk.org.

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About Ethan Goffman

Ethan Goffman is the author of the poetry collections I Garden Weeds (Cyberwit, 2021), Words for Things Left Unsaid (Kelsay Books, 2020) and the flash fiction collection Dreamscapes (UnCollected Press, 2021). I Garden Weeds is 2nd place winner of the Taj Mahal Review Poetry Prize. Ethan is co-founder of It Takes a Community, which brings poetry to Montgomery College students and nearby residents, and is founder and producer of the Poetry & Planet podcast on EarthTalk.org. Ethan also writes nonfiction on transportation alternatives for Greater Greater Washington and other publications.

Books by Ethan Goffman

Short

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Poem

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  • A Very Short Collection of Very Short Poems

    Ethan Goffman is co-founder of It Takes a Community, a Montgomery College initiative bringing poetry to students and local residents. He is also founder and producer of the "Poetry & Planet" podcast on EarthTalk.org. Ethan Goffman

  • On Postpartum Depression

    "Seven and a half billion human beings on this Earth..."

  • Forgetting

    "...Remember that couple?.."

  • Alternative History

    "Everything could have been different..."

  • PWOC

    "...I am everywhere, stealing others

  • The Problem of Being a Sperm

    "...an existential crisis much greater than any human..."

Prose

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  • On Praise

    Time to examine one's motivations...