In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
Category: Featured Poetry
Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
Riley Danvers – [Soma]tic
Oregon poet Riley Danvers reveals what it means to be human in a painful state of flux in her avant-garde [Soma]tic.
Phach Huynh – Traces
Ho Chi Minh City poet Phach Huynh reveals all the stories and presences which are held in the lonely silences with his masterful "Traces".
Halina Goldstein – How to Play the Gong
Spiritual teacher and poet Halina Goldstein unfolds a rhythm of vibrancy, glory, and emptiness with her poem "How to Play the Gong".
Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
Constance Clark – This Heat Sculpts a Spell
Allow the summer heat of Constance Clark's "This Heat Sculpts a Spell" soak into you, as her poem unfolds its petals as an ode to connection.