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Featured Poetry

Elias Tucker – Corona del Mar

February 1, 2026January 31, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Emerging poet Elias Tucker offers much more than a love poem with his "Corona del Mar". He offers praise and gratitude to God.

Tagged awe, beach, california, God, grateful, Gratitude, life, Life is beautiful, love, love poem, ocean, Poem, poet, Poetry, praise, shoreLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jasmine Marshall Armstrong – Yellow-Headed Blackbirds

June 11, 2023June 1, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Observant and curious, poet Jasmine Marshall Armstrong draws inspiration and lessons from birds in her poem "Yellow-Headed Blackbirds".

Tagged attention, balance, birds, california, fauna, nature, observation, openness, Poem, poet, Poetry, springLeave a comment
All About Love

The River Cabin

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CAITE MCNEIL Making the decision to move back to Maine wasn't easy for a mother who wanted her daughter to love her home as much as she does.

Tagged california, childhood, forgetting, homecoming, learning, Maine, motherhood, nature, spiralLeave a comment
Allen Ginsberg
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Allen Ginsberg – A Supermarket in California

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

Allen Ginsberg's homage to Walt Whitman is a colorful, visionary encounter in a supermarket in Berkeley one night.

Tagged america, Beat Poetry, california, cultural critique, dream, homage, legacy, Poem, Poetry, queer poetry, vision, Walt WhitmanLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
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    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art's Restorative Power
    The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art's Restorative Power
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
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    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    13th Sekki poems by BENJAMIN TANNER LLOYD, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • 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".
  • A Year of Kō: 12th Sekki
    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • 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".
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