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June Jordan
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June Jordan – Poem for a Young Poet

December 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

A poem expressing the desire for love and connection, going deeper into the shared essence of being that underlies difference.

Tagged activism, Advice, connection, desire, encounters, language, love, Poetry, surfaceLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Marsha Warren Mittman – No Name

October 17, 2021October 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

With her poem No Name, Marsha Warren Mittman details the transition from urban to rural living, and coming to embrace and become one with new experiences.

Tagged acceptance, connection, emergence, Identity, Interconnectedness, Meditation, nature, oneness, Poem, Poetry, self-acceptance, transformation6 Comments
Featured Poetry

Susan Coultrap-McQuin – Seeking Stars

September 12, 2021September 19, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

"Seeking Stars" by Susan Coultrap-McQuin is a meditation on growing older and inhabiting the autumnal season of our lives.

Tagged aging, animals, change, connection, Growing old, growth, journey, Poem, Poetry, transformation1 Comment
Pippa Goldschmidt
Book Bits

Astronomer Pippa Goldschmidt on Seeing Far and Seeing Up Close

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 Vanessa Able

Astronomer Pippa Goldschmidt on working in the starry deserts of Chile during a time when new technologies meant a more remote relationship to the act of stargazing.

Tagged alienation, astronomy, connection, relation, remoteness, scale, space, Stars, UniverseLeave a comment
Ellen Skilton
Featured Poetry

Ellen Skilton – Like Every Good Thing

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Ellen Skilton's poem offers poignant words that touch on a universal feeling experienced by humanity in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic - the sacredness of human interaction.

Tagged community, connection, COVID, COVID-19, gather, holiness, humanity, isolation, pandemic, togethernessLeave a comment
Erika Michael
Featured Poetry

Erika Michael – Entanglement

April 4, 2021April 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Relationships that defy boundaries: Erika Michael's 'Entanglement' is an ode to her late husband and a poem about love after death.

Tagged connection, continuity, Death, entanglement, love, marriage, quantum entanglement, transcendenceLeave a comment
Stuart Gunter
Featured Poetry

Stuart Gunter – The Wind Telephone

March 21, 2021March 21, 2021 Vanessa Able

Stuart Gunter's poem, The Wind Telephone, engages with one of the more poignant symbols of the thousands of deaths following the 2011 tsunami in Japan.

Tagged connection, Death, grief, Japan, loss, love, telephone, tsunami, windLeave a comment

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