Caroline Goodwin's "Sky" is like still-life in poetic form, an accounting of a space and a moment, lush with "lived-in" detail.
Tag: life
Barry Casey – Vocation
Maryland poet Barry Casey shines a light on the briefest of miracles that is life with his poem "Vocation".
Karen Luke Jackson – Noon Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral
In Karen Luke Jackson's stunning "Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral", we are guided up stone, glass, and spire alongside prayers of parishioners.
Ashley Capps – Kindly
Love of life is the animating force behind all living things; each moment we decide to give or withhold love is an emergency for someone.
David Whyte – The Opening of Eyes
Whyte's poem of clear seeing: the experience of holiness is the very ground that is under our feet.
Joshua St. Claire & Amber Winter – Out Into the Light
Poets Joshua St. Claire and Amber Winter weave together a collaborative duet, offering a traditional kasen renga with “Out Into the Light”.
Sheila Lynch-Benttinen – Equations
Massachusetts poet Sheila Lynch-Benttinen's "Equations" is a work of heavy content, juxtaposed with simple elegance and sparseness.
Jocelyn Ulevicus – Breathing and Swallowing in Montreal, 2017
A hush encounters uncertainty and transformation in Jocelyn Ulevicus's pensive curious poem, "Breathing and Swallowing in Montreal, 2017".
Mary McGinnis – Trail Prayer
Just in time for springtime, New Mexico poet Mary McGinnis beckons us out into great outdoors with her poem "Trail Prayer".
Aeris Walker – Good and Wild and Wonderful
Aeris Walker's "Good and Wild and Wonderful" is a prose poem of vast enormity, of the creation of all things.