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All About Love

1968

June 26, 2024June 27, 2024 Trent Thomson

During the turbulent times of the late1960s in the United States, a family experiences death, and the dread of war. BY R.J. CHISHOLM

Tagged 1960s, Death, family, grief, loss, martin luther king jr, shock, Vietnam, warLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Nathan Hassall – Perhaps it is Grief

May 26, 2024May 23, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Trancelike, Nathan Hassall's "Perhaps it is Grief" examines death and loss, reveals the interplay between love and endings.

Tagged ending, existence, grief, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, UniverseLeave a comment
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write: Kurt Cole Eidsvig

March 5, 2024March 5, 2024 Vanessa Able

Kurt Cole Eidsvig digs into motivation, poetic strategies, and the mystery of where the arrows of our intentions land.

Tagged addiction, Death, drugs, loss, pandemic, poet, Poetry, strategy, style, WritingLeave a comment
Now and Then
All About Love

Now and Then

February 21, 2024February 20, 2024 Vanessa Able

BY CAMILLE GOODISON - Rediscovering the strength and joy in a family's legacy, and appreciating the similarities and differences.

Tagged cancer, family, fruit, illness, Jamaica, Joy, loss, love, strength1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Nathan Bakken – call it resurrection

January 14, 2024January 18, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Nathan Bakken breaths oxygen into an ember of warmth in a place of stone, darkness, and death with their poem "call it resurrection".

Tagged Death, Gaza, grief, loss, Palestine, patience, Poem, poet, Poetry, Quiet, resurrection, waitingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Donald Mace Williams – A Translated Passage from “Beowulf”

January 7, 2024January 4, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Donald Mace Williams breathes new light into the 10th century Old English epic poem Beowulf, written in iambic meter.

Tagged Beowulf, Death, loss, Norse, Old English, Old Norse, Poem, poet, Poetry, revenge, translated, translationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Siddhi Soman – Nurture

December 24, 2023December 14, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Siddhi Soman escorts readers to her childhood in rural India, evoking sorrow about what's been left to decay with her poem "Nurture".

Tagged childhood, grief, India, loss, memory, nostalgia, nurture, Poem, poet, Poetry, sorrow, wistfulnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Sahar Fathi – All-the-time Home

November 26, 2023November 24, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Iranian-American poet Sahar Fathi offers a discourse on longing and nostalgia with her incredibly poignant poem "All-the-time Home".

Tagged childhood, family, immigrant, Immigration, Iran, Iranian Poetry, loss, past, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Paul Kiernan – After the Funeral Rites

October 8, 2023October 5, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Florida poet Paul Kiernan gives voice and humanity to one of the most maligned women of classical poetry, Helen of Troy.

Tagged ancient greek, Death, destiny, epic, fate, Homer, loss, love, perspective, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
All About Love

Songbird Birdsong

August 7, 2023August 7, 2023 Vanessa Able

BY PAMELA AYO YETUNDE - A retelling of the Buddhist legend of Kisa Gotami, bereaved mother Keisha comes to a Buddhist Monastery for guidance.

Tagged bereavement, Compassion, Death, fiction, grief, loss, motherhood, parenthood, short story, Suffering, WisdomLeave a comment

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