Kurt Cole Eidsvig digs into motivation, poetic strategies, and the mystery of where the arrows of our intentions land.
Tag: loss
Now and Then
BY CAMILLE GOODISON - Rediscovering the strength and joy in a family's legacy, and appreciating the similarities and differences.
Nathan Bakken – call it resurrection
Poet Nathan Bakken breaths oxygen into an ember of warmth in a place of stone, darkness, and death with their poem "call it resurrection".
Donald Mace Williams – A Translated Passage from “Beowulf”
Donald Mace Williams breathes new light into the 10th century Old English epic poem Beowulf, written in iambic meter.
Siddhi Soman – Nurture
Poet Siddhi Soman escorts readers to her childhood in rural India, evoking sorrow about what's been left to decay with her poem "Nurture".
Sahar Fathi – All-the-time Home
Iranian-American poet Sahar Fathi offers a discourse on longing and nostalgia with her incredibly poignant poem "All-the-time Home".
Paul Kiernan – After the Funeral Rites
Florida poet Paul Kiernan gives voice and humanity to one of the most maligned women of classical poetry, Helen of Troy.
Songbird Birdsong
BY PAMELA AYO YETUNDE - A retelling of the Buddhist legend of Kisa Gotami, bereaved mother Keisha comes to a Buddhist Monastery for guidance.
Liam Wholihan – Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup
Poet Liam Wholihan offers a lament for several different things in his complex "Elegy for a Virgin-Born Bonnethead Shark Pup".
Ethan Levin – Midrash on Psalm 13
Jewish chaplain Ethan Levin presents a powerful poetic interpretation of a biblical psalm with his "Midrash on Psalm 13".