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Featured Poetry

Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage

March 12, 2023March 9, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.

Tagged Death, grief, Inspiration, loss, Meditation, mortality, Poem, poet, Poetry, sorrow, Thomas Merton, winter2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Nadir Feroz – Doused

November 20, 2022November 18, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Penned while he sat by the Nile River, Nadir Feroz's "Doused" carries the themes of time, eternity, light, and mortality in its currents.

Tagged current, eternity, mortality, Nile, Poem, poet, Poetry, river, Sudan, time2 Comments
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Remember the Bear

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JENNIFER CHRISTGAU AQUINO When the fall the sky turned orange from fire, and a pandemic roared, and the children lay in bed all day, and cancer took residence in your armpits, you found a bear in your basement.

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