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Featured Poetry

Erik Manuel Soto – Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse

March 23, 2025March 21, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Witness how endings give way to change through the serpentine form of Erik Manuel Soto's "Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse".

Tagged Aztec, change, Death, growth, Latin America, mexico, night, Poem, poet, Poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Joanne Grumet – Exegesis

March 16, 2025March 14, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In seven succinct lines, poet Joanne Grumet explores the relationship between language and faith with her poem "Exegesis".

Tagged exegesis, faith, language, literacy, Poem, poet, Poetry, relationship, religion, scriptureLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Beatrice Szymkowiak – Cloudlessness

March 9, 2025March 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Beatrice Szymkowiak's stark piece "Cloudlessness" feels as cold and desolate as the imagery it reveals to us.

Tagged Emptiness, empty, loss, minimalism, Poem, poet, Poetry, stark, winter, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Hyacinth Harlow – kindred

March 2, 2025February 28, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Hyacinth Harlow's powerful "kindred" puts the disparity between hate and love under their poetic lens, revering our human connection.

Tagged connection, hate, human connection, human experience, interaction, Interconnectedness, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, relationship, RelationshipsLeave a comment
Joy Sullivan
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Joy Sullivan – Sister

February 26, 2025February 25, 2025 Sam Shapiro

Joy Sullivan's poem on the lived sense of healing while being held in another person's deep, loving attention.

Tagged Care, Compassion, empathy, friendship, Heartache, Kindness, listening, love, Poem, Poetry, sharing, sorrow, Suffering, support2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Amelia Schroeder – April 11th

February 23, 2025February 22, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Amelia Schroeder's clear and conversational poem "April 11th" pulses with warmth and curiosity as the narrator inquires of another.

Tagged connection, Joy, listening, motion, movement, Poem, poet, Poetry, relationship, Relationships1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Gary Fox – Dissolve

February 16, 2025February 14, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

"Dissolve" by poet Gary Fox is a place poem, woven with the interplay of stillness and motion, light emptying into darkness.

Tagged birds, fading, Light, nature, night, nightfall, Poem, poet, Poetry, Silence, Stillness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Grant Moser – starings and starvings

February 9, 2025February 7, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Grant Moser's diminutive prose poem "starings and starvings" is disarmingly all-encompassing, a statement that we are alive.

Tagged alive, aliveness, connection, earth, Interconnectedness, life, nature, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
WS Merwin
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W.S. Merwin – Rain Travel

February 6, 2025January 30, 2025 Sam Shapiro

The influence of Buddhist thought is evident in much of W.S. Merwin’s writing.

Tagged dark, dawn, journey, leaves, night, Poem, Poetry, rain, Travel1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Ingrid M. Calderón – come to me

February 2, 2025January 30, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Los Angeles poet Ingrid M. Calderón breathes a little fire into the cold hours of February with her passionate "come to me".

Tagged desire, love, need, passion, Poem, poet, Poetry, profane, romance, sacred, sacredness, wantLeave a comment

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