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Tag: prose poem

Featured Poetry

Max Nobis – Sweetness Defined

June 15, 2025June 14, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Cleveland poet Max Nobis unspools an ode to Helen, a figure of radiance and mirth, an avatar worthy of adoration.

Tagged Compassion, Kindness, Light, love, motherhood, ode, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Aeris Walker – Good and Wild and Wonderful

February 12, 2023February 23, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Aeris Walker's "Good and Wild and Wonderful" is a prose poem of vast enormity, of the creation of all things.

Tagged beauty, birth, Creation, Genesis, life, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poemLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Lina Buividavičiūtė – A Housewife’s Opus Magnum

October 30, 2022October 27, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Lithuanian poet Lina Buividavičiūtė's prose poem "A Housewife's Opus Magnum" reveals a holiness discovered in simplicity and domesticity.

Tagged domesticity, God, holiness, Meditation, Poem, poet, Poetry, prose poem, Simplicity, work, ZenLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
    Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
  • Phach Huynh - Traces
    Phach Huynh - Traces
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Rebecca Elson - Antidotes to Fear of Death
    Rebecca Elson - Antidotes to Fear of Death
  • Deneen Fendig and Duncan Trussell Talk About Active Dying
    Deneen Fendig and Duncan Trussell Talk About Active Dying

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Riley Danvers – [Soma]tic
    Oregon poet Riley Danvers reveals what it means to be human in a painful state of flux in her avant-garde [Soma]tic.
  • Phach Huynh – Traces
    Ho Chi Minh City poet Phach Huynh reveals all the stories and presences which are held in the lonely silences with his masterful "Traces".
  • A Year of Kō: 14th Sekki
    14th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Halina Goldstein – How to Play the Gong
    Spiritual teacher and poet Halina Goldstein unfolds a rhythm of vibrancy, glory, and emptiness with her poem "How to Play the Gong".
  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    13th Sekki poems by BENJAMIN TANNER LLOYD, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
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