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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
All About Love

Öö

August 26, 2023August 24, 2023 Vanessa Able

BY ÇILER İLHAN - What seems like a flame, passion or romance perhaps is actually love, emerging in various forms, shapes, and levels of existence. If you believe in it.

Tagged affair, desire, fiction, love, romance, short storyLeave a comment
All About Love

To Walk the Stones

March 4, 2022March 24, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY MATTHEW WILLIS - What the stones at Kyoto's Jishu Jinja shrine can teach us and warn us about love in our lives

Tagged eros, games, Japan, Kyoto, love, philia, ritual, romance, shrine, stones, theaterLeave a comment
Between Writers
All About Love

Between Writers

November 18, 2021November 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY OCTAVIA ROSKO - Modern romance isn’t Shakespearean declarations of unrequited love, it’s mostly people who just don’t text back.

Tagged dating, love, romance, textingLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Eugene Platt – September Poem

October 3, 2021October 5, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Eugene Platt's September Poem is a story of squandered romance, set against the backdrop of autumn's arrival.

Tagged autumn, Autumn Leaves, exposure, Loneliness, love, love lost, Poem, Poetry, regret, romanceLeave a comment
Around the Rings of Saturn
All About Love

Around the Rings of Saturn

August 19, 2021August 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JAMES SNOW Falling in love with someone in a foreign city poses the question: is it the person or the place I’m really in love with?

Tagged Istanbul, love, music, relationship, romance, Travel, turkeyLeave a comment
Jack Gilbert
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Jack Gilbert – Failing and Flying

November 4, 2020November 6, 2020 Vanessa Able

Fearing future outcomes should not stop us from pouring ourselves fully into today. As Jack Gilbert reminds us: 'Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.'

Tagged defeat, Dreams, failure, Fear, here and now, impermanence, love, Poetry, Relationships, romance2 Comments

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  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
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    On Falling in Love - James Baldwin

- 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-

  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
  • Constance Clark – This Heat Sculpts a Spell
    Allow the summer heat of Constance Clark's "This Heat Sculpts a Spell" soak into you, as her poem unfolds its petals as an ode to connection.
  • A Year of Kō: 11th Sekki
    11th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Gene Hyde – Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi
    Poet Gene Hyde meditates on the transcendence of a day's collapse into dusk with his "Evening Meditation with Charles Lloyd on the Hi-Fi".
  • Mark J. Mitchell – Lazy Afternoon Poem
    Longtime San Francisco-based poet Mark J. Mitchell eases readers into the warm heavy heart of summer with his "Lazy Afternoon Poem".
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