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Featured Poetry

Andy Motz – a love poem

June 22, 2025June 19, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet and filmmaker Andy Motz revels in the openness of sharing intimacy in his five-part mini-epic "a love poem".

Tagged intimacy, LBGT, love, love poem, masculinity, Poem, poet, Poetry, Queer, queer poetry, relationship, same sex relationships, sex, timeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ryan Diaz – A Vow of Poverty

October 1, 2023September 28, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

With the juxtaposition of piousness and sacredness to desire and indulgence, Ryan Diaz surprises us with his "A Vow of Poverty".

Tagged carnal, desire, erotic, holiness, lust, piousness, Poem, poet, Poetry, sex, spiritualLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Anya Smith – Mountain Messaged Erotica

July 10, 2022July 7, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Anya Smith's three-part sequence poem, "Mountain Messaged Erotica", is narrative rife with outdoorsy rustic goodness and passion.

Tagged erotic, love, mountains, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sensuality, sexLeave a comment
All About Love

The Curse

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHRIS JANSEN - The default state of all intelligent human beings is confusion. And what if ‘living your truth’ is just flinging yourself into another delusion?

Tagged confusion, delusion, sex, short story, therapy, truth1 Comment
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Marie Howe – Death, the last visit

November 16, 2021November 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Marie Howe's different, highly sexual vision of transitioning out of life through a double-take on 'la petite morte,' the experience of orgasm as 'a little death.'

Tagged Death, ecstasy, Fear, love, orgasm, Poetry, relief, sexLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art's Restorative Power
    The Culture of Healing: Louise Glück on Art's Restorative Power
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Ordinary Devotions
    Ordinary Devotions

- 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-

  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    13th Sekki poems by BENJAMIN TANNER LLOYD, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
  • A Year of Kō: 12th Sekki
    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
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