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Featured Poetry

Eloise Klein Healy – Iris

May 8, 2022May 5, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".

Tagged blossom, Courage, Death, flowers, growth, healing, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, springLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt

May 1, 2022April 28, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.

Tagged environment, growth, healing, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, rejuvenation, restoration, spring, winter, wintertime, ZenLeave a comment
Julia Park Tracey
Featured Poetry

Julia Park Tracey – Tufas

June 20, 2021June 16, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In Tufas, Julia Park Tracey offers a simple and quiet poem focused on the landscape and nature, with a sense of tragidy that's only hinted at through her words.

Tagged grief, healing, landscape, loss, nature, restoration, sierras, springLeave a comment
Kurt Cole Eidsvig
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Kurt Cole Eidsvig – Seasonal

April 20, 2020January 18, 2022 Vanessa Able

Kurt Cole Eidsvig's poem Seasonal is an ode to the goddess Persephone whose twin connections to both spring and death provide the framework for a personal connection to distance, love, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Death, isolation, Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Persephone, Seasonal, spring, touch1 Comment
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- BOOK BITS -

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- POETRY-

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    "On The Mountain of Forth" is Irish poet Ronán P. Berry's anthem of the natural and wild world and what could even be considered enlightenment.
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    Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.
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    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Mike Christie – Knock Knock Knock
    A narrative of a woodpecker at work on a tree expands to the oneness of all things in Mike Christie's "Knock Knock Knock".
 

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