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Featured Poetry

Erica Miriam Fabri – The Bride and the Wolf

July 5, 2026July 3, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Brooklyn poet Erica Miriam Fabri presents a dialogue of love, loss, and acceptance in her dramatic and melancholic "The Bride and the Wolf".

Tagged acceptance, Death, determination, hope, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, survival, ViolenceLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Roderick Wilson – Practicing Resurrection

March 15, 2026March 14, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

New York poet Roderick Wilson wipes the snow from the threadbare conclusion of wintertime, on the cusp of transition.

Tagged Belief, growth, Poem, poet, Poetry, resurrection, spring, springtime, survival, winterLeave a comment
All About Love

Not Done

February 6, 2026February 9, 2026 Vanessa Able

The hardest battles of cancer often give rise to the most resilience, wisdom and love. BY NOAH LANE BROWNE

Tagged breast cancer, cancer, Care, chemo, grief, illness, love, radiation, Resilience, Suffering, support, survival, treatment, Wisdom2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Megan Lynn Hall – On Doctor’s Recommendation

April 6, 2025April 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Megan Lynn Hall escorts us into discomfort and release with her intense impactful poem "On Doctor's Recommendation".

Tagged agency, control, escape, Fear, massage, Poem, poet, Poetry, power, release, resist, survival, violation, vulnerability2 Comments
Audre Lorde
Poetry

Audre Lorde – A Litany for Survival

December 9, 2020 Vanessa Able

Audre Lorde's 'A Litany for Survival' is a prayer for the marginalized, those living on the shoreline or on the 'constant edges of decision', whose forbidden loves occur in hidden places and times.

Tagged Anxiety, civil rights, Dreams, Fear, forbidden love, injustice, insecurity, Poetry, survival1 Comment
Judith Wright
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Judith Wright – The Lost Man

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Vanessa Able

The Lost Man is Judith Wright's poem about the journey out of losing oneself, based on the true story of a plane crash survivor who was later lost over a waterfall in Australia.

Tagged Australian poetry, Death, journey, Judith Wright, Poetry, survival, the Way, Waterfall1 Comment

TOP POSTS

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    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
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    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
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  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
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  • James Wright - Trying to Pray
    James Wright - Trying to Pray
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    The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
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- 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-

  • 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".
  • 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".
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