Category: Guest Posts
Zoom Saloon Prompts
Hey, friends. Thanks to all who came out to the Zoom Saloon with Robert Okaji. As promised there, here’s our ghazal exchange and the invitation to respond in verse via the comment section here (or on his site). If you weren’t able to tune in today, and yet feel inspired to versify, please do. In…
Guest Poetry Post: Don Perkins
Evergreen Pond – Doublespeak I, too, have celebrated it as a gift, taken joy, tuned and retuned my senses to the rippling surface, to the shifting collective greens, to the whisperings of reeds in the wind, to the trill of the blackbirds and the chortling of the ducks, to the desperate energy of fledglings taking…
Guest Post: Integration, Glosa by Don Perkins
My longtime poetry collaborator Don Perkins is part of a group doing a poetry challenge this winter. I’m chuffed to bits that he chose to riff off a poem of mine for this piece. Don was also kind enough to record a reading of ‘Integration’ for us to enjoy, here: And here’s the text, showing…
Advent Eve Offering
A beautiful poem, written and spoken by beloved peace worker Carolyn Pogue. Galaxy image from pixabay.com
My Mother’s Ghost Knits a Scarf of Chain
Originally posted on O at the Edges:
? My Mother’s Ghost Knits a Scarf of Chain When I look up rust scabs flutter from your clicking needles, subsuming even the brightest link in this moon-drenched room. Communion’s possibility perished in that wicker basket, and we hold close our secrets, looped within circles, joined in these…
Guest Post: Another Storm, by Ellen Kartz
Yet another morning after yet another rain, the alley shows the proof of last night’s storm— the puddles in the gravel, in the pavement’s recesses. Trees always look greener in the morning. They suffer the worst in storms, but somehow manage to recover—taller, stronger. It takes us longer to find our strength again. We get…
Saint Behind the Glass
Here’s a lyrical meditation from NYC author Elizabeth Frank, whose latest novel arrives from Stonehouse Press in November. Elizabeth Frank
Angel
Originally posted on Green-Eyed Cat Cave:
Working for God is never easy. She’s a bit demanding, and always a tad over the top. But it gets worse when you’re tasked with helping mortals fall in love. “Avery, you got a new task today.” I sighed, slumping down in my chair. “Don’t I always.” Masami glared…
Camino Edmonton
My friend Astrid did something remarkable this year, in company with some remarkable folks. Read her story here: via Camino Edmonton
person Estrella del Valle, three poems translated by Toshiya Kamei
Originally posted on ISACOUSTIC*:
Born in Córdoba, Veracruz, Estrella del Valle now lives in El Paso, Texas. Her most recent poetry collection, Calima: CAution LIve aniMAls, was published in 2018. Translations of her poems have appeared in various journals, including Burnside Review, Coe Review, Controlled Burn, International Poetry Review, and Pembroke Magazine. Toshiya Kamei holds…
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