Woodland Poem You can put anything on the magic paper Shining sun Pollen for bugs Flying in the water Eating fish Cold yummy Ice cream I love watermelons On a hot summer day Sunny days Play catch Skraps like little Vagume cleeners Peeps are yummy Nature is awesome The beautiful white petals Are like unicorn …
Growing Home There’s a certain endearment About the black and white tiles on the floor of Toy Boat Dessert Cafe, the lingering smell of coffee, the figurines that line the wall. I grew a piece of home in the table next to the ice-cream-sticky rocking horse. I planted a seed of home between the rocks …
Vibrant Petals The Moon is just a big pile of rocks And flowers are just weeds But even with these descriptions We only see the beauty and light How the petals of a flower are bright and vibrant How their smells bring the butterflies and bees So why can’t we just see the beauty in …
Untitled He must persevere is this what it has come to He is the only one who can help The oldest at only sixteen He might not see them for years His old parents are struggling But he is proud he uses them as motivation He knows they are depending on him that this is …
America Today When you’re eight years old You don’t think about The world melting away Or people dying because of the color of their skin Picking cotton, How far have we come? Hungry and without a home At recess Playing, while another school is under attack Are our fathers being torn from our families? Afraid …
Safer Under the green leaves I catch my breath Quiet, soft, gentle the light surround me Chirps and whistles tickle my soul The wind touches me I am safe The narcissistic voice has been silenced Ugly souls are not gathering on streets Rough hands are not grabbing innocent bodies Pretenders become ghost We are safer …
IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMIN’ BUT HERE WE ARE. AMERICA HAS A NEW PRESIDENT AND A SHINY, NEW VICE PRESIDENT. INTELLIGENT, VISIONARY, MALE AND FEMALE; BLACK, WHITE AND ASIAN. THERE IS POSSIBILITY IN THE AIR. DRINK IT IN. THIS IS OUR MOMENT. REJOICE. AND PRAISE OUR NEW POET LAUREATE AMANDA GORMAN. GOOD THINGS ARE …
At the very end of autumn, under the threat of a temperature drop into the 30s, I was covering new plants with plastic blankets. I wanted to leave my work in the garden and call my mother. The problem with that is both my parents had been dead for some 55 years. I was in …
Introduction We begin with hope. This is perhaps why poems were traditional New Year’s gifts—for what is poetry but a stockpile of possibilities. The past year has been shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, by economic recession and racial unrest, by distance learning and social distancing, and what was possibly the most gripping election in US …
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Jack Reads Pronto Professore from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. January 2021. At the beginning of a new post-pandemic and post-Trump era, we are framed between the barbarian actions on January 6 and a new beginning on January 20. The world’s main agenda needs to focus on healing and growth. Furthermore, we need to reinvent …
The resistance poet in Poetry Chef Michael Dickel wields his frying spoon with that amazing verve of a militant word-master and that astounding zeal of a chronicler cum griot cum protest poet. He fries and roasts the 6th January American political gaffe into a beautiful poetry gourmet (fusion of visual arts , graphics and poetry) …
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A filmed dance series with a global reach debuts, a pandemic postponed concert is NOW, more dance films, plus online encores, where to submit dance videos, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. Author’s note: Many of the dance events and classes rounded up below are free with donations encouraged. …
With her third album, Magic Mirror, Los Angeles-born Pearl Charles upgrades 60’s and 70’s pop and soft-rock templates, exploring such perennial themes as loss, identity crisis, and relational flux. The project brims with unshakable hooks, spotlighting Charles’s ever-crystalline voice. The sequence opens with “Only for Tonight,” featuring an immediately seductive melody and 70’s-era beats à …
Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic that is both viral and political, it is a resource for strength and creativity, friendship and beauty, …
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angel each hollow pay homage trace where the line could you feather, could you wing, in abeyance to your spine? what cracks the sun from dream to dawn to fingertips again the kingdom of your solitude to lick the red wound clean? * spell for home it’s stagnant here sister, this collection …
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