On Poetry and Poems.

by Katie Daniels Clock says nine-thirty. Mom calls "Lights out!" My book calls too. " Just ten minutes," says the book. Temptation overcomes. I gently lift the book. "Just ten minutes," I say. The words envelope me. I travel with the hero. I curse the nefarious villain. I marvel the twists and turns of the plot. The story takes me with it. Trapping … [Read more...] about Books

  by Kathy Karlson   Little can make up for this gray, heavy, day. Exceptions come up, though: Your left forearm on the table While you make your way Through salad and book; That story about your mother taking down the tree house So other boys couldn’t steal the wood; The shadows of shaking leaves on our floor; And then the wild memory of the … [Read more...] about Long Married

by Alison Shaffer   The Naming of Prophecy   I. "These two assertions, that metaphor [a] teaches or says nothing new and [b] serves only to ornament language, proceed step by step from the initial decision to treat metaphor as an unusual way of naming things."     - Ricoeur   II. I say the sun makes war with … [Read more...] about The Naming of Prophecy & The Wild Pear

YOUR QUESTIONS by Shelly Wagner I'll tell you; I'll be bold. You cannot know what this is like I don't want you to know firsthand.  But do not dare surmise or worse, pass judgment -- you'll hear a different poem from me. Not the poem that tries with constricted throat to speak the unspeakable, recapture in foolish, shallow syllables the trauma … [Read more...] about From THE ANDREW POEMS

by Vitomir Marjanović      We are angels of broken dreams   You are walking on a far way without a goal In your eyes there is only sorrow And just emptiness in your hart With a look of closed eyes You see yourself all broken from inside   I don’t have air around me In my heart there is emptiness Sorrow in my eyes is … [Read more...] about Poems from a Serbian Teenager