Yes, it’s a ton of fun, but the thing I really like most is that I always see some kid who isn’t mine doing something far worse than anything mine have done in public. The best moments of all, however, are the ones in which my kids wear an expression of horror as they witness […]
It's just poetry, it won't bite
Death,
Do you remember Jean Hendrickson? Of course you do! Wait til you read what she’s written now! A very different poem from the one you read here first (Community), this is a work of stark and graphic images. It is a personal poem, a request of the Grim Reaper himself. If he appreciates poetry (and […]
Moving in
Oh look! It’s another Virginia writer! Kay Middleton lives on the edge of the sprawling Lake Smith in Virginia Beach with her husband. She keeps (or is kept by) a garden and writes poetry, short stories, and novels, although she rather believes these things write themselves. She has a piece to be published in an […]
Circular Motion
Time, although only a minor theme in this poem, is something Val B. Russell writes very well about. You will remember the delight that is her poem Tic Toc from this column. Time is the undercurrent in Circular Motion. The primary reference, of course, is ambition and the pursuit of empty goals: universal themes and […]
For My Daughter
Something poetic is happening in Virginia! Maybe it’s the history, maybe it’s the Chesapeake, Virginia has contributed great poems to vox poetica. You’ve read the work of Christina Marie Speed, Rae Spencer, and Jean M. Hendrickson. Now read a lovely memory poem by Bob Christin. He is a retired English professor (Ohio State, Notre Dame, […]
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