Oritsegbemi Emmanuel Japka was born in Warri, Nigeria, and currently lives in Ireland. His poetry has been widely published. He has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and he won the Yeats Pierce Loughran Award in 2008. You’re a writer, so what do you moonlight as? Moonlight By Emmanuel Japka I’ve to tell you, I […]
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The Sign Language Class
Jeff Campbell is a teacher, father, husband, and poet. It is symbolic of his life that he often struggles to determine what order to list those aspects in. His musings, poetry, and explorations of the truth can be found at his blog. The Sign Language Class By Jeff Campbell “Voices off” you remind us by […]
compact discontents
Omar Azam’s words and voice appeared here in August (red impression). We have the great good fortune of both reading and hearing him again with his poem today. compact discontents By Omar Azam I can wrap my head around it And I don’t feel it So I wrap it away I want to feel it […]
You
Michael Turner’s poem La Danse Immobile was about love and his poem today is about love too. But they do not describe the same thing. You By Michael Turner You the wanton beguiling with flirtatious eyes. You the termagant commanding with strident impositions. You the muse leading me to the feast of words. You the maenad lashing […]
Leave Taking
Bette Hileman paints vivid pictures with her poems (Danger). Here she describes the setting but even more aptly, the emotional landscape. Leave Taking By Bette Hileman There was an evening When you couldn’t stop crying. We were sitting at dinner. Candles were lit. The food was delicious. I was wearing an attractive dress. The room […]
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