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sword of words

04.22.11 Posted in today's words by

At age 6, Bob McNeil was profoundly affected by A Child’s Garden of Verses. Now he is poetry editor at BLACFAX and the author of Secular Sacraments and The Nubian Gallery, A Poetry Anthology. Bob lists Whitman, the Imagists, and the Negritude Movement as being his primary influences. He has been featured as a reader at many events throughout the New […]


Release Me

04.21.11 Posted in today's words by

Amanda England lives and writes in Hagerstown MD. Amanda’s work has appeared in The Foundling Review,Joyful!, and The New Plains Review. About this poem Amanda says: “This poem was a response to a live performance of a Pearl Jam song.” It just goes to show you: You can find inspiration for poetry everywhere! Release Me By Amanda […]


One Ring

04.21.11 Posted in words to linger on by

Edwin Arce II, a jeweler specializing in rare metals and gems, has recently returned to his business and home in Binghamton NY from a year-long sabbatical in Seville, Spain, where he studied the elegant art of bullfighting. Says Edwin: “It was my dream to bring the beauty of the bullfight somehow back to Binghamton … […]


Trolley

04.20.11 Posted in today's words by

Marc Carver is an English poet who has had close to 200 poems published around the world. He has 4 collections of poetry and has been a featured reader in America and has appeared as an international artist at a festival in India. He is on the staff of a poetry site in New York […]


What’s on your bookshelf?

04.20.11 Posted in vox poetica originals by

Any unbound CONTENT titles? A few? Cool. Why not all eight? What’s that? You didn’t realize there were eight available titles? Actually, soon it will be nine with the publication of Julie Ellinger Hunt’s In New Jersey. So stock up on what  you’re missing. Summer’s coming. You don’t want to be left out with nothing […]


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