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If I had carrots on Sunday

02.05.14 Posted in today's words by

Diana Raab is an award-winning memoirist, poet, and blogger. She is the author of 8 books including the poetry collections Listening to Africa, Dear Anais: My Life in Poems for You, and The Guilt Gene, and the chapbook My Muse Undresses Me. Diana teaches writing for healing around the country and her work is widely […]


The Lineage of Stars

02.04.14 Posted in today's words by

Aden Thomas lives in Laramie WY with his wife and two sons. His work has previously been featured in Common Ground Review, Dressing Room Poetry Journal, The San Pedro Review, The Red River Review, The Road Not Taken, The Owen Wister Review, WestWard Quarterly, and the Avalon Literary Review, among others. Visit his website. The […]


Yesterday’s Wind

02.03.14 Posted in today's words by

RD McManes wrote this poem. Yesterday’s Wind By RD McManes there is a point where the mind ends as the darkness closes in and the thoughts vanish inside the eyes burn crimson bright clarity leaves a sky bound rocket on one last flight i’ll leave this world where my words flowed down past the creek’s […]


Cybersburg Address: A Free Sonnet

02.02.14 Posted in today's words by

Changming Yuan, a 6-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Landscaping (2013), grew  up in rural China but currently tutors in Vancouver, where he copublishes Poetry Pacific with Allen Qing Yuan and operates PP Press. With a PhD in English, Yuan has recently been interviewed by [PANK] and had poetry […]


Nature Lover

02.01.14 Posted in today's words by

James Mc Elroy’s most recent poem to appear here was NYC (December 2012). Nature Lover By James Mc Elroy An eminent critic on NPR reads that passage from Whitman where he asks, “What is grass?” When he stops reading he makes the point that we’ve lost the art of asking questions in a digital age. […]


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