Harris Tobias last gave us A Disquisition on Spoons, which appeared at words to linger on in July. No disquisition here! Today he gives us a sampling of his haiku. While not following the precise syllabic prescriptions for haiku, these poems are traditional for the form in terms of their subject matter and their descriptive power. […]

Isabel Kestner is a poet and writer who spent half her life in New Jersey and half in Virginia, making her an odd blend of Southern Woman and Jersey Girl. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications from the time she was seventeen. Her first collection of poetry, Strange Things She Heard, was released in […]

Michael Ceraolo describes himself as a 52-year-old civil servant/poet trying to overcome a middle class upbringing. His work has been published in numerous magazines and he has one full-length and several shorter-length books to his credit. This poem is based on his project, Baseball a la Shakespeare, in which Michael is rewriting all of Shakespeare’s sonnets […]

Maxwell Baumbach is a writer from Elmhurst IL. He is also editor of the Heavy Hands Ink publication. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming at many journals including Opium Poetry 2.0, Five Fishes Journal, Children, Churches and Daddies, and The Shine Journal. His most recent poem at vox poetica was Rainbows: Fact or Fiction. Youth at Its Finest […]

Manny Beltran’s most recent poem at vox poetica was Morning Poem and it appeared in July. You’ve also seen his art paired with different pieces and as the cover for the first Contributor Series. His poem today begins in one place and ends someplace totally different.   The Kiss By Manny Beltran I gently close my eyes, […]