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Late Summer

08.26.10 Posted in today's words by

Ann Van Velthoven lives in New Jersey. She doesn’t think of herself as a writer, having spent many years drawing and painting instead. Her daughters tell her they would like to see her return to the visual arts since they are not gifted in that way. Ann says this poem appeared to her and she […]


Flower Anatomy

08.25.10 Posted in today's words by

Rebecca Anne Renner was born and raised in the Sunshine State, where she currently lives and goes to school at Stetson University. While not writing questionable poetry or trying to finish her novel, she volunteers at a wildlife rehabilitation center and complains about the weather. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming at Underground Voices and Liquid Imagination, […]


La Danse Immobile

08.24.10 Posted in today's words by

Michael Turner was born in Baltimore and has spent much of his life traveling. He joined the US Navy after high school and spent the next 28 years traveling from South Korea to the islands of Greece and acquiring his education. Recently retired, Mike spends his time ballroom dancing, doing odd jobs, and writing poetry […]


My Future

08.23.10 Posted in today's words by

John Sherer’s poem A Breeze on Farmers’s Curfew appeared here in July. John asks existential questions that resonate with us regardless of our age. My Future By John Sherer What’s more money going to do When I’ve got enough for my food? What’s a school gonna teach When I can read a book? Why must I run […]


Lake Wyola’s Mile High Farm: Sociology in America

08.22.10 Posted in today's words by

You read Mommy Woes most recently. And then you heard KJ Hannah Greenberg talk about writing and parenting and squeezing 50 hours out of a day on 15 Minutes of Poetry. Today we get a look at childhood not through the eyes of a mommy, but through memory as childhood evaporates in the grown-up realities of the adult […]


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