R Martin Basden is able to capture a moment and bring it to us whole, a wonderful skill for a poet! He is an Albright Poet from Virginia and the most recent poem of his that you have read here was Broken, Haiku of Injured Relationships. When you read this you will feel like you’re on […]

John Lavan has written love poems, scary poems, and amusing poems (Bright Star, Table Mountain, Cape Town, Handicapped Son, A Birth). Today he gives us a Father’s Day poem, written, refreshingly, from the viewpoint of a father writing about his sons. More love song than tribute, this poem is a bold assertion of love from within the very […]

Val B Russell is a Canadian writer who gives us words to think about delivered with a quick wit (POEm, Circular Motion, Tic Toc). To see more of her work, check out her recent publication, Cockroaches and White Bread in the inspiring Referential Magazine. And don’t forget to stop by her blog.  Oscar and I By Val B Russell Oscar has problems […]

Robert Louis Henry lives and studies in Tennessee. He writes poems, prose, and ditties. He’s editor and handyman at Leaf Garden Press (if you haven’t read that publication yet, correct that situation quick because you’re missing out). Robert doesn’t care enough to update to digital television. He maintains a blog about writing, publishing, and other stuff. This poem will […]

Clarissa McFairy, aka Clare van der Gaast, is a Cape Town journalist whose hobbies are writing short stories and French poetry. She doesn’t blog, but she does post work at her Facebook page, where she lets her imagination take wing. Her favorite spot to hang out is The Rupert Brooke Group where her chance remark […]