Jeffrey Grunthaner holds a BA from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program and lives and writes in Manhattan. He is known to read at various venues in New York City, where he is routinely showered with roses and violets. This poem takes us, as the title says, into a landscape. So far into a landscape that the […]

Robert CJ Graves has given us such a range of things to think about! From a remembered life (No Swimming) to the quest for meaning (Look for Jack Buddha) to the space between love and hate (The God of Apathy), now he takes us to Ireland and back in a manner of speaking. Queen Learjet […]

Happy St. Patty’s Day! Before you start with the wearing of the green and the Erin go Bragh-less and all that, let’s take a minute to remember that Ireland has given us more than Guinness; Ireland has given us great words. May the good Lord bless you with fine drink, good music, and great company […]

A love poem by John Lavan? Well surely all John’s poems are love poems. You’ve read them (A Birth; Handicapped Son; Table Mountain, Cape Town), and you’ve read his blog, so what do you think?   Bright Star By John Lavan Love’s not bright and constant but only cheese on toast; a little glance, returning […]

Gary C Beck is a New York writer whose poem Tempt Me Not appeared at vox poetica in 2009. A man of many trades, Gary also writes on many topics. Today’s poem deals with the flip side of a flip old chestnut. How often do we play a story out to its conclusion before embarking […]