Ailill’s most recent poem to appear here was Inspiration (October 2010). The Guests at the Feast By Ailill These castle walls, meant to serve and protect, reject the knocking of the friend, allowing the enemy to enter within. At the midnight hour, calling upon his powers, deceptively, the adversary enchants, be-spelling the inhabitants into a trance. When […]

Galit Breen is a writer freezing in Minnesota. On any given day she can be found juggling 3 children, 1 husband, 1 puggle, and 1 laptop. Visit her blog. Footsteps Through Fall By Galit Breen Leaves crinkle beneath my feet. Air crisps against my cheeks. Bonfire smoke dances towards my heart. I glimpse splashes of color […]

This is Betty Ruth Speir’s first poem to appear at vox poetica.  Intensity By Betty Ruth Speir I am drowning in intensity Letting down my bucket, far too deep for sunlight At times drawing it up full of murky waters it has struck. I love too hard, feel too much And victimize myself With my […]

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure, James H Duncan is a New York native, part-time Taoist, and the editor of Hobo Camp Review. A frequent haunt of all-night diners, used book shops, dive bars, and train station platforms, his nocturnal transmissions of poetry and fiction […]

Chris G Vaillancourt’s most recent poem to appear here was At Life’s Doorstep (August 2011). The Silence of This House By Chris G Vaillancourt The silence of this housespeaks volumes about the peoplewho used to live here.I contain the fragmentof their memory.They speak to me,only I hear them.Only I respond.They remind me of the helloand goodbye of […]