Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae untitled By BR Belletryst I. Bottle fed from Mother Goose’s pinion; I romped in Dahl’s and Seuss’ playground. Frequent trips to libraries for paper hugs from literary friends Matilda, Stargirl, Julie and her wolves, I grew up with Brian Robeson, and shrunk again with Alice’s potion. II. Then fed with fire from […]
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Ode to Spring Sestina
Jean Hendrickson recently gave us a love poem (To a Past Love), an homage if you will to winter (Oh February), and a coming-of-age story (Escape). It’s only fitting that she should be the first writer to tie up some different pages here as well. She writes today of spring in a lovely form. After […]
On the Stand
Some would say Telly McGaha is passionate, low key, unpredictable, charged, and has a great relationship with karma; he would say he really has too much creative energy and not enough time to channel it. His vices are bluegrass and bourbon, so he chose to return to Kentucky, where he now lives with his partner, […]
The Old Man on the Bus
Mark William Jackson made his debut at vox poetica with Greatest Story Ever Told and you may have read his blog. In Mark’s own words, “The Old Man on the Bus is a journey poem; the geographical destination is irrelevant, the real journey is psychological.” The Old Man on the Bus By Mark William Jackson A […]
The Only Way Signing Could Kill Us
Linger over this gem of a poem by John Lee Clark. John lives and writes in St. Paul MN and you will surely remember the poems of his that you have read here (Winter Baseball, For My Growing Twin Sons). John tackles some complex themes in his poetry. Here he considers the limits and values […]
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