Cassie Premo Steele is an award-winning poet and writer, who has authored 5 books and hundreds of poems and essays on mothering, creativity, healing, and nature. She has taught in university and community settings for 13 years and now leads workshops and coaches individuals through her Co-Creating business. Her column Birthing the Mother Writer appears […]

Shelby Wedelich writes in Lake Jackson, TX. Her poem speaks the language of youth and the story it tells is of standing in the space between child and grown-up, energized and hesitant all at the same time. It is the story of youth looking forward, not the story of youth as told backward. As you […]

Ray Sharp has contributed his varied poetry to these pages, but this one is very unlike the others. To be reminded of his ranging talents, read Sternwheeler, Clavicle, (  ), Under an August Moon, and Threnody for the Survivors of September 11, 2009 and his blog, The Bard of Liminga. To get your head in […]

It is an extraordinary honor to inaugurate this page with the art of Manny Beltran and the poetry of Dr. Louis de Paor! Dr. de Paor is the Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway. He is an acclaimed poet whose work has won many awards. He is the […]