Michael Richmond is a 25-year-old sailor. He hails from Dallas, but has been stationed in Norfolk VA for the past 5 years. He has written all his life but got into writing poetry a few years ago. Michael is currently working on two different books of haiku, the themes of which are not primarily nature […]

A New Englander by birth and disposition and trained as a psychologist and minister, Kenneth Weene has worked as an educator and psychotherapist. His poems and short stories have appeared in numerous publications, and an anthology of his writings, Songs for my Father, was published by Inkwell Productions. Ken’s novels, Widow’s Walk (click here to read an excerpt, here to hear an […]

You have read Manny Beltran’s poems and seen his art here and elsewhere. His untitled poem appeared here as part of Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae and his art will grace the cover of the first contributor series anthology (set to be released any minute!). In this poem he describes waking up to a sad reality and […]

Kit Johnston is a freelance science and medical health policy and research writer and editor who lives in an old farmhouse in Piedmont VA overlooking the eastern Blue Ridge Mountains. She has been writing poetry for many years but has rarely submitted for publication (something we at vox poetica would like to see change). To […]

This is the fourth Jasper Ballard poem to make an appearance at vox poetica. The last one we saw was She Thinks back in May. The struggle he writes about today is relatable in some way to just about anyone who has ever written. At a certain point many would say compulsion overtakes inhibition and we stop […]