Priyanka Bhowmick is a housewife from India, an amateur blogger, and an online freelance writer of poetry. She is focused on improving her poetry and finding publication for her works (she sounds like someone most writers can relate to!). To see more of her work, check out her blogs at blogspot and wordpress. Today she speaks of the […]

You read Silence by Mike Berger back in April of 2010, and you will remember it as an exploration of sound with equal elements of complaint and humor added to the mix. Today Mike’s poem isn’t leavened with humor; instead, it is an evocative exploration of grief.  Darkest Hour By Mike Berger The evening slams shut; no […]

You will remember Joseph Murphy’s poetry as being elegant, powerful, and connected. His most recent poem, The DeSoto, was included in Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae. His poem today will elicit strong memories of summer storms in all readers. His take on that storm is imbued with much that is unwritten though. Read this, write a […]

Val B Russell has been known to give us humor, sadness, and musings on the creative. Sometimes all in the same poem! Her most recent contribution to these pages was the witty Oscar and I. Val is working on multiple projects and her writing is finding its way further out into the reading world. There will […]

James G Piatt’s most recent poem here was My Identity, which was published as part of Contributor Series 5: Dramatis Personae. Never afraid to plumb the sadder depths of love and life, James takes us to those dark corners again today. He writes of the regrets that emerge at a final good-bye, and the wishes one […]