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My Passion Is a Beast

08.06.09 Posted in today's words by

Troy Trenton Dangerfield speaks with the voice of youth. He is a junior at Syracuse University, fluent in the language of America’s young, knowledgeable about technology, gaming, and sports, but equally at home with philosophy, literature, and music. This is his first published poem. It is honest and alive and it vibrates with the unjaded […]


Happy Birthday Percy Bysshe Shelley!

08.05.09 Posted in Birthdays, today's words by

You all know what today is: the 217th birthday of Percy Bysshe Shelley! You also know that he died just shy of his 30th birthday and that is a sad, sad thing. You also know that he is acclaimed as perhaps the finest poet of all time, that he was a Romantic, that he left […]


Weeds

08.04.09 Posted in today's words by

You’ve read his work here before (Birdsong) and you will read it again. Bryan Borland will be featured in the upcoming Ganymede One, the first ever annual anthology published by the quarterly journal Ganymede. He is also hard at work finding a published home for his first ever chapbook, Little Black Book (click here to […]


Community

08.03.09 Posted in Observation, today's words by

Jean Hendrickson lives on the lip of the amazing Chesapeake Bay, where she writes prose and poetry in bad weather, and in good, if she just cannot resist. Her work has been published in Powhatan Review, NOO Journal, Roux Journal, Moondance, The Daily Press (of the Virginia Peninsula), Reader’s Digest, and several other publications. Reading […]


Sagres, Portugal

08.02.09 Posted in today's words, vox poetica originals by

Sagres, Portugal By Annmarie Lockhart Sagres, At the tip of Portugal: Land meets sea, Sun turns sea to salt on the rocks Sparkling atop the sharp edge of the world.


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