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6 hours ago
1 min

Escaping the Brave New World Part I: Fleeing Huxley's Island

In this first episode, poets David Gosselin and Adam Sedia discuss the nature of tragedy and explore the subtleties of escaping a today's...

By Drew Keane

3 days ago
1 min

Someday, Not Too Long from Now

When someday, not too long from now, the world Is buried under webs of roads unfurled, With layer stacked on layer to the skies — A...

By Caitlin Johnstone

Apr 11
2 min

Aspire to Greatness

Aspire to greatness, but not the kind they teach you about in school. Not the kind where you can all be astronauts and presidents when...

Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World

By Mathew Ehret

Apr 4
6 min

Leaping from Despair into Hope: The Lesson of Rembrandt’s Resurrection for Today’s Troubled World

Today, the world finds itself moving through a turbulent transformation between two systems. Collapsing at a faster rate every day are...

By Daniel Leach

Mar 28
2 min

Dream Time

The clock is ticking in the pallid rays Of ghost-like morning hour’s waning moonlight, And though it orders all my waking days, It has no...

By Adam Sedia

Mar 22
1 min

The Gift of Lilies

If angels plucked up blossoms In endless, light-drowned skies, With curved sextuple petals Glowing radiant white, Pearlescent in noon’s...

The Editors

Mar 21
1 min

World Poetry Day Podcast

Robert Frost once said, "A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom." We could not agree more. In this World Poetry Day podcast, New...

By Michael R. Burch

Mar 14
1 min

Will There Be Starlight?

Will there be starlight tonight while she gathers damask and lilac and sweet-scented heathers? And will she find flowers, or will she...

By Kevin Roberts

Mar 14
2 min

Christine

No longer light, but not yet dark, We stand here in some space between And listen to a meadow lark; Last year she sang so sweet and keen...

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