by James Roberts | Mar 10, 2021 | Magazine Article
As with his two previous poetry collections, Sailing To Ithaca and The Giving Of Pears, Abayomi Animashaun’s Seahorses does not hesitate to present stark truths in real-world settings. Seahorses begins with a poem titled “Aubade” in which Animashaun transforms the...
by Dawn Hogue | Mar 8, 2021 | Magazine Article
First cited in the sixteenth century (specifically in a book called Dice-Play), the expression [brown study]—which describes a state of intense, sometimes melancholy reverie, really seems to have hit its stride in the nineteenth.—From “Golden...
by Heather Swan | Mar 4, 2021 | Magazine Article
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame …Crying What I do is me: for that I came. —Gerard Manley Hopkins, “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” The news came just as I was about to walk into a classroom full of students. An emergency room doctor explained in a calm...
by Joey Grihalva | Mar 4, 2021 | Magazine Article
Dasha Kelly Hamilton is on a mission. She is leading a poetry workshop in Port Louis, the capital city of Mauritius, a tropical island about 1,200 miles off the southeastern coast of Africa. Sunlight pours into a narrow room as a group of young people listen to Dasha...
by Hope McLeod | Mar 3, 2021 | Magazine Article
On a typical November morning during herring season, Brian Bainbridge hops on board his commercial fishing boat at 5:00 am, hits the lights, and fires up the engine. Crew members emerge from the darkness, one at a time, to take up their positions on the deck. They...
