Susan L. Pollet
Land Grab
History has never been without Land grabs By every group speaking every language worshipping in every religion for every reason On the...
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Kristi Nelson
Kristi Nelson, Ambassador for Grateful Living
I first met Kristi Nelson decades ago when we were both on the cusp of middle age. She had just met my friend, Linda Hannum (who is now...
Linda Castronovo
Lindsay Satchell - Artist and Yogi
Living a Creative Life I love discovering new artists, writers, and creatives. It is even more exciting when a creative person bridges...
Corie Feiner
Cat-Cow Pose
Two Haikus
Corie Feiner
Goddess Pose
When I squat into goddess pose there is so much to reclaim – starting with birth. My birth. Your birth and all the births before us that...
Corie Feiner
Headstand
It is said that the redwood trees walk at night, softly, their roots stepping gently on the fertile soil we thought kept them in place....
Linda Castronovo
Beth's Celebration of Life
June 11, 2023 11:00 AM Lake Harriet Rose Garden Thank you all for being here today. Thank you to Miranda Bryan,...
Elizabeth Castronovo
Angel Stories
(Beth voice-recorded this series of stories for Olivia when she was hospitalized with Covid in September, 2021.) Two people were once...
Jane McPhetres Johnson
Watching Things Unfold
(From a word to a sound, from idyllic to criminal, word-play turns serious when sound meets meaning, and meaning metes meanness.) Folding...
Jane McPhetres Johnson
If So
(This poem is two ragged, diminished “sonnets” in shock to find my life timed to end along with my world.) If what seems to be so is so,...
Jane McPhetres Johnson
So-ing Machine
So she So he So they say So instead So it was So there The old so-and-so So it goes So long And so on And so So La Ti Do Ah so So good So...
Jane McPhetres Johnson
So Moving So
(on the Statan Island-Manhattan Ferry) SO MOVING SO orange so orbital so epochal we are chugging away so fast so doggone slow so touching...
Eileen P. Kennedy
I Feel Close to Nature Too
I Feel Close to Nature Too by Irene Christensen I Feel Close to Nature Too I feel close to nature too earth moves in the hot sky green...
Eileen P. Kennedy
Māori Woman
Māori Woman by Irene Christensen Māori Woman She weaves her fate carefully. Bone and ancient music guide her face marks to solemnize her...
Eileen P. Kennedy
Daydreams
Daydreams by Irene Christensen Daydreams Two enigmatic women, their Botticelli beauty looms undeniable. Like the butterfly they long to...
Dorothy Riehm
Here and Now
A moment tenderly unfolding it could be anywhere, any time, a time when I am truly present not lost somewhere in my tangled mind. Look,...
Dorothy Riehm
I Was Going to Write a Poem
I was going to write a poem but I made a pie instead. It was much easier, and so much more appreciated. I mean, you can eat a pie, you...
Tzivia Gover
A Writer Who Shares Her Dreams
My dreams took up the job of writing coach early on. At twenty-one I wrote in the artists’ sketchbook that served as my journal: “My...
Linda LDuc
Mycelium Flowering
What compels me to sit and write… There are facts, studies, but what is the “push”? Inspiration. Breath in. Expiration. Breath out. Could...
Melissa Shaak
At the Gate
I filmed “At the Gate” at MFA Boston’s Japanese Zen Garden, using a stop-motion technique in which the movements of real people are made...
Marie Lavendier
The Do-Over
We had never rafted before or really spent time in the Southwest. But there we were—a family paddling down the Green River in Utah....
Linda Castronovo
Wild Cats
I was nine years old when we moved to the new cedar and glass house Mom and Jim designed to perch over an intermittent stream in...
George Lancaster
Spreading the Love, One Jar at a Time
Becoming the next caretaker of our family tradition feels distinctly Southern. Not for the act of caretaking, per se, but for what the...
Eileen P. Kennedy
A Sight
a spectator sees unseen things like knowing where new trees grow an accounting for branches ends or where the roots spread their bends a...
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