we’re barely a week old, and drying up so fast no one can guarantee the roots you put down will thrive. Let me show off a bit with names like Savannah, named for a tribe of people whose land we built ...

that came before – A separation. We served tacos. Tacos that stained the concrete under which they were served. A stain which will serve as a new kind of reminder of that day for years to come. We are ...

The personal voice of Jack Myers (1941-2009) evokes tremendous life force in the conundrums of dying he contemplated in this final book. “After I am gone and the ache begins/to cease,” opens the title ...

Somewhere in the mushy folds of that thing you call a brain, there no doubt lurks some ancient rhyme just waiting for the chance to roll off your poetic lips, astonishing friends, delighting strangers ...

Karla Alwes, an emerita SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at SUNY Cortland and John Keats scholar, will lecture on how well the Romantic era poet expressed the concept of “memory” on ...

Sometimes, what a poem does not say is the most important part. That’s what Beth Copeland found while writing “Falling Lessons: Erasure One,” a poem that explored her father’s experience with ...

A 9-11 memory and poem, from Sister Cashel Weiler of Rochester: Sept. 11, 2001 was my first day of a fall vacation. I live in Saint Marys Convent in Rochester, and glancing at the TV, I thought it was ...

We are like flowers and don’t last forever. Quietly like thunder, beautifully like a river, Like a cloud, you passed through our world. You were right; Rivers will always outlive us. Grief always ...

Poetas al Marjen’ does not mean marginalised poets. It was a poetry event held at the Rock Hotel on the same day as the Literary festival held a poetry panel. The evening was billed as poetry cabaret ...