Carol Mikoda/Education

Carol Mikoda/Education

Callum MacAulay photo, unsplash. com *** At Play in the Fields of Deep Reading: March Poetry Madness   by Dr. Carol Mikoda “Did this guy write any other poems?” “I sure wish the Frost poem had made it to the finals.” “Did you count...
Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Mark Levy/Casual Observer

Yingpis Kalayom, Unsplash *** THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE YELLOW   by Mark Levy As I sit in the dental chair patiently allowing my dental hygienist, whose name is Julie, to clean my chompers, I start to think that I’ve spent a lot of time, energy, and money on my...
Jim Palombo/Politics

Jim Palombo/Politics

   Photo by PeteLinforth (Pixabay) *** GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS   by Jim Palombo The partnership of the Conservative agenda and Donald Trump is on. And the alliance, holy or otherwise, can be confusing. After all neither political nor individual behavior...

Catharine Lucas/Poetry

AFTERMATH Big Sur, California, May 2009 Phosphorescent green flickers against wet dark,             fire in another tongue Memorials of trees, stripped bare, black as mummies, stand witness Leaf-laden alders, parchment ghosts, testify in blanched whispers Our dead...

Alita Pirkopf/Poetry

  TEAHO– USE IN THE JAPANESE GARDEN The young man and the ancient Japanese flute make sounds like breath and wind, like rain and river, make sounds that soar—like birds— sounds that sing— toward evening’s silence, sounds we are told, of water dripping— from...