Category Archives: 30 for 30 Poetry Celebration

I Object I’ve become my mother, my grandmother. I dodder, outpaced. AARP texts me. I can’t even, as the kids used to say, five decades ago. Hard boxes under my thin-skinned fingers. Concepts for which I can’t find words. Maybe … Continue reading →

In The Age of Alexa: Florescent Sun, Clock For A Heart They’ll never know, These children of the future, Our same silence again, The light on their leaf passes away, Small flowers between my fingers stay, While the luminescent moon … Continue reading →

Mouse Voice The phone gave you to me. It pulled a hundred voices over a line and left me yours. What did it say? Nothing I wanted to hear. A death laugh, a creaky plea for understanding when it had … Continue reading →

Love, Not Alexa Love, if you were like Alexa I could turn you on as easily as pressing a button whispering into your ear press another button to change channels when intimacy became too much to bear or press pause … Continue reading →

Shopping In the international market, a woman is asking for cardamom pods, chilies, those lovely yellow mustard seeds. In her buggy are chicken thighs, chard, lemons the size of my fist. Her toddler’s legs dangle and kick as he eyes … Continue reading →

Once again, April is here and I am once again celebrating National Poetry Month with my fifth annual 30 for 30 poetry extravaganza.  This year we have some returning poets, such as Grace Cavalieri and radio personality Dennis Price,  as … Continue reading →

Thank you to all who have signed up for this year’s 30 for 30 National Poetry Month Celebration. We now have 30 participants and are closed to further participants. The 3o poets who will be submitting poems are: Pia Borshiem … Continue reading →