In the wee hours of July 18th, Mercury, our planet of communication and exchange, lip service and slander, poetry and sexting ...

In “Tree Fall with Birdsong,” Kendall Dunkelberg’s fourth poetry collection, we are continually witnessing the melody of the natural world. From warblers to crows to the lakes and swamps of ...

Tourists tossed a stone into the lake, creating ripples that spread across the water. Under the sunlight’s reflection, a shadow appeared on the stone wall. It was as if the poem “Moonlit ripples leap ...

I n the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of detective ...

The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza (Malta: Horizons, October 2024) is a collection of 42 original poems (21 by Ahmed Miqdad, 21 by John P. Portelli) which depict the state of being of the ...

The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza The Shadow: Poems for the Children of Gaza is a poignant collection of 42 original poems by Ahmed Miqdad and John P. Portelli, capturing their emotional ...

I wrote a poem similar to Robert Louis Stevenson’s “My Shadow” about my cancer diagnosis.