SUNRISE, IN A RABBIT HOLE

By Robert WitmerTokyo, Japan SUNRISE, IN A RABBIT HOLE available on Amazon. I expected something more grandiose than this rusty little gate with a broken latch. Maybe not grandiose, given the early emphasis on humility, but anyway something more befitting the occasion, more … revelatory. But here I am in the altogether, naked as the day I was born, though quite a bit more … developed I should guess, wondering whether to wait for someone to let me in or a great voice calling from on high or maybe just the soft bleating of a lamb, or perhaps I am supposed to…

Silence is Consent

Edited by Christopher BogartPaperback, 384 pagesPublished April 6, 2025ISBN - 979-8315258650Available on Amazon Editor’s Introduction This poetic anthology is designed to be a platform for poets from across the fifty states as well as the US Virgin Islands, to speak out against; and, in resistance to, Project 2025, as well as the agenda of Donald J. Trump. The poems in this anthology are as diverse as the poets who wrote them. Represented in this diverse group are native and naturalized Americans, LGBTQ+, as well as diverse religious, ethnic and regional backgrounds. The poems are in a variety of different styles…

Ninety Seconds to Midnight

A review of Walking Widdershins: An Ode to JoyJenny Ward Angyal & Autumn Noelle Hall (Illustrations by Denver Kennedy Hall)By: Don MillerCloudcroft, New Mexico Ninety Seconds To Midnight.A Review of Walking Widdershins.B.12.2024Download

To Whom It May Concern

By: Joe McKeon Available now at Red Moon Press -> To Whom It May Concern In To Whom It May Concern, Joe McKeon brings the haiku form to bear on social issues in a format that both informs and engages. This work exemplifies the role poetry, particularly short forms such as haiku, tanka, and senryu, and more specifically, the voice of the poet, has to play in the future of this planet and the wellbeing of its inhabitants. A compelling read from cover to cover. Richard GrahnFounder, The Abstractaphy Initiative

Walking Widdershins: An Ode to Joy

By Jenny Ward Angyal and Autumn Noelle Hall Walking Widdershins is comprised of 108 sets of collaborative tanka, a genre of Japanese short-form poetry more ancient than haiku. Historically, tanka were often exchanged between two poets as a kind of poetic conversation. The tanka conversations in this volume were written over the course of a single year and reflect the poets' rootedness in the places where they live, their love for the natural world, and their concern for the havoc the human species is wreaking upon it. In his 'Afterword,' David C. Rice, tanka poet & editor, asks "If the root…