This sestina poem reflects and validates my own personal experience as a 14-year-old who was dealing with something I couldn’t initially even name; anxiety.
Humor acts as a defense mechanism, a pressure release valve, a teaching tool. As a heart surgeon, I have used laughter for all these reasons.
"I see myself as someone whose organic inquiry and teaching are shaped by radical love, and I am willing to let myself be changed by my students."
Poems As a Form of Powerful Activism and Barrier-breakers is a compilation of three poems which mean a lot for me.
The dynamic taking place in these poems was autoethnography, a hybrid of my investigation of the 1960's coupled with my personal experience.
As two authors/playwrights exploring this small island on the East Coast of Canada, we write to share our own experiences and perspectives.
You will find ten poems by ten Albanian poets (mostly women poets) from Kosovo and Albania and our diaspora, translated into English by me.
The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents Author’s Memo “The Wave” examines the problem of pleasure and...
The poems in this collection are a reflection on my zero waste aspirations (and the values behind the movement at large).
I offer the following five poems to you. I hope that when you read/hear them you see a way into your own stories and ideas of poetic voice.
There are multiple approaches to find one's poetic voice depending on the lens one chooses as a part of the author’s creative process.
Within the context of this poem, I tried to explain what was happening to my body because of SLE and what I was thinking.