40 days of poetry: Day 29: Spell Against Sorrow by Kathleen Raine
Melanie is back today to read Spell Against Sorrow by Kathleen Raine. How do we drive away our grief, sorrow and fear? Day 29.
View Article40 days of Poetry: Day 30: Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski
Day 30: My dear friend Maureen McCarthy suggested this beautiful poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski. It’s about remembering the good things, which are often small and...
View Article40 days of poetry: Day 31: from When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams
Day 31: Today’s poem is from Terry Tempest William‘s When Women Were Birds and was suggested by Janice Van Derbur. We forget how wonderful the natural world is and how much it needs our gift, our song.
View Article40 days of poetry: Day 32: We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born:...
Today’s poem is by Oscar Gonzales and speaks of youth, when it seems that our elders will live forever and the days stretch on without end, full of joy and song. Day 32: We All Return to the Place...
View Article40 days of poetry: Day 33: Every Time I Climb a Tree by David McCord
Day 33! Today’s poem is Every Time I Climb a Tree by David McCord. Being all cooped up in quarantine, it’s easy to get stuck in the negative spin we see on our devices and forget that there are many...
View Article40 days of poetry: Day 34: Tidings by Czeslaw Milosz
Day 34: Today’s poem is Tidings by Czeslaw Milosz. It’s a beautiful poem about the beauty and tragedy of civilization. How can we even begin to define or describe it?
View Article40 days of poetry: Day 38: Sorrowful Garden by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Day 38: Sorrowful Garden by Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by H. R. Hays. Sometimes it’s just too hard to give voice to what is wrong. I apologize for the delay, uploading was slow.
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Quote for Today: Federico García Lorca
Floating Bridges Oh what a crush of People Invisible, reborn Make their way to into this garden For their eternal rest Every step we take on earth Brings us to a new world Every foot supported On a...
View Article40 days of poetry: Day 40: History Will Remember by Donna Ashworth
The last of our poems for our 40 days of poetry is History Will Remember by Donna Ashworth. Thanks for listening and note that our new Globe-trotting Travel Series begins tomorrow. These are times...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting Travel Series #13: George the Poet in London, England
Day 13 of the Globe-trotting travel series takes us to London, where George the Poet inspires us with an extremely articulate and hopeful case for collaboration in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic....
View ArticleGlobe-trotting Travel Series #28: You Clap for Me Now from the UK via The...
Globe-trotting Travel Series Day 28 features “You Clap for Me Now,” a poem by Darren James Smith, a content writer for Bridge Studios, a creative agency affiliated with News UK. This video comes from...
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Featured Artist: Sarah Jane Justice
Welcome energetic and incisive performance poet Sarah Jane Justice from Adelaide, South Australia. Her video poem, Longing, is an honest, hard-hitting look at how society turns its back on those in...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting Travel Series #30: If the World Was a Movie by Hannah Flores...
Day 30 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features a fantastic first film and video-poetry offering from a very talented American teenager, Hannah Flores the Poet, If the World Was a Movie. Nothing...
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Featured Artist: Jonathan Yungkans
Say hello to Synkroniciti regular Jonathan Yungkans, who has three gorgeous poems in the new issue! Not the Smoothness, Not the Insane Clocks on the wall is a humorous, pop-culture laced take on the...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting Travel Series #32: Calligraphy Artist Denis Brown, Dublin,...
Day 32 of the Globe-trotting Travel Series features a fantastic multi-layered art project combining poetry, calligraphy, glass etching, film and animation by Denis Brown in Dublin, Ireland. Denis is a...
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Featured Artist: Yolanda Movsessian
Welcome back photographer, digital artist and poet Yolanda Movsessian, one of our Houston rockstars. Her poem Dicing onions by the stove at the old house or When life was simpler, is an examination...
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Featured Artist: Kuzhur Wilson
Kuzhur Wilson is a leading voice in modern Indian poetry and created the first blog for Malayalam poetry. After living as a journalist in Dubai for a decade, he returned home to Kerala. In 2016, the...
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