The first poem I ever wrote that was worth a damn -- and possibly the only one – grew out of the awfullest cliché most of us will encounter –...
The Practice of Poetry
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“Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.”
—John Burroughs
LET THERE BE
LIGHT
TOPICS
Pursuit of Meaning, from intangible to scientific.
- Spiritual Writing
- Sermons
- Biblical
- Wellness
- New Age
- Scientific Writing
- Classics: Blake, Milton, John Donne, etc.
- Myths and Totems
- Philosophical Underpinnings
Journal of the Plague Year (Abridged)
[Editor’s Note: Lorna Dee Cervantes contracted Covid a year ago. Her 2020-21 Facebook posts, even heavily abridged here, offer a personal journey...
Kindness Matters
Editor's Introduction: This post was sent to us in April. Having just been vaccinated, we'd started moving about the world again and so several...
Taxi Tales: Las Vegas
Las Vegas holds a special place in my heart, somewhere between skipping a beat and bleeding out. Vegas is the girl who hid in the back of the class...
Ten things I should have figured out before now
1. There are no monuments to poetry editors. 2. Even if you’re not sure about the whole idea of God, it’s still a pretty good idea to pray every now...
American Dream at Macy’s
My first string of jobs in NYC was waitressing, from Flushing to Manhattan, from Brooklyn to Greenwich, CT. I was fired constantly, because I knew...
The Five-Star Plate
Today, I cried at the nearby mercado here in Oaxaca, Mexico, when I tasted the blue-corn tortillas with huevos con rajas verdes. I’m no foodie and...
The Split Mind of Postpartum Depression
(Originally appeared April 2018 in Motherwell. To check it out and more, click here.)In a quiet, distant voice I tell my husband Mark that I want to...
Quality Time
April 9, 2021 Today I flew out for a performance, one of the first in person (masked, socially distanced) performances I will be doing live in about...
Green Mountain Trail
Isolation has always been my love language, but as soon as I’m stationed overseas (which happens A LOT) or told to social distance, I’m compelled to...
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