Poetry: Abundance
Morning light bathes my face and filigrees the edges of leaves like halos. The soul-stirring cry of a red-tailed hawk rings out as she flies searching across the sky. If…
Poetry: A Thin Blue Line
Red — bright red against the clouds a cardinal sits high wavering with the wind Such a thin blue line circles the top of the world :: Kevin Patrick Sullivan
SLO Poetry Festival Turns 40
The San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival celebrates 40 years of creative words with three Saturdays of poetry readings in April. On April 8 at 1:30 p.m. in the SLO Library…
Poetry Out Loud Finals Available To Watch
SLO County Poetry Out Loud Champion Blair Bishop, reciting Victoria Chang's "I Once Was a Child" Editor's Note: Alex Yue of Sacramento County was named this year’s California Poetry Out…
Poetry: Chances
Photo by Abed Ismail Each day I get another chance to stay in the present moment, to be grateful for being alive, another chance to give up sugar, another chance…
Poetry: Winter
Photo by Ioana Kortis Every year as we enter crusty, frost covered mornings and evenings that turn dark way too soon, don’t you want to go back, or hurry through…
Poetry: That Longing To See
Photo by Jeanie Greensfelder After the atmospheric river soaks the Central Coast, I picture the ocean crashing over the jetty at Morro Rock. Once the roads clear, though wind and…
Poetry: The Pond at Sweet Springs
Photo by Jeanie Greensfelder Let me stop being this thinking-and-doing person and become the pond at Sweet Springs where mallards glide and egrets feed. Send me into silence, broken only…
Poetry: The Pickers
The squirrels have not yet found the figs. They stole every single apricot on the newly planted tree in days, even though the roots are fortressed to keep gophers out,…
Poetry: Pink
I’m tired of pink. Pink ribbon. Pink tutu. Pink bikini. Pink baseball bat. Pink pregnancy test. Blue is where it’s at. Blue knows best. Blue is powerful. Blue kills. I’m…