by Wendy Videlock

I should be diligent and firm,

I know I should, and frowning, too;

again you’ve failed to clean your room...

 

Editor's Note from Susan de Wardt: What better way to celebrate Mother's Day than by taking a look into a child's room. Enjoy this engaging poem on parenthood: Disarmed by Wendy Videlock.

 

 

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Editor's Note from Thomasz Czepaitis: For most people that are sent to prison, life effectively ends. Yet for poet Dwayne Betts, getting sent to jail for eight years when he was still a high school student was the start of a remarkable journey to become a writer, speaker, and poet. We had an opportunity to interview Dwayne while he was speaking at the Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing. His story is inspiring and a great reminder of the power of your dreams – writes Christina Cooper, editor of this video.

 

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by Federico Garcia Lorca

Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on the mountain.
With the shade around her waist
she dreams on her balcony,
green flesh, her hair green,
with eyes of cold silver...

 

Editor's Note from Thomasz Czepaitis: This poem caught me in my young years as the best love poem I've ever read. Thanks, of course, to the excellent Russian translation by the now late A. Geleskul (I am half Russian) but the hard emotional rhythm of the flamenco guitar is heard in the Spanish original even by the stranger, and the images, colored with Green... are vivid as paintings, as films, so strong is its influence on listener.

 

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by Már Cipriani

Tennessee Williams said, "I'm only really alive when I'm writing." Writing, like love and wisdom, is self perpetuating. That is to say, the more one loves, the more love one has to give; the more wisdom one culls, the more wisdom is available to that person. Likewise, the more one writes, the more prolific one becomes as a writer. The words, like the love and the wisdom, are more than limitless; they are self-perpetuating, which is a wonderful thing...

 

Editor's Note from Barbara Lazarony: A cure for the common Writers Block...

 

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An Interview with Sean Zio for Xtra! Canada's Gay and Lesbian News

Poet Sean Zio started the Creative Writing Play Date in 2007 as a way to expand on the writing classes he taught for the City of Ottawa. Now celebrating its fourth year, the Play Date has proven to be a very intimate way for local writers to explore their craft and share their work.

 

Editor's Note from Blaze Lazarony: Poet Sean Zio shares "Oppression works best when people are silent about their suffering and when they turn the hate of society toward themselves." He turns oppression to an act of expression, by offering ongoing writing workshops for members of the LGBTQ communities in Ottawa, Canada.

 

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Editor's Note from Barbara Lazarony: Beloved, this is for you...

 

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by Susyn Reeve

Addictions are any habitual psychological and/or physiological dependence on substances, thoughts, behaviors, or practices that you cannot easily control. The automatic obsessive thinking and compulsive behavior resulting from your addictions leave little room for making the conscious creative choices that are the hallmarks of an inspired life...

 

Editor's Note from Barbara Lazarony: It's time to take out your journal and encourage yourself to identify your automatic thoughts and self-defeating behaviors around your addictions.

 

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Art from Ashes is a Colorado non-profit facilitating therapeutic poetry and creative arts workshops for high-risk youth. For more information please visit our website at www.artfromashes.org. 

 

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by Nur Qotb-e-'Alam

I asked that my work might be fruitful, but no!...

 

Editor's Note from Tomasz Czepaitis: On one of the sufi sites these days I get into discussion about a new pope, Francis, and though some people found disgraces in his previous life (nobody is without sin), many hope that he will improve and change the world for the best. One of the hoping ones said that when we put much expectation in smth. or someone, and this doesn't happen, we get angry. But what happens when this happen? I asked.

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Editor's Note: A quick view of how we can reach into our wiser, deeper parts.

 

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by Danielle Ofri

Toxic sock syndrome. That’s the first thing we noticed when we entered the hospital room. For those gentle readers who are not familiar with such sensory assault, toxic sock syndrome is the clinical term for the rank odor that accompanies damp, fetid feet that have seen more street time than shower time...

Editor's Note from Susan de Wardt: Doctor, Writer, Professor of Medicine - Danielle Ofri dispenses poetry to her patients and medical students to remind them that 'medicine (and life) consists of far more' than can be learned in school.

 

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