En Tequila Es Verdad

This is lovely, and says so many things so very, very well.  Go.  Read . Tip o' the shot glass to Neil Gaiman .

Raise your glasses high and toast our own John Pieret, who won The Coffee-Stained Writer's National Poetry Month competition .  And he ...

I do believe I mentioned my own dear heart sister Nicole's holding a contest for National Poetry Month .  Chris Rhetts, a regular patron...

In a moment, here, the Muse will be having her way with me.  But in the meantime, George brought us flowers : Which delight not only beca...

Criminally oblivious piece of shit, innit he ? But Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), who was governor when the state killed Willingham, was appare...

Lesson One: Here endeth the lesson.

Score one for my gender : LONDON – The centuries-old post of British poet laureate , bard to kings and queens, has been held by William Word...

A little hair of the dog? We can't just come off of National Poetry Month cold turkey, and thanks to Chris , we don't have to. A N...

I love haiku. I especially love haiku translations that capture the sense of the original: short, sweet and to the point. Basho Summer gras...

Tomorrow's Poem in Your Pocket Day , don't forget. I'll show you mine if you show me yours. It struck me today that I've be...

There's a story behind Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan." You might have heard it : At the time of its publication, ...

You all know I buggered off to watch House last night. And that's the inspiration for today's poetry. I'm not a huge fan of Wi...

When Simon & Garfunkel songs get lodged in my head, they're usually songs like "The Sound of Silence" or "Bridge Over...

All right, I know we've done W.H. Auden, but this poem came up while I searched for something else, and it delighted me. Therefore, mor...

All right, here it is, the moment none of you have been waiting for: a Dana Hunter original that didn't come from an NP writing assignm...

Every once in a while, synchronicity happens. I've got a scene coalescing in my head for this current story, in which the stark contrast...

The problem with being young is that you haven't enough experience or knowledge to appreciate things. They also don't tell you the ...

I sincerely hope my heart sister NP won't mind me filching her latest, because it made me LOL, and it deserves to be my Poem o' the ...

A lot of people ask what poetry is. What makes a poem? Is it rhyme, rhythm, something else? Two poets, one Chinese and one Spanish, attem...

Poems of a political prisoner today, my darlings. Seemed appropriate, considering the subject of the previous post. Turkish poet Nazim Hikm...