That is a lovely, fundamentally hopeful notion, but a sigh of melancholy echoes through the poem. “Of Mere Being” is one of ...

I declare myself free from all malevolent thoughts. Free from telling myself things I would never say to someone else. I know I make mistakes. I know I am not perfect. I know I am human. Would I judge ...

through the fields of my mind. in the night. Vivian Stolz is a 19 year old poet and college student residing in Lake City. The Post Bulletin publishes poetry by local and area writers every Tuesday.

Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out ...

I came to my love of books through both my father, who is a former poet laureate of Connecticut, and my mother, who credits a childhood love of reading for helping her resist a family cycle of ...

Sometimes a new book by a poet whose work I've admired for a long time will send me back to that poet's previous books. So it was with "Absence & Presence," a collection of poems by Lisa Steinman, ...

With vigorous wit and clarity, Diana Marie Delgado writes scenes of growing up in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. The poet traces the rich voice of identity through the turbulent ...