hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 4th February, 2026 poet of the month:  Neal Whitman in winter nightfall is much like the dropping of a theatre curtain the show is over, go home Eucalypt 33, 2022 Distinguished Scribbler chosen by Amelia Fielden despots fear poets who welcome readers to have the last word — a rule of dictatorship is to control the narrative red lights, June

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 28th January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day status update about orienteering with his daughter his gift of a compass after I lost my way Ribbons 9:1 (2013)   waiting all day for sunlight to lose its blue wavelengths the camera lens picks up each intrusion of shadow Skylark  2:1 (2014)    I examine the creases on the palms of my

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 21st January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day Land’s End The county road peters out in the parking lot of a lobster pound, but the land keeps going, jutting into the bay. To get to the summer cottages visitors travel a double-rutted dirt road that narrows to a single mud-packed path around boulders on the final approach to the mud

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 14th January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day clear night, owl night through the tissue of darkness an exchange their grip of honed surfaces my sinew and bone Tangled Hair 3 (2001) This is an example of a 1/2/2 shift. a songbird’s nest held all winter to the sky now the greening ash fills in between its branches somet

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 7th January, 2026 poet of the month:  Cherie Hunter Day limbs after leaf fall we sort out solutions to x and y whole numbers without any remainders for Want (2017) Ornithopter Press so few women make careers in science through a microscope the beauty of an amoeba as it changes shape Tanka 2020, Red Moon Press (2020)   Cherie, we thank you w

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 31st December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey it’s said an apple  doesn’t fall far from the tree  but then  I was born on a hill  with a sharp incline   Gusts, Fall/Winter 2017   all I need  in the conversation of clouds  they too  talk of comings and goings   and moments in the sun   Ribbons, Tanka Café, Winter 2010 Simple Gifts

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 24th December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey she always said  “stop by for a spell”  the widow  who collected cats  and knew each herb by name   Published: Ribbons, Winter 2009 I understand   the perfection   of imperfection…   I fold his favorite shirt   carefully, stains and all   Skylark, Winter 2015     Michele, we thank you

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 17th December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey as if  there were magic yet  in this world  the syncing little lamps  of fireflies in the field  Ribbons, Autumn 2018   constellations  formed by fallen leaves   of a sweet gum...  I reach down  to touch the stars    MET, Spring 2008    Michele, we thank you warmly for sharing your po

hosts:  Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our   Wednesday Feature! 10th December, 2025 poet of the month:  Michele L. Harvey I can hear them crashing through the underbrush and breaking branches those imps of unbridled ire who bide in my monkey mind Red Lights, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2020 do not fret over living a quiet life silence is what every note needs to make music Eucalypt Issue 34, 2023, Scribble Award win