hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 18th February, 2026 poet of the month: Neal Whitman waiting on the dock a woman holds a placard with my name on it I am put in her arms my mother is singing to me Eucalypt 15, 2013 Distinctive Scribbler chosen by Julie Thorndike wishful thinking that long ago I would find my touchstone — today crossing a bridge it was right beneath me red l

hosts: Firdaus Parvez, Kala Ramesh, Priti Aisola & Suraja Menon Roychowdhury Introducing a new perspective to our Wednesday Feature! 11th February, 2026 poet of the month: Neal Whitman dogs on the beach happy to be with other dogs — at the airport how much I despise all those other people Kernels, Summer 2013 one summer morning the circus came to town by nightfall my best friend and I made plans how we could join the troupe Diogen pro Kultura Magazi

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