April showers bring May flowers, or so conventional wisdom would have us believe. But for those of you disheartened by flowerbeds still too puddle-muddied to bloom, there’s no need to count the days ...

Gustavo Hernandez's new book of poetry from FlowerSong Press is deeply rooted in Orange County. Its works explore the ways ...

If we’re going to celebrate literary birthdays in February, it’s hard to dodge the birthday of James Joyce (1882–1941) on February 2, if only because Joyce is, well, Joyce. Over the past few decades, ...

The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his or her own band. James Schuyler was, perhaps, the Velvet Underground of verse: ...

I fled a burning archipelago in the rain, on my mother’s back, in another war or perishes in a thicket of words. And so, speaking as one of the flowers, I’ll seek rest in falling. I’ll seek asylum in ...

On Valentine’s Day, what could be better than a puzzle that combines flowers, poetry and secret codes? By Sam Von EhrenAndrew Dore and Robert Vinluan In Victorian England, flowers were sometimes used ...

This poem appears in Maneo Mohale's collection, Everything Is A Deathly Flower, published by Uhlanga, 2019. Maneo Mohale reckons boldly with the experience of - and the reconstruction of a life after ...

For the 26th year in succession M. Prabhu of Udhagamandalam, a poet, has distributed copies of his poem ‘Kaatchiku Varatha Kadhambangal’ to visitors at the just concluded annual flower show, in ...

Poetry forever grants us leaps and blurs. Sometimes it’s not enough to be where we are. Sometimes we need to be everywhere: present with the lost, held by transient blossoms. Jan Beatty’s new poems in ...