How do you define HOPE?Sheila Black’s poem and the painting by artist Jay Dalvi offer their inspiring interpretations. Martin Luther King, Jr. said “We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope.” HopeBy Sheila Black It is treacherous like picking your way acrossa field with bits of glass or wirehidden under high grass. Today the clerkbehind the Plexiglass …
Jim Lavilla-Havelin’s short and to-the-point poem is a wise little fable. Its companion here is Lucia LaVilla-Havelin’s delightful piece “Look Skyward” (hand-embroidered cotton floss on linen, vintage postcard). The rabbits don’t see it but danger is chasing them…. Run Rabbit: A Cautionary and Prepositional Tale for School Administrators By Jim LaVilla-Havelin Fox, blood-mouthed, slinks out from under after feasting …
Alexandra van de Kamp’s poem Dear Time is a poem you’ll want to reread multiple times to discover all the subtle surprises woven into her verses. Alexandra is well known in San Antonio and beyond as the executive director of Gemini Ink, but she is also the author of two poetry collections and a translator of women poets from Spain. …
Rod Carlos Rodriguez , whose poem is featured today, is the founder of the Sun Poet’s Society, San Antonio’s longest running weekly open-mic poetry reading. He is the author of three poetry collections, including his most recent, “Native Instincts” and the poetry editor of Ocotillo Review published by Kallisto Gaia Press. The adjoining image requires no explanation. Like Rod’s poem, …
Today’s poem is a ghazal by San Antonio poet and novelist James Dennis whose first poetry collection, “Correspondence in D Minor” was released in 2016. This ghazal poem is from his forthcoming collection “Listening Devices.” James is also the winner of the recent VOICES DE LA LUNA inaugural Harold Rodinsky Memorial Poetry Contest. The beautiful “Blue Smoke” painting is the …
We believe that many readers will easily connect with the thoughts and feelings expressed in Jean Hackett’s poem we are publishing today. The featured artwork “Hiding” is by the Colombian-born artist Sandra Mack Valencia whose imaginative, whimsical work is currently on view at the AnArte Gallery in San Antonio. The Not So Maddening Crowd By Jean Hackett I was the …
Today’s poem is by Octavio Quintanilla, the 2018-20 San Antonio Poet Laureate and the poetry editor of VOICES DE LA LUNA. And the art work is also Octavio’s. He calls his drawings/paintings “frontextos” and this one is named Los Dias Oscuros #29. (To read more about Octavio and his art, check out the Interview Express with him on this site.) …
Today’s moving poem is by San Antonio poet Kathleen Hudson. The photo of the tree included here comes from Bett Buttler, San Antonio’s best known jazz vocalist, who took this picture before the majestic tree was cut down by developers to make room for a small shopping center. She and her composer husband, Joel Dilley, loved the tree that stood …
Today we are featuring an eloquent short poem by San Antonio poet Lahab Assef Al-Jundi which was first published in the anthology “In These Latitudes” edited by Robert Bonazzi, in 2009. But, we feel, it has a message that may resonate with readers during this time of fear and crisis. The anonymous photo of a boy kicking the soccer ball …
We are grateful and excited that our Monday poetry features have been welcomed and embraced by readers. Today’s poem is by San Antonio poet Diane Gonzales Bertrand and we paired it with Andres Ferrandis’ “Sunrise,” an imaginative compositional collage currently on view at the Ruiz-Healy Arts gallery. Hope Is an Essential WorkerBy Diane Gonzales Bertrand Hope zooms in rectanglesthrough family …
