poetry submissions, other featured poets
James Ray is a Google+ poet buddy who came looking for me. It was grand getting connected with him again. The demise of Google+ was a sad day for the poets who were having fun playing around with each other in it. I asked James to share a poem with us. He sent this heartful free-form poem as well as the back story. James says, “I have written my whole life, but never as much and never as public. Yet…
This was supposed to be an easy “nyah-nyah-nyah” sort of post. My plan was to crow about how, despite multitudinous prognostications to the contrary (all those declarations that “OMG! Poetry is dead, Dead, DEAD”), piling words together and mixing them up continues to flow unabated through the world, continues to move and heal a multitude of hearts, continues to evolve and grow and change even in this, our digitally enhanced post-modern world. No extinction is in sight.
This is Fleeky ONE. She’s an Internet buddy who grabbed my hand and enthusiastically dragged me off to play with her. Always a grand thing, I say! Fleeky frequents the Wealthy Affiliates platform, which is a learning place for people who spend their time poking at computer keyboards, building blogs and customer bases and all that stuff, twisting their heads around to learn to deal with all the complexities of that effort. (Most of us who hang at Wealthy Affiliates…
In 2010, Steven Kealohapau’ole Hong-Ming Wong – “the slam poet known as Kealoha” — was designated by Governor Neil Ambercrombie as Hawaii’s first (and, so far, only) official state poet laureate.
MysTerry Randolph is a long-time member of the Maui Live Poets. Very often her simple poems reach out and grab your heart and old memories open up. It’s what she does. About this poem she says, “This just came out of my heart. Wrote it for my brother in Idaho.”
Here is another powerful poem by spoken poet Robert Maxie, Jr. He is sixteen years old and has been writing poetry since the age of seven. He has his own You-Tube site and his first book, BLEEDING INK, was published in 2017. More are on the way…. He says, “This poem is extremely important to me and my life. It’s a constant reminder that I’m not alive to make sure that I do and say what pleases everyone around me. …
Cinthia I. Albers is a fellow member of the Maui Live Poets Society. She’s a lifelong poet with a quirky sense of humor and her own tales to tell. She has laid claim to a “poet husband and a poet cat” and has collected her poems in a series of books that are available on Amazon.
Ever since people started talking to one another, they’ve explored the power of words. The power of LOGOS (the Word) has been the fundamental foundation for building a religion, a culture, a movement, a life. Words can move you. Words can move other people. That’s probably why everybody talks so much.
I was looking through an old poetry journal of mine, looking for something to use in a post. I found a folded sheet with a poem by a dear friend who died recently, Pat Masumoto. The poem was dated September 10, 2015. I remembered that Pat asked me to read this poem for her at a Maui Live Poets gathering she wasn’t able to attend because of conflicts in her hectic schedule. Memories came flooding back and I was missing…
The Twin Poets are identical twin brothers, Nnamdi Chukwuocha (born Elbert Mills) and Albert Mills, with a unique style of poetry that evolved out of their habit of finishing each other’s sentences and the rap and hip-hop of their youth. They are internationally known for their live performances of socially conscious work, including “Dreams Are Illegal In the Ghetto” and “Homework for Breakfast. Their book, OUR WORK, OUR WORDS…: Taking the Guns From Our Sons’ Hands are filled with poems…
