Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women's Arts and Writing Journal

  Bio: Ann Privateer is a poet, artist, and photographer. Some of her recent work has appeared in Third Wednesday , and Entering, to name a...

Volunteer   I left this poem behind in the prison where I volunteer once a month. I couldn’t bear to take it with me. I never finished it. I...

She has been in the burning frost of the highest peak to unlock the deepest secret and to release the bittersweet sorrow. In her upward fall...

  We are all earth’s children all we need is air &                                 spring ocean is hectic possessing land brazenly open ...

  I heard that in Savannah Georgia during the time of the yellow fever many victims would slip sussurating breaths rattling like leaves into...

                                              "Leaves of a Feather"                                                               ...

  Nothing as it was is how it now goes - Peggy Dobreer/ Forbidden Plums It’s an almost accepted global truth that our lives have been divide...