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

A quiet dignity arises from the tacit words of the demure. Strong direct declarative thoughts arranged within the stanzas to maximize imp...

We live in the age of excess with a smorgasbord of literary offerings. This wasn’t the case when I was a teenage girl nerd devouri...

     There are poetry chapbooks hastily thrown together, due to desperation/laziness, and chapbooks edited within a hair’s breadth o...

“The reception of a poem, being a ritual Magical initiation, suffers no interruption. The music must be perfect; hard, maybe, to appre...

         The last time I saw William Stafford ,  we were standing near a table at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival where Muh...

And it was at that age … poetry arrived in search of me Like many poets, I began scribbling verse at a young ag...