(Nine Poets Speak) Metacrisis by Harriet Ann Ellenberger

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Photo by Cassandra Moore, on Unsplash; Cassandra Moore (@cassanova) | Unsplash Photo Community MetacrisisThere is Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) The Creatrix Story Re-spun by Michele J. Celello

Deep inside Mount Etna, red hot lava spurted towards the cosmos.The blood of our beloved sacred Pachamama-Gaia,fed the galaxies above for three days.Galaxies spun in opposing spirals, making love,birthing new Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) Hear Our Cries by Arlene Bailey

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Art by Katherine Skaggs, Katherine Skaggs Visionary Artist, Shamanic Healer, Spiritual Teacher Author’s Note: I Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) Breathing Smoke by Harriet Ann Ellenberger

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Photo by Benjamin Lizardo on Unsplash Horizon to horizon, the sky is covered with haze Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) The Spiral’s at Hand by Annie Finch

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] My sisters, we’re burning —but not in that fire! The spiral’s at handwhere  we love, Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) Place of the Next Light by Arlene Bailey

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Art, Meraylah Allwood, InANutshellArt, https://www.etsy.com/shop/InANutshellArt I’ve held it all in,all the hopes and dreams,the cries Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) The Trees by Maria Fama

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Trees on Juniper Street, Philadelphia, PA photo by Maria Fama I place my hand on Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) The Voice by Louisa Calio

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] You have found it, sister Your scattered powers reclaimed Concentrated In the silver waves of Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) Echidna by Susan Hawthorne

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Photo credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Short_beaked_Echidna.jpg indomitable indomitable Echidna lives in the deepest caves of Earth her home Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) Sisters by Mary Saracino

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Demeter and Persephone Roman Forum photo by Mary Saracino Some sisters are bound by blood Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) Woman Know Thyself by Arlene Bailey

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Art by Amanda Lindupp, https://www.facebook.com/sacredpathart The life of the woman whohears the call of the wildand Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) Amulet for Women by Annie Finch

Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here. Annie Finch reading at ASWM conference in San Francisco Women have voices it’s time to Read More …

(Nine Poets Speak) My Body is a Mouth that Says by Louisa Calio

[Editors’ Note: Learn about how the “Nine Poets Speak” series came to be in place here.] Photo of Louisa Calio by Sylvin Nesbit Too long has the longing of the body Read More …