The Cusp of the Year by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist Look back: What have we learned from history? (Why do we have to repeat our screw…
The Poets Voice: December 2014
Winter Light by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist We are in the time of Phos hilaron, gracious light. Evening’s phosphorescence through skeletal trees arrives around 5:15. This…
The Poets Voice: November 2014
Bravo Soulspeak! by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist Soulspeak was happening at The Rainbow Mountain School auditorium on State St. the last Saturday of September. There were…
The Poets Voice: October 2014
Cock-A Doodle by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist The roosters made me do it. Before “the cream of my brain has risen to the top” (as Virginia…
The Poets Voice: September 2014
Sky Writing by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist It’s all because of clouds. Poets can’t help themselves. The names of clouds are poetry: Cirro-cumulus, Cumulo-nimbus, Nimbo-stratus, for…
Gratitude is my word for the month
The Poets Voice: August 2014 by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist My husband and I just returned from a visit to West Texas. I am grateful for…
The Poets Voice: July 2014
Craft Heaven by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist The cusp: a potter at her wheel, wood turner at his bench, weaver and loom, blacksmith and forge, fiddler…
The Poets Voice: June 2014
Not a Book Report by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist My bookcase has two shelves of books by single poets, (Akmatova – Zonatelli), one shelf of anthologies,…
The Poets Voice: May 2014
“Behold Me! I Am May!” by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist Greetings Word Lovers, what are you working on today? Has Spring inspired a Villanelle, Sonnet, a…