This week's poem is by Brian C. Felder, a widely published poet currently writing from his home in rural Delaware. If you’d like to contribute original poetry to Humanist Voices in Verse, write to write@thehumanist.com... Read More

INTERREGNUM AND CORONATION, a villanelle* by Neil Doherty The villanelle has a strict rhyme scheme and the first and third lines are repeated several times over six short stanzas. The formal nature of this type... Read More

  Leonardo Da Vinci, took his place across the tiny aisle from me, and buckled the belt of his seat. I was certain it was him. Too timid to speak, I listened as he told... Read More

[caption id="attachment_18103" align="alignright" width="250"] Hasui Japanese Woodblock Print Shimoda 1937[/caption] The moon’s a fat convict of the stick-stalk trees then escapes, a desperado loose in the yard, a bruising undresser of raw light, naked of... Read More

We are grateful to be In a universe in which stars Are born and over time will die Giving forth the elements of everything. We are grateful to be On a planet orbiting a star... Read More

My Father Asks Me To Go To Church and write the day’s hymn numbers on a sheet of yellow paper. He read about a woman who won the Powerball this way. I take the paper,... Read More

This week’s poem is by Mario Dante Bartoletti, a retired psychologist from Georgia who is currently writing his memoirs. If you’d like to contribute original poetry to Humanist Voices in Verse, write to write@thehumanist.com with... Read More