Wolfgang Aurose
Wolfgang Aurose. MA, is a German/American author. He studied Anthropology and History in Berlin and traveled as a jounalist for relief organisations in Africa and Asia. For many years he worked as an executive for the international Auroville township network. In Germany Wolfgang Aurose wrote an award-winning book about the German soul with an expanded follow-up volume in the USA. Since 2011…
Andrea Hollander
Andrea Hollander is the author of five full-length poetry collections and three chapbooks. Her many honors include two Pushcart Prizes (poetry and literary nonfiction) and two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Several years after her move in 2011 from the Arkansas Ozark Mountains to Portland, Oregon, she established The Ambassador Writing Seminars, which she conducts in…
Debra Wöhrmann
Debra Wöhrmann finds solace in writing—and inviting others to explore in words. She marvels at the mind’s impact on how we move in the world—and the body’s ability to wake the spirit and alter our way of seeing and being. She lives in Portland, Oregon, and enjoys wandering in the woods or along the coast with her husband and dog.
Dana Sonnenschein
Dana Sonnenschein is a professor at Southern Connecticut State University, where she teaches literature and creative writing. Her publications include Corvus, No Angels but These, Natural Forms, and Bear Country. Recent work has appeared in The Ekphrastic Review, Open: JAL, Permafrost, Feminist Studies, Channel, and Terrain.org’s Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy.…
R. Shawntez Jackson
R. Shawntez Jackson is a native of the Eastbay. He is an award-winning poet, playwright, spoken word artist, actor, educator, and father of Wordsi2i, a dramatic arts community empowerment program. He is described as a vivid story-teller creatively framing and displaying some of the best and worst details of relationships, religion, and sexuality. Shawntez has publications in the Cipactli Journal…
‘My Life Is My Message’ | August’s Featured Poet, a New Podcast, and More
Dear Reader,
The convergence of crises feels dizzying, almost dream-like. Yet, we know the adversity trends we witness are not a dream. The Great Wheel is turning, and even as some aspects of our civilization collapse, collective realization is also on the rise.
How do we wish to 'be with Life' at this time? For each of us, this can look very different. The activist, the seeker, the poet, the…
August’s Featured Poet | Annie Lighthart
As If Pulling Together a Great Complicated Theme
As if pulling together a great complicated theme, two finches make a nest
with twigs and string, line it with fluff from cottonwood trees.
Theirs is a long affectionate aria, an extravagant psalm ending in a forest hut.
Basho on the road hears the work.
Christ also, his hand on his knee.
The full forever goes back and…
KOSMOS LIVE Podcast | Jeremy Lent, The Web of Meaning
KOSMOS LIVE PODCAST SERIES Preparing for Profound Change
This podcast series, Preparing for Profound Change, explores the converging challenges facing our world and offers strategies for coping with what lies ahead. Economic turmoil, climate chaos, political upheaval – these may seem like forces to fear, but in fact offer us deep opportunities for transformation.
Episode 10 – Jeremy Lent,…
Kosmos Summer 2021 Gallery of Poets
Eric C. Hayward
For you, rare earth
Be only as true as the moss,
as the patterns of light and dark on
tree branches and tree trunks when
the sun finds them despite the leaves
Desire only as much as would a fish in a
tank swimming forever
take only as much as everything
wander in the woods wearing walkmans
lie down and be broken open full of iron, like earth
let seeds blast through your ribs
let…
Poetry
Poetry...when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost
Carolyn Martin | Editor
Slant | Vernacular
By Sarah Carleton
Slant
Lately you’ve noticed dust on the piano bench
as each day burns farther at both ends than the last,
the moon hanging earlier in the pale…