Helen Seymour

The Woman With The Wasted Face: Poets, Tread Carefully This Halloween

Please don’t call the police, but I was thirteen when I first watched the fifteen-rated, 2002 version of The Ring. I was at a sleepover with a girl who had once announced: ‘If you’re not wearing a bra by year nine, there’s something wrong with you’, and I was as desperate for her friendship as…

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Joseph Coelho

The Rise of Nature Poems: Joseph Coelho

Poetry and nature writing have often gone hand in hand. African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote beautiful poems in the late 1800’s inspired by nature like Spring Song celebrating that longed for season… ‘And ever in our hearts doth ring This song of Spring, Spring!’ and Seedling… ‘As a quiet little seedling Lay within its…

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