Stars of Orion
Moon behind cloud screen
Faint in January sky

--Haiku by Kathy Gilbert

POETRY

Writers on Writing Selections

Shears and Machetes
by Denize Springer
a prose poem on removing the weeds in your work to find the poem underneath​
Scent of Wet Words​
by Heather Saunders Estes
a poem which sensually describes how poetry is formed​
If You're Lucky
by Allen Wilson
a poem about battling your muse​

Bay Area Stew

POETRY WITH A FLAVOR OF THE SF BAY AREA
The Ocean Beach Sentry
by Mary Heldman
a poem about a seagull guarding Ocean Beach
Number 27 to Taco Nirvana​
by Elsa Fernandez
a narrative poem of a mad bus ride through San Francisco in quest of a taco ​
Love on a Shelf
by Mike Lambert
a speculative poem of love between lonely poems and lonely people​

More Poetry

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The Floating World
by Steve Surryhne​
​an existential poem on the continuous flux and movement of our world
What Is There to Say?
by Richard Simmonds
a poem about the mystical connections we form with our fellow creatures​
Spring Beckons
by Mary Heldman
​an imagistic poem celebrating the onset of spring
Struck by Lightning, Or Not​
by Heather Saunders Estes
a personal poem about how lessons learned in early life resonate later
Searching
by Stuart Habley
​​a poem about bringing hope and tomorrow together
What a Dream
by Stuart Habley
​a poem about the illusiveness of dreams
Dreamweaver
by Kathryn Goldman
​a photo-poem about a child weaving dreams as she weaves fabric
Three Things that Make Life Worth Living
​by Corey Weinstein
​a sometimes jocular poem about the so-called small pleasures​
Matisse at SFMOMA​
by Steve Surryhne
​a poem about experiencing three Matisse paintings​
​Memory of Richard​
by Vivian Imperiale
​the first of two poems on love, loss, and acceptance​
Every Day I Woke Up​
by Vivian Imperiale
​the second of two poems on love, loss, and acceptance
Studmuffin Blues
by Rodney J. Shapiro
​a pulsating poem comparing a blazing past with a reduced present
Lost and Found
by Rodney J. Shapiro
​a poem where one is lost and taken into the dreams of the other
Comfort for the Dead
a poem about the death of a friend
by Corey Weinstein
Flying
​a photo-poem on becoming free​
by Kathryn Goldman
Eating a Hotdog in a Cocoon​
​by Margaret Liddell
​a personal poem on teenage acquiescence to segregation in 1950s Ohio
Haiku
by Kathy Gilbert
A haiku evoking cool moonlight and solitude
(published in the header of this page)
click to read kathy Gilbert's bio or comment on her haiku (page header)
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​Kathy Gilbert received her MFA from San Francisco State in 2013 after a career in public transport. She received the Marc Linenthal Poetry Award in 2012 from SFSU and won the SF Browning Society Gita Specker Award three times for her dramatic monologues. She was commissioned to write a play for the 2015 SF Olympians. Her one act Delphin and the Children of Amphitrite was performed at the Exit Theater.  She also tutors third graders, studies tai chi, practices yoga and swims.
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​The Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual arts by members of OLLI at SF State.
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