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March 30, 2012 · 1 Comment

VOX POETICA: The poetry of losing weight

VOX POETICA • BY MERRILL LEFFLER What does poetry have to do with losing weight? Stay with the paragraphs that follow and I’ll try to chart the path that led me there. It began with my annual resolution to read …

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VOX POETICA: Sing and louder sing

January 19, 2012 · 1 Comment

VOX POETICA • BY MERRILL LEFFLER The New Year once more: we have rounded the board, passed Go, and are off again with fresh resolutions and resolves, new

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VOX POETICA: Ordinary enchantments

December 5, 2011 · 4 Comments

Here we are at the nearing end of another year, the shortened days, the street lights coming on early, the bundling up against the cold, the season of

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Poetry and standing witness

November 10, 2011 · No comments

Whether we read or write poetry regularly or only in that fabled blue moon, many of us go to poems when there’s a need and prose will just

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Poetry and lift

October 31, 2011 · No comments

“In a dark time, the eye begins to see,/ I meet my shadow in the deepening shade” -- these are the opening lines to “In a Dark Time,”

Merrill Leffler with his Roscoe Magnus, a poem that roosted in the Takoma Park streetscape.

The mind of a poet

September 14, 2011 · 1 Comment

VOX POETICA — In my mid 20s, I began keeping an occasional journal – it was a place to write poems whenever the muse’s call came in but

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