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

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

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

“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,”

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

VOX POETICA — Takoma Park’s new poet laureate, Merrill Leffler, is a man of wordmusic.  You will hear it in the poems printed here, and you will hear it