Sometimes, modern air travel is chaotic and can feel like the experience is stripped bare as we pass through an indifferent system that promises freedom. I think we can all relate to elements of this poem that hopefully capture the demonization of our journeys beneath the glamor of the travel culture.

A free verse poem with an internal rhyme scheme looking back on the startling surprise and raucous nature of mating iguanas on a metal roof in Costa Rica.

A series of ramages gives an account of observation while caught in a rainstorm within the bar island community of Puntarenas, Costa Rica. The poem is really about vulnerability, especially in this area. The pirate Chipperton journaled to have arrived at a "Punta de Arena", or “Sandy Point” in 1720, referring to its long, needle-like surface threaded miles out into the Pacific.

In the company of best friends and with hearts for all things Latin America, several of us stumbled into this unforgettable “experience” in the streets of Antigua … so much more than a bar.

This poem is about place, as an observer from a high-speed train crossing from Germany into the Czech Republic. It is a poem of speculation and imagination as I move across the car in the waking hours.

A prompt-fed poem looking at the horrors of an evacuation crisis in Afghanistan fed by a sudden change of direction in foreign policy.

The poem accounts for a Mexican border town antique store. Written in the Villanelle poetic form, the poem is about hope and the joy of discovery in vintage possessions.

The late Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate, Gabriela Mistral, was born this week in 1889. This series of free-form haikus follows my journey into her Andean birthplace, deep within the Valle de Elqui.

Poetry has a very particular relationship with time. Sometimes we can feel the instance of a curious corner of an experience, even from years past.

This poem is written in the classical sonnet form. The setting is northwest Costa Rica, following an afternoon excursion from the Pacific Coast up into the mountains of the Hojancha canton. This area was originally inhabited by the Chorotega indigenous tribe, who occupied the Nicoya Peninsula during the pre-Columbian era; their tribal reach extended to Lake Nicaragua.