When my search for coming of age poems came to not very much, I made a poetry plea on my Facebook page for poems that speak to, or speak of, teenage girls. Imagine my delight when someone actually wrote a poem for Rites for Girls.  Now Vanessa Karl has written two! Puberty Puberty by Vanessa [...]

Sometimes I find that a poem can express something in such a way that it reaches me deeply; more deeply than if it were all explained out in prose. A poem can convey a mood, reawaken a memory, and allude to a host of experience.   A bit like a simple smell can take me [...]