John’s ladder lies waiting. A poem and an appreciation for John Moffet,who died June 27.

Thousands in the streets
March against injustice without retreat
To change the status quo
Agitate, disrupt and provoke
It is what protests do
Bodies like sand pebbles on a beach
Side by side as far as the eyes can see
Step by step peacefully into the light
While chaos ensues in shadows of night
As if armed for war
Police engage and show their might
Restraint succumbs by those enraged
Staining the streets as well as the cause
Yet, without such mayhem and threat

Island poet KT Herr leads a free, weekly online poetry writing workshop Fridays beginning May 8.

Keep washing until hope shines through

Ankle deep, soles balancing on eelgrass beds.

The off-season Poetry Cafe returns this weekend at the Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse with a new name, Poetry & Pie.

Every morning now he comes and sits beside me.

A dozen poets gathered at the West Tisbury Library to remember Judith Neeld, who died in April at age 90, read her work and celebrate her recently-published career anthology.

There will be a celebration of the life for the poet Judith Neeld on Tuesday, June 11 at 4:30 p.m. at the West Tisbury Library.

Justen Ahren has always been a musician as well as a writer, releasing his first album Remembering more than 20 years ago.