Poems by Ryan Service & Alisha Goldblatt

Vita Poetica Journal

Ryan Service reads his poem, "Lux," and Alisha Goldblatt reads her poem, "Guarding the Body."

Ryan Service is a full-time priest and sometime-poet based in the Midlands (UK). His work has been published in Theology, The Sociological Review, and other journals. He received a prize for his entry in the Jack Clemo poetry competition, and before training in Rome he read English at the University of Warwick.

Alisha Goldblatt is an English teacher and writer living in Portland, Maine, with her two wonderful children and one lovely husband. She has published poems in the Common Ground Review, River Heron Review, Burningword Literary Journal, and others, and essays in Stonecoast Review, Wisconsin Review, and MothersAlwaysWrite. Alisha writes whenever she can and gets published when she’s lucky.