Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic:https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manualSven Ra (also known as Joel Dietz) began writing poetry at a young age with his first complete work "Road to Jerusalem" taking Eliot's Wasteland into the 21st cnetury. He later took up the theme of the Return of Eros with a series of "Erotic Incantations," including several fine art shows for his photography and a full length tarot deck. In a separate and subsequent collection he approached the theme of "Stone Codes," or the wisdom of stone gained from global pilgrimages to Avebury to Machu Picchu. More recently he has returned to the sonnet in his forthcoming collection "Broken Sonnets." He is also a musician, novelist, and academic researcher.