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  • A Sonnet’s Unlikely Resolution

    tweetspeakpoetry.com
    Karen Swallow Prior
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:40 pm
    Where would we be without resolutions? Accomplishments would be only accidents, stories incidents just strung along, music mere unending notes, and poetry but a jumble of words. Resolution puts all the pieces together like a completed puzzle. John Milton’s famous sonnet, “On his blindness,” begins in puzzlement. The speaker (the poem is autobiographical; perhaps we dare say the poet) is pondering the account he will give when he stands before his God for the use he has made of his time and talents. But how unjust! He has suffered the loss of his eyesight—before even half his life is…

  • Private and Profane

    Poem of the Day
    Poetry Foundation
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    By Marie Ponsot

  • Long-distance lorry driving inspires poetry

    Poetry News
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:12 am
    IT'S HARD to imagine two more opposite occupations than tanker driver and poet. But Derek Sim does them both.

  • You won’t always be scared of the moon

    bentlily
    bentlily
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:19 am
    You will grow out of playing with spoons and eating paper you won’t always be scared of the moon but there is wisdom in your newness after all they say the moon was born of a collision a rock roaring into Earth perhaps you are close enough to the ground to remember we say, look a pretty balloon in the night sky but perhaps all you see is debris suspended white bone.

  • The Mo-Man - Candidate of Choice

    IndieFeed: Performance Poetry
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The Mo-Man on IndieFeed Performance Poetry.  Show number 973.
 
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  • You won’t always be scared of the moon

    bentlily
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:19 am
    You will grow out of playing with spoons and eating paper you won’t always be scared of the moon but there is wisdom in your newness after all they say the moon was born of a collision a rock roaring into Earth perhaps you are close enough to the ground to remember we say, look a pretty balloon in the night sky but perhaps all you see is debris suspended white bone.

  • Begin

    bentlily
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:16 am
    Plant words like seeds carelessly toss them in lumps eyes closed over your shoulder be generous you have ideas to spare trust that your mind like soil will adhere to the best ones the ones that promise ripe images that breathe on their own your job is not to pick the perfect word this is not surgery it is the rowdy garden of your creativity you only have to begin.

  • The tantrum

    bentlily
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:54 am
    I always wondered how I’d react mortified angry stunned and there it happened today on a patch of industrial carpet at the airport hundreds of people waiting for their planes with nothing better to do than watch the tantrum and I found myself also watching my lovely son contort like an electrocuted noodle apoplectic about not being allowed to ride the escalator alone. I tried to pick him up but he seemed to have no bones so I squatted in tight and that’s when I began to laugh not at him really more at the profound humility of the moment and the uncanny similarity his poses had to modern…

  • The stranger in the hotel lobby

    bentlily
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:01 am
    He was tall thick good hair a football coach kind of man then he stood up and wobbled flask visible inside his coat his laugh too loud he asked me to talk with him a little longer you’re so happy he kept saying as if it were a question he went to shake my son’s hand but stopped and said in a voice suddenly quiet but as clear as gin he makes me want to start over.

  • The sacrifice of a tree

    bentlily
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:36 am
    Restless leaves peeling bark it’s as though the trees feel them stories crawling upwards like water from the earth waiting to be released waiting for the forest to surrender its life for a book.
 
 
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    Wade on Birmingham » Daily Haiku

  • pastry crash

    Wade
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The sculpted tower of sugar shatters into bitter, sweet pieces. Read more haiku. Subscribe via RSS to Wade’s Daily Haiku. Or have it delivered daily by e-mail.

  • the accidental lab of the fifth dimension

    Wade
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    Somehow, the students found laws of the universe heretofore unknown. Read more haiku. Subscribe via RSS to Wade’s Daily Haiku. Or have it delivered daily by e-mail.

  • the warrior class

    Wade
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The soldiers trudge through their ordered routine of long days, boredom and shock. Read more haiku. Subscribe via RSS to Wade’s Daily Haiku. Or have it delivered daily by e-mail.

  • the persistent caller

    Wade
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    He would ring up the clerk throughout the week, only to find the line dead. Read more haiku. Subscribe via RSS to Wade’s Daily Haiku. Or have it delivered daily by e-mail.

  • loose lips

    Wade
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:00 am
    The office gossip thrives on chaos and lives for schadenfreude and snark. Read more haiku. Subscribe via RSS to Wade’s Daily Haiku. Or have it delivered daily by e-mail.
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    Lorna Dee Cervantes

  • Lorna Dee Cervantes TONIGHT UC Berkeley Featured Poet, Holloway Poetry Series, 315 Wheeler Hall, 6:30 pm!

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:24 pm
    TONIGHT! THURS, Jan 26, 6:30 pm, UC Berkeley Campus, Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room 315. FREE! Lorna Dee Cervantes will be the first Featured Poet for the Holloway Series in Poetry, reading with PhD student poet, Javier O. Huerta. (Look us up on Facebook!) I hope to see you all there! Tell your friends! I'll have copies of my new book, CIENTO: 100 100-WORD LOVE POEMS and, if they arrive, copies of the collection of critical essays on my new work, STUNNED INTO BEING: Essays on the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes which includes recent interviews. I'll be reading mostly new work tonight, including…

  • "More Than 100 Facts For The 99%"

    30 Nov 2011 | 3:00 pm
    More Than 100 Facts For the 99%Ninety nine percent of all life formsthat have ever existed are now extinct.99% of The Universe is plasma.Ninety nine percent of all schoolshave computers. 99% of all Shakespeare'splays have been tapped out by virtual monkeys.Ninety nine percent of all Santas are jolly,merry and kind-hearted. 99% of alllawyers give the rest a bad name.Ninety nine percent of all felonies are settledby plea bargaining. 99% of all problems in communication start with misunderstandings.Ninety nine percent of all marijuana eradicated in the US is feral. 99% of all new online…

  • Lorna Dee Cervantes Book Launch for CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems in SF 10/27

    26 Oct 2011 | 3:13 pm

  • Lorna Dee Cervantes's 1st Book Release Party in 30 Years THURS 10/27 at Kaleidoscope, 3109 24th St., 8 pm!

    25 Oct 2011 | 3:46 pm
    I'm having a BOOK PARTY & You're invited!Lorna Dee Cervantes's San Francisco Book Release Party 10/27/2011 Thursday, October 27 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm kaleidoscope3109 24th StreetSan Francisco, CA Come hear Lorna read her latest poetry and celebrate the release of her new book on the last thursday night in October!Lorna Dee Cervantes will be selling, signing and reading from her new book Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems in the intimate performance space at Kaleidoscope in The Mission District of San Francisco. This venue is a close walk east from the 24th Street BART station. Refreshments! Cool…

  • CIENTO: 100 100-Word Love Poems Just Released From Wings Press!

    19 Sep 2011 | 8:24 pm
    Order your copy direct from the publisher, Wings Press now!
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    Surroundings

  • Two Manuscripts and Three Magazines

    Rob
    15 Jan 2012 | 3:16 am
    I’ve been trying not to neglect this blog. I have ideas, no shortage of things to write about. But the last week or two have been so busy that I’ve had to prioritise other poetry-related activities.First of all, I did a bit of work on a chapbook manuscript and then decided it was finished (or as finished as it was going to be before submitting it). I now have submitted it for publication and will just have to wait and see what happens.Secondly, I’ve been hard at work on reading and evaluating Magma 53 submissions. I’ve enjoyed it at times but it’s been hard going too. The…

  • All the Rooms of Uncle's Head: Fact and Fiction

    Rob
    5 Jan 2012 | 6:32 am
    My review of All the Rooms of Uncle’s Head by Tony Williams (Nine Arches press, 2011, £6) is up at Sphinx issue 19, together with reviews of the same pamphlet by Jon Stone and Nikolai Duffy. Oddly, the same Nikolai Duffy review, slightly extended, also appears at Stride magazine.One issue that emerges from the reviews is whether the background to the poems is fact or fiction. The description on the pamphlet’s back cover says:The maker of these strange pieces was an inmate of an asylum somewhere in Central Europe in the first decades of the 20th century. His fevered versions of the sonnet…

  • A Politically Correct Nativity

    Rob
    22 Dec 2011 | 7:58 am
    Joseph and Mary, in strict alphabetical order, which does not in any way imply that earlier letters are superior to those which turn up later in the alphabet or vice-versa, were on their way to Bethlehem, a small town in an area today known as the Holy Land, also known as the Non-Denominational Land, which includes all those who prefer through choice not to belong to any particular denomination. Moreover, we acknowledge that this is a positive choice as opposed to a failure to consider fully which particular religious or secular system or any other system of any description happens to suit…

  • My Favourite Poetry Collections of 2011

    Rob
    21 Dec 2011 | 4:33 am
    Well, these may be my favourite reads of 2011, but I may well have chosen a slightly different line-up yesterday and might feel tempted to change some of it by tomorrow. However, they are all good books and come warmly recommended by me, whatever that means.10 Notable Collections Notes for Lighting a Fire – Gerry Cambridge (HappenStance)Hurt - Martyn Crucefix (Enitharmon)Pandorama – Ian Duhig (Picador)Six Children – Mark Ford (Faber)Selected Poems – Jaan Kaplinski (Bloodaxe)Finger of a Frenchman – David Kinloch (Carcanet)The Frost Fairs – John McCullough (Salt)Unfinished Ode to…

  • Do We Need the TS Eliot Prize?

    Rob
    14 Dec 2011 | 3:44 pm
    I’ve been watching the furore around the TS Eliot Prize develop and have been wondering what’s it’s all really about. The administration of the prize is funded by Aurum (it used to be funded by the Poetry Book Society, whose arts council funding was abolished earlier this year), an investment company which specialises in hedge funds. Two shortlisted poets have pulled out in protest: first to go was Alice Oswald, closely followed by John Kinsella. The other eight nominees have stayed in.Alice Oswald gave her views here in The Guardian. Gillian Clarke, head of the panel of judges,…
 
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    qazse

  • Goodbye Joe…

    qazse
    22 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pm
    You are going to a place of perfect knowing and forgiveness.

  • Is Your Candidate an Armageddonist?

    qazse
    1 Jan 2012 | 2:26 am
    Belief in the The Apocalypse of John asserts peace is unattainable until the “second coming” of Christ. That until there is a worldwide conflagration; until a Christ lead theocracy emerges - peace is  impossible. How can an Armageddonist work for peace without furthering theocracy?

  • until

    qazse
    11 Nov 2011 | 10:39 pm
    but until there are no soldiers we have all died in vain

  • Winter Stars – by Sara Teasdale

    qazse
    29 Oct 2011 | 1:18 am
    Winter Stars By Sara Teasdale I went out at night alone;  The young blood flowing beyond the sea Seemed to have drenched my spirit’s wings—  I bore my sorrow heavily. But when I lifted up my head  From shadows shaken on the snow, I saw Orion in the east  Burn steadily as long ago. From windows in my father’s house,  Dreaming my dreams on winter nights, I watched Orion as a girl  Above another city’s lights. Years go, dreams go, and youth goes too,  The world’s heart breaks beneath its wars, All things are changed, save in the east  The faithful beauty of the stars. Source:…

  • 14 Apr 2011 | 3:36 pm

    qazse
    14 Apr 2011 | 3:36 pm
    forgiveness exercises the soul
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    GotPoetry.com News

  • "Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes."

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:12 am
    While the poet herself does not seem to have a web page, Davis' slam poetry is being noticed in slam poetry circles as well as on Tumblr.Link!

  • Poetry and yoga in Dolores Park

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:11 am
    Poetry News: Janey Smith is one of our favorite poets (and blog commenters), so we were excited to find this curious bit of performance on YouTube.Link!

  • Leonard Cohen sings the blues

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:09 am
    Born in the tiny English-speaking quarter of Montreal, Cohen published books of poetry before embarking on a singing career with his debut album "Songs of Leonard Cohen", featuring such tracks as "Suzanne" and ...Link!

  • Long-distance lorry driving inspires poetry

    28 Jan 2012 | 4:06 am
    Poetry News: IT'S HARD to imagine two more opposite occupations than tanker driver and poet. But Derek Sim does them both.Link!

  • Modern Romance Hits a Speed Bump and Gets a Twist in New Verse Novel for Adults

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:37 pm
    Poetry News: Kenya D. Williamson explores family, romance, independence, friendship and women's fears of intimacy through poetic fiction in the new book "Depth of Focus: The Stanzas & A Novel." Kenya D. Williamson merges prose and poetry in her new novel about relationships and success with a rhythm made obvious in the opening of her 612-page book, "Depth of ... (more)Link!
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    Blogsboro Poetry Club

  • I'm Interviewed At Poets United

    12 Jan 2012 | 3:07 pm
    I was honored to be interviewed as part of Poets United "Life of a Poet" series. It's fairly comprehensive and includes some fun photos and limericks. So if you'd like to know some of my deep, dark secrets, here it is. :)

  • Maybe you'd be happier with the T-4

    25 Apr 2011 | 10:06 pm
    Being sent spanking back to poverty, we expected scenes like this. One feels that the windy neighborhoods are more exposed to the way the planet spins. We may have used this cutting edge pool robot for two seasons. It needs a little tightening of screws. Come and see us in our new location: Mountain Hill Wheeled Estate Homes for Those who Can't Get a Loan. You know the route.

  • haiku

    4 Dec 2010 | 8:18 am
    listening to the sonorous... read more

  • Pursuit

    2 Dec 2010 | 9:50 pm
    I was irresponsible almost obsessively so I watched the grass grow green on the back porch then turn gray with the stone

  • Can I injure my eyes by crying?

    20 Nov 2010 | 7:10 am
    crying and traumatic globe luxation? precursors for tears during sex?
 
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    international exchangefor poetic invention

  • Q-Literary Museum 2012: Spiritual Flamenco PodQcasts & Archive.org

    22 Jan 2012 | 7:53 am
    In this year that begins Q-literary Museum invites its visitors to see a programming in progress that includes the publication online of its poem in video Spiritual Flamenco, 2009 Nosside International Poetry Prize in the channel of the prize:http://www.youtube.com/user/PremioMondialNosside?email=share_video_userSpiritual Flamenco is a "spiritual"-fusion on the sensitive life of flamenco inspired by forms of complex interaction with organic fields that give materiality to the writing - through quantum poetic language - developed by her Author. The multidisciplinary poem is a symbiosis of…

  • REM, issue 2

    25 Dec 2011 | 6:58 am
    REM Vol. 2, December 2011, is now online: http://remmagazine.net/sieverts-issues/and available for purchase at Lulu: Colour Print: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/rem-magazine-volume-2-december-2011/18778699 Black and White: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/rem-magazine-volume-2-december-2011-bw-version/18778721 featuring:Rosaire Appel, Carlyle Baker, Miriam Larsen-Barr, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, John M. Bennett, Michael Berton, John Bucklow, Valentina Cano, Stephanie Christie, Barnaby Dromgool, Raymond Farr, Carl James Grindley, Marco Giovenale, Mariangela Guatteri, Kristina Hard,…

  • lettere grosse, issue #05

    20 Dec 2011 | 9:31 am
    http://letteregrosse.blogspot.com/ http://issuu.com/letteregrosse https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=181536898932

  • EXPERIMENT-O, issue #4

    27 Nov 2011 | 2:14 pm
    http://experiment-o.com curator: Jamie Bradley  

  • Márton Koppány and Jim Leftwich, Book of Numbers

    10 Nov 2011 | 4:55 pm
    http://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2011/11/marton-koppany-and-jim-leftwich-book-of.html
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    Poetry of Life

  • Alone

    Praveen
    10 Jan 2012 | 4:33 am
    the sound of silence grows, every minute feels like a hour, every hour feels like a day, as i sit in in the cold light of morning; its far too late, too late to pick up my heart from the floor, as it lay in pieces, right where you threw it yesterday night; little by [...]

  • I Wish I Could Fly

    Antara
    27 Dec 2011 | 7:54 am
    lonely and sad my mood again swings with a wish that if I had wings in a flash I would fly high and high in the sky happy and free in the clouds where glee and joy knew no bounds to a land unknown of grief and dismay and make my heart feel happy and [...]

  • Love or Lust?

    Praveen
    1 Dec 2011 | 3:09 am
    it was love at first sight, the moment i met you, sparks flew and brought us, closer and together; barely a minute goes by, without me thinking, is this too good, to be true; i pinch myself from time to time, just to make sure i am not dreaming, and not hallucinating all this, between [...]

  • Together

    Praveen
    2 Nov 2011 | 12:01 am
    just you and me, holding hands and looking into each other’s eyes, it’s been a while, it’s been a long time; lost in this madness of life, closer but farther away, from each other, i don’t know what to do; alone and lost, this dream is all that keeps me alive, keeps me and you [...]

  • Love at First Sight

    Praveen
    9 Oct 2011 | 7:41 am
    i had my mind made up, i was sure of what i wanted to say, and i was very sure of how it was to end; this time it was different, i came, i saw and i fell, in one big moment, hook, line and sinker; I never believed in Love at first sight, believing [...]
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    Poems and Poetics

  • Jerome Rothenberg – A Bibliography of Published Translations

    Jerome Rothenberg
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    [The following was recently compiled & is posted here as anindication of the range of translations – solo & in collaboration & by nomeans complete – over the last fifty years. (J.R.)]From GermanNew Young German Poets (Celan, Grass, Enzensberger, Heissenbüttel, Bachman),City Lights, 1959.Rolf Hochhuth, The Deputy, Broadway playing version,1965, Samuel French.Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Poems for People Who Don’t Read Poems (translatedwith Michael Hamburger and the author), Atheneum, 1968.Eugen Gomringer, The Book of Hours & Constellations,Something Else Press,…

  • Outsider Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (34): Hannah Weiner as an Outsider Poet

    Jerome Rothenberg
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:34 am
    In constructing an assemblage of “outsider” poetry there is a point finally at which the work of contemporaries has also to be considered. I have felt constrained here by a determination not to confuse “outsider” with some sense of the “marginal” or “alternative” as defined in contrast, say, to another assumption of “mainstream” or “normative” or even (god help us) “canonical.” Here, it seems to me, one principal characteristic (but only one) of outsiderness, as I’ve come to understand it, is a difference of mind or body that results in a range of…

  • Charles Stein: A Poem and a Note from "From Mimir's Head"

    Jerome Rothenberg
    16 Jan 2012 | 8:54 am
    The Hat Rack TreeYour old hatsitson the hatrack treeas the plumesof the treegrow dryand wind unravels them. "No windis the King's wind."Now you go to buy some newhat. Should it bejust like it?A new hat sits like a plumeon the hat rack tree.There is a birdon that lady's hat.Pluck its felt?Or shred the brittle veilthat hangs from the brim?It is a crow(not my crow).Something not aliveon the hat rack tree.What can I do with this?What can I sell?Come all comersto the hat rack treeand see the lady's hat with blackstuffed crow.Odd--but the crow's eye liveswith terrible raysand the feathers shinewith…

  • Jerome Rothenberg: Ezra Pound, the fascist temptation, and those who came after (some comments reprinted)

    Jerome Rothenberg
    12 Jan 2012 | 8:29 am
    The following was in reply to Tenney Nathanson’s query – March 16, 1996 on the Electronic Poetry Center listserv – about my own statement that “the most telling impact of Ezra Pound's work was on poets who politically and morally might have been at the greatest distance from it.” To start with my own experience – growing up when I did – the presence of Pound in the late 1940s was, to say the least, a bewilderment. I was stunned by much of the poetry, both by how it read (the language of it) and by what I heard it saying: anti-war and anti-capital and powerful too in its…

  • Outsider Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (33): Han-shan, from The Cold Mountain Poems, translated by Gary Snyder (ten poems & preface by Lu Ch’iu-yin)

    Jerome Rothenberg
    8 Jan 2012 | 8:10 am
    Preface to the Poems of Han-shanby Lu Ch'iu-yin, Governor of T'ai PrefectureNo one knows what sort of man Han-shan was. There are old people who knew him: they say he was a poor man, a crazy character. He lived alone seventy Li (23 miles) west of the T'ang-hsing district of T'ien-t'ai at a place called Cold Mountain. He often went down to the Kuo-ch'ing Temple. At the temple lived Shih'te, who ran the dining hall. He sometimes saved leftovers for Han-shan, hiding them in a bamboo tube. Han-shan would come and carry it away; walking the long veranda, calling and shouting happily, talking and…
 
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    Wild Horses Of Fire

  • Creative Speaking (Syllabus)

    Thom Donovan
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:23 pm
    Course descriptionThe following course is intended to present a variety of ways of thinking about the relationship between writing and orality, with special attention to composition methods generated through (constrained) embodiment, conversation, performance, and extemporization (improvised speech and utterance). As will be discussed at length throughout the class, the relationship of speech to writing is by no means simple, mediated as it is by technologies of technical reproduction (typewriter and tape recorder in particular, but more recently text messaging, Skype, and other technologies…

  • Does the Document Promise?

    Thom Donovan
    21 Jan 2012 | 7:55 pm
    -for Steve Siegel, in remembranceCrying onto the documents doesn’t make for very good metadataDo you believe me when I tell you I am crying while I type this poem?"The introduction of writing does not teach us how to remember better, just gives us an excuse to forget," said the Pharoah to his scribe upon presentation of the new inventionAll the tenses of this earth are wrong todayWondering if everything in heaven will be searchable or whether it will be like totalityNo need to search because everything is known instantly, all good and cruel deeds like angels on the head of a pin, even…

  • Marathon reading of The Making of Americans (at Triple Canopy)

    Thom Donovan
    18 Jan 2012 | 3:11 pm
    In celebration of the opening of 155 Freeman, Triple Canopy is pleased to present a marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s enormously long and allegedly unreadable novel The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress. This weekend, starting on Friday at 7 p.m., an invited list of New York–based artists, writers, publishers, scholars, and other collaborators will gather in Greenpoint to perform the entirety of Stein’s text in a continuous read-in, expected to last 48 hours, more or less.

  • Multifarious Array Winter/Spring Schedule

    Thom Donovan
    18 Jan 2012 | 3:02 pm
    Winter/Spring 2012 line-up@Pete's Candy Store709 Lorimer StreetWilliamsburg, Brooklynhttp://multifariousarray.blogspot.com/_______________________1/6-Noah Eli Gordon, Sommer Browning, Harmony Holiday, and Steven Zultanski1/20-Josef Kaplan, Brian Ang, Laura Elrick2/3-Kendra Grant Malone, Matthew Savoca, Brett Price2/17-Timothy Donnelly, Anselm Berrigan, Camille Roy3/16-Michael Robins, Adam Clay, Ada Limon3/23-Anelise Chen, Andrew Levy, Ken Walker4/6-Michael Robbins, Angelo Nikolopoulos, Carley Moore4/20-Todd Colby, Kate Schapira, Leigh Stein5/4-Sam Truitt, Carter Edwards, Frank…

  • THE HOLE, a Gathering (at St. Mark's Poetry Project)

    Thom Donovan
    13 Jan 2012 | 9:09 am
    Friday, February 10, 201210:00 pmReframing the “book launch,” Thom Donovan and Brett Price offer a night of consumption, conversation, reflection, and performance around Donovan’s book, The Hole (Displaced Press, 2012). As Donovan has written to participants about the event: “I would not like to read from the book, so much as I would use the book’s appearance as an occasion for conversation around its contents, as well as an opportunity for friends, colleagues, and loved ones to gather.” Participants include Melissa Buzzeo, CAConrad, Rob Halpern, Brenda Iijima, Madhu Kaza, Robert…
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    A Poetry Magazine | 32 Poems » Blog

  • Matt O’Donnell: An Interview with the From the Fishouse Creator

    32poems
    16 Jan 2012 | 4:11 pm
    I (Deborah) had the pleasure of interviewing Matt O’Donnell via email about the From the Fishouse website. I’ve always admired people who started unique web projects related to poetry— No Tell Motel, Anti-, Verse Daily, CellPoems, etc. 1. What led you to start Fishousepoems.org? Fishouse started entirely by accident. It started as a way for me to memorize poems on my commute to work. I asked my friend Camille Dungy if she’d record for me. Honestly, at this point, I forget exactly how we came to it, but we decided it’d be cool to get a couple of recorders and send them…

  • Meet George David Clark, New Editor

    32poems
    3 Oct 2011 | 8:34 am
    Dear Readers, My relationship with 32 Poems Magazine began some time ago when a poet friend slipped an issue into my hand and demanded I stop what I was doing to read the lyric he had just come across. The poems I found those pages stood out for their sonic complexity and the freshness of their idiom. Unlike the other journals I read, 32 Poems, in its unique focus on the short lyric, maintained a consistent and compelling identity. The poems one found there seemed strategically chosen, its poets part of a community, not linked by school or aesthetic but by special attention to the language.

  • Bidding Goodbye to John Poch; Hello to George David Clark

    32poems
    2 Oct 2011 | 5:12 pm
    Dear Poetry Readers, After almost ten years of editing 32 Poems Magazine with Deborah Ager, I am stepping down. It is no small step for me, yet I do believe it is, as well, a step in the right direction. First, I want to thank all the poets who submitted work to the magazine during my tenure. I owe gratitude to not only the poets whose poems were accepted but also those poets who sent in work that just somehow wasn’t a fit. What a blessing to realize the great diversity of American poetry in our midst. I have been acting as some kind of magazine editor for more than 15 years now…

  • Confession Tuesday: The New Guy

    Joshua Gray
    20 Sep 2011 | 5:26 pm
    I just agreed to be blog editor for 32 Magazine, and so here starts a new venture for me. I confess that I am quite nervous about this new position I am taking on with 32 Poems. I confess that I am afraid I’ll mess it up somehow, whatever “it” is. I confess I don’t have an MFA, nor am I moving to get one. I may even be against getting an MFA, at least for me. But that might be a racket. I confess the lack of an MFA makes me feel somehow unworthy of opportunities. But that is not what I am committed to. I am committed to opportunities and possibilities for everyone. I…

  • Bridge

    Joshua Gray
    19 Sep 2011 | 3:32 pm
    I’ve been thinking a lot about poetry a bit more so than usual, perhaps due to my gig as the DC Poetry Examiner for Examiner.com. Since starting at Examiner.com, I’ve noticed more and more where poetry sits in the world of art forms. The thing about poetry is it isn’t just an art form. Poetry has a function. It serves a purpose. You might say all art forms serve a purpose, and you would be correct. I’m not saying poetry has some sort of arrogant egoism inherent to it that other art forms don’t have. I am saying I am more aware of the powers behind my own art…
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    A window Within Myself

  • Unbeaten

    19 Jan 2012 | 2:40 pm
    Women care Birthing Suite at Fortis Hospitals, a photo by fortisHosp on Flickr.Had enough crying Had enough complainingGot to stand up Got to be a woman Unbeaten by tragedy Won’t die with painMeant to bear the aches Conceiving a child In midst of pain An ultimate joyOn arrival of ones kin So nothing can beat a woman As she can stir her pain So here I am a woman Unbeaten by tragedy Copyright 2012 Nasra Al Adawi

  • Ziyana

    8 Dec 2011 | 12:13 pm
    As YouAre My Existencefor Life Happinessthat Survives MyZiyana A Journey of HealingCopyright2011, Nasra Al Adawi 

  • Keep Smiling

    3 Nov 2011 | 3:09 pm
    Its not falling that keeps us courageous  It is smiling that behold usIts not tears that speaks for our sadnessIt is smiling beyond our pain and tearsThen comes the voice of anger on a double rages  It is smiling that hold us against our weaknessThoughts of revenge submitsWithin the spells of forgivenessYet the heart does not  forget the trailsIt can not help it but being cautious  But bravely smiling to uplift us  Parading true colours Life is over-daring; one has to stand beating falls We keep smiling…

  • I'm Crossing

    28 Oct 2011 | 11:57 pm
    Its Time for Me to Cross My Set Path On My Own These Feets are Made to Cross Many Journeys  copyright 2011 Nasra Al Adawi 

  • Enough of Fake Tears

    19 Oct 2011 | 10:22 am
    Golden tears, a photo by andrea francesco on Flickr.Hush….Don’t spill crocodile tearsI’m no longer movedI’m no longer torn apartThis woman is done with your liesYou are dead and gone in my heartSo where are you positionedA history with lessons vigorously learnedTrig all your threatsNothing pierces this heartOnce again, hear it from meI have fallen deaf to your liesNow turn around: Head back to where you cameYou are dead and gone in my heartYour chapter forever closedCopyright 2011 Nasra Al Adawi(this beautful photos is from flickr.cm by Andrea Francesco)
 
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    Sad Poems

  • Dominoes Stumbling

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:46 pm
    Touch is a treason. In a war of the absurd. Her eyes like wounded soldiers. Her smile like grenades. We wear each other in sparse threads of skin. Toiling to undo the knots that keep us together. her lips are summer. her face is winter. the seasons change us. but on them we have little effect. i draw my boxes. the stale geometry of if. stumbles. caught in life's moist cement. he listens to her breathe. inspired by the prescient cadence of her sleeplessness. ledges like gods. loud and arrogant. lovers like zippers. coming undone. teeth biting everywhere. there is an opening. her monsters are…

  • Post Football Projects

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:13 pm
    Guest post of the week by Val FloresThe Superbowl is less than two weeks away and the teams are decided. I could have told you back in September the Patriots would be in the big game but I wouldn’t have picked the Giants to go all the way. Although my wife is happy to have me available once again on Sundays, it’s hard to believe another season of NFL Sunday Ticket has already come and gone! Of course we have one more Sunday to go when we watch the Superbowl but after that it’s time to tackle the honey do list my wife has been making over the past few months. I’m sure there are quite a…

  • Sad Monster

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:44 pm
    treble flames. point their dominoes. away from the sun. the pitch of gravity reveals. the parasite of confession. eager needles. punch the wind. their poison the only reason to keep climbing. yellow like truth. sticky and sour with blame. blue like love. soft and foul. the porch door trembles. the glass in the windows shudders. laugh. let me fall. let me stumble and be of their ridicule. I am content to be laughed at by idiots and loved by madmen. her stories tell her. child climbing ladders just shy of heaven. unaware that she's always been high enough. skin like cataracts. adds to the blur.

  • Broken Leashes

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:11 am
    prepare the wolf. soft swords. like fading memory. quiet floods. in the ripe of her arms. the beautiful girl. the ugly truth. tell the story. in pink cheeks. and doubting arms. the whisper of right against the roar of wrong. the shrug of the apple. more thread than needle. as it mends those holes. let the monster inside. play the martyr. to wasted saviors. pressing the absolute. soft buttons. slender threads. work their way through the doll. in stiff smiles and frozen tears. loud liars. befriend the battle. soft soldiers adjust the war. until everything is sober. bad dogs. chewing on the…

  • Theoretcial Communists

    21 Jan 2012 | 11:05 pm
    numbers. thumbs. chimps. the eye unfolding like an uncertain bridge. steps too close. edges scraping. the light coughed. the dark chose. each one dying of the same disease. in different poses. she drew him. smudges and pencil scars. paper swords. left in empty stones. to draw upon. in nervous floods of ink. the grin of distant stars. hungry ghosts. to color in blank faces. and try on fallowed skins. dead leaves. a mosaic of faces. reap. the hollow. the pantomime continues. a whisper of madness. small comfort against the roar of mediocrity. blunt gods. without their guns. waste their…
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    anachronizms

  • mdlxxi

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:43 am
    On this page I see how you grewupand am surprised.  Every day now Igo back to this page.  Sometimes wegrow up and sometimes our mouthswrinkle and smudge.  I don’t reallyget anything from it.  Sometimeswe fly into the hands of anotherpair of pants.  These are good times.Most all of them.  Sometimes welash out like children.  It’s importantlike shampoo.  Sometimes we lash outat our children.  Our suppressed hopeis they remember this.  And not just inflashbacks.  Sometimes we spreadfairy dust in neverland.  We goback to the kids we…

  • mdlxx

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:55 pm
    You can’t eradicate words meaning violence.In fact, that would be defeat.  Right? Well,I should be heartened. Take the pink fromheart.  Try putting aheart into that thingpumping inside your gut. There areissues.  It fitsnicely into a CD sleeve,however.  Or red.  Or the after-effects ofFriday that he wants me to tackle.  Am Ipathetic?  This isnice.  I should be.  Yes-terday was nice.  Iwant to go home andgo to bed.  And beheartened withoutbeing a heartattack.

  • mdlxix

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:58 am
    Facebook finally paysoff!                     —Cedar SigoCan you send me IMG_3851? I want to include itin this poem.  I willpay and you will find meardently negotiable.I notice that your friends are starting to mix withmy friends.  Thisbrings judgmental to a whole notherlevel.  I notice thisbefore call Larry and laundry.Do you think that’s really his name?  My friend Chin(same age) just legally changed his name to Matt.  In Japan.

  • mdlxviii

    24 Jan 2012 | 2:30 pm
    The very fallen streetof nuts?                              —Kenneth Koch

  • mdlxvii

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:27 pm
    My young wood that Ioverwinter                             —Hugo Claus
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    As/Is

  • "There is Nothing Outside the Net": Internet Affirmations in the Twenty-First Century

    P.F.S. Post
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm
    Western society is sick for a sense of affirmation of any kind in 2012. Conditions of life, in America in particular, constitute a formidable denial— of rights, of substance, and (most importantly) of a sense of duration. Many of us cannot imagine our lives extending into an indefinite future— too much around us has come unhinged. What the Internet affirms is, to be simple, that a dynamic,

  • Apparition Poems: #s 671, 623, 663 (Adam Fieled)

    P.F.S. Post
    19 Jan 2012 | 4:58 am
    #671Even as a little girl, she got beat down. There was something wrong with her brains.She couldn't relate to people. Cheltenhamguys noticed how adorably doll-like she was(lookin real good, like Natalie Wood), but shewouldn't date anyone. She died a mysterioussocial drowning death. She got older andbecame a Tennessee Williams heroine-as-Jewess.I'm telling you this because I nailed her, dude.I

  • prologue

    Guido Monte
    17 Jan 2012 | 2:04 am
    Guido Monte/Vittorio Cozzoprologue of "Nothing recalled and the misterious life of God" (2000)Painting of a crowd praying before the sun,a painting hidden inside a little medalwhich safeguards the whiteness of centuriesin Milan's oldest square -the square of a solitary day of sunlight,fragment of other lights.Dream of a crowd, of nothing, of vanityle rêve devient petit et lui aussi un autre néant

  • Apparition Poem #624 (Adam Fieled)

    P.F.S. Post
    16 Jan 2012 | 6:15 am
    What would happen, the elderly matron thinks, if I fall in love with a thirteen-year-old kid? I only saw him once, picking up my niece from Cedarbrook. They were flirting, and he looked very dashing- a gorgeous Goy. I can't jerk off to anyone else. Because (obviously) at fifty-five you can't have sex anymore. She picks up and dandles her vibrator. She got this about thirteen years ago, too.

  • to a new child

    Guido Monte
    6 Jan 2012 | 7:52 am
    before: ashabdham,silencein the mismo soplo de vida,of primeval breath…and going now,after the hiding,to the lifeins leben
 
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    Chicano Poet

  • 27 Jan 2012 | 11:06 am

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:06 am
    History LessonThe Mexican eaglesleeps upon a limb.Half a womancries from the arroyo.A whole bitter race of lemons on the bank.A sacred virgincreated just for the occasion.The snake is beggingon its knees.Juan was blindsays a detractor.But the nationwas born anyway.A playgroundwhich can not mature.The virgin hugs youwith her cactus arms.Child, you must knowwhat you are made of.

  • 25 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm
    Cantina BluesThe cantina was rocking with smokesmoke which had been lived innight after nightEl Perro sat at his usual tablehis back against the walla good view of the dirty doorhe knew which cabrónhad a gunor a knifeor a gun and a knifehe knew which cabrónwas likely to start a fightafter six or seven beershe knew which saloon girlto stay away fromEl Perro hated going homebut he went home anywaybipolar son of la chingadasometimes he was Mexicansometimes he wasn’t

  • 22 Jan 2012 | 9:38 pm

    22 Jan 2012 | 9:38 pm
    Conjunto BluesThe accordion playerhas always been an anti-heroin the smoky cantinaswhere immorality is not only toleratedbut a way of lifewayward heart beats deepen in a holeand always the girl who bringslipstick to a knifefightsaturday nights and sunday morningcome upon her thighsthe unfaithful husbandwho slinks home at dawnand barks at his wifebecause it’s a dog’s worldthe conjunto guyscounting pennies sunday afternoonmusic still rattling aroundin their sweaty underwearthey are addicted to bitternessand its highs

  • 21 Jan 2012 | 12:20 am

    21 Jan 2012 | 12:20 am
    Heavenly HaikuThey paved paradiseand put up a statueof Joni Mitchell

  • 19 Jan 2012 | 12:53 am

    19 Jan 2012 | 12:53 am
    Arizona: The New OrderThe laws they passto suppressthe laws they passto enslavethe righteous oneswho stand behind themwho can’t readthe Constitutionit is not theywho created the nationit is not their futurewe are seeingit is their impotencethey advertisetheir self-loathingbrought to the surfaceit is their sole desireto impose upon usa world where nothing growsbut hate
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    the dust congress

  • 24 Jan 2012 | 1:24 am

    24 Jan 2012 | 1:24 am
    we will have a comic and we'll laugh all daywe will have a bottle and we'll drink all daywe will have a checkbook and we'll buy all daywe will have a combo and we'll dance all daywe will have exhaustion and we'll sleep all dayNora Sturges, Greenhouse, 2011Rest. -- by Richard JonesIt's so late I could cut my lightsand drive the next fifty milesof empty interstateby starlight,flying along in a

  • 17 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm

    17 Jan 2012 | 1:05 pm
    Float like a butterfly, sting like a beeFloat like a butterfly, sting like a beeYou know you got me dancingI'm the champion of the ringHarry Benson, Miami, 1964Happy Birthday to The Greatest of All Time.

  • 13 Jan 2012 | 5:57 pm

    13 Jan 2012 | 5:57 pm
    in the middle of the bottleis a little of the way you talkLaurence Pignarre Wyllie, TransmissionThe Manger of Incidentals-- by Jack GilbertWe are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe.By meaningless bulk, vastness without size,power without consequence. The stubborn iterationthat is present without being felt.Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenonand its physics. An endless,

  • 11 Jan 2012 | 7:18 am

    11 Jan 2012 | 7:18 am
    where will you spend eternitySaul Leiter, Snow, 1960All Kinds of Caresses -- John AsberyThe code-name losses and compensations Float in and around us through the window. It helps to know what direction the body comes from. It isn't absolutely clear. In words Bitter as a field of mustard we Copy certain parts, then decline them. These are not only gestures: they imply Complex relations with one

  • 9 Jan 2012 | 1:41 am

    9 Jan 2012 | 1:41 am
    Hiding in a parking lot andWatching all the people fall to piecesDarren Almond, Today, 2000* A long conversation with Ed Sanders, whose memoir, Fug You, was recently published. Excerpt:Ed: It was a very intense set of years. Of course, you get into your 70s, I’m 72, and you realize that you don’t have the energy to stay up three straight nights, party, publish, drink, smoke pot, forget about
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    The Endless Saga

  • torn

    26 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    putting a life back togetheris like putting together the piecesof a photograph torn in twoyou line the pieces upso that they make sense againand the crack that once toreyou in two becomes nota separation, but a life lesson.

  • 24 Dec 2011 | 4:34 am

    24 Dec 2011 | 4:34 am
    It’s just before ChristmasI search for the right facenot this one, no, not that...I’ve lost it, or ratherI’ve misplace itjust upon awakeningthis morningtorn away from a dreamhaunted by memoriesof another world,another lifesuppresssuppresssuppressput onyour braveface ofhappinessit’s Christmasand the childrenwill be homesoon.

  • August 3, 2011

    3 Aug 2011 | 3:44 am
    lonelinessno matter how loudthe television is onalone is still aloneno matter how manytimes the refrigeratoris opened and scanned . . . again and againfor something, but what?nothing in there can satisfythis need to fill this emptinessno matter how many timessomething beautiful is createdsomething beautiful, too, is taken away.

  • T. S. Eliot

    2 Jun 2011 | 11:53 pm
    "Where is the life we have lost in living?"

  • Haiku

    20 Apr 2011 | 2:32 pm
    rows of white crosseswe leave our tearsupon the ground(C) 2010 James Eric Watkins
 
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    rooted

  • the road

    gautami tripathy
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:19 am
    it hurts to traverse that road in my mind's eye it is a straight path but your machinations stop me I find pieces of glass embedded under my shoes left all alone in that labyrinth I need a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • escape

    gautami tripathy
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:34 am
    under that tree I kept it hidden the sheen of your sweat which had flowed for me in desire. who dug it out, along with my sensuality which I had  packed inside a bubble? the air evokes you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • encircle

    gautami tripathy
    22 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am
    a story I scatter in the wind I know it will scald shards will pierce into the ashen urges but I curb my instinct to run ignore the whispering sisters who have the knack to create trouble when... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • chequered windows

    gautami tripathy
    9 Jan 2012 | 7:39 am
    thousands of aeon have passedI grope the airthatched huts are just beyond that gateforgotten splotchy hearth reminds me ofmy fluttering heart in a rain laden daya flash of iridescent stones blinds... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • frustrating frustum

    gautami tripathy
    5 Jan 2012 | 8:18 pm
    I see the atmosphere spiral downthe cut shell makes a naughty sound wonderful tactic to distract methat rotation is not the zenitheven though I know its importance what lay on that deserted ground?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    something katy

  • if peter falls in love with her

    22 Jan 2012 | 2:55 pm
    peter felt himself fall in love and it hurt more than the 16 stitches in his side

  • snogging in the library

    22 Jan 2012 | 2:55 pm
    it is exactly that and what it might sound like too two people covering their faces with books and each others'

  • ‎"But Zeffirino was hardly one to renounce a whole family of octopus, now discovered."

    11 Jan 2012 | 2:34 pm
    -a poem based on a line from a story by italo calvino- for mike under the skin  of every high school drama teacher is a creature who knows he is good at everything, which everyone knows he is not he has a talent for tactless attempts at projects better left untouched but he cannot ignore the ghost of the old woman in the rafters or the soul of his past lives circling around him like a whole

  • doll house architect

    8 Jan 2012 | 12:11 pm
    by Ivan Slavinskiiy he had been making doll houses pristine and white with lace and rose-covered wall paper around every corner and every detail a little girl's delight for fifty-four years before an epiphany struck him like a blast of lightening bright and dangerous a glass house.  it would be his most dramatic, beautiful and prized work to date something to give those auctioneers a

  • blue paint

    4 Jan 2012 | 12:07 pm
    i put my hand on the wall where the paint had bubbled and rippled and torn under the heat of water dripping from the bathtub upstairs and there i felt nothing but empty space between me the paint, and the wall.
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    Watermark

  • Squirrel Appreciation Day!

    blogdiva@gmail.com (Sharon Brogan)
    21 Jan 2012 | 2:38 pm
           This squirrel is waiting for me to appreciate her. With food.  

  • the piano tuner

    blogdiva@gmail.com (Sharon Brogan)
    19 Jan 2012 | 11:27 am
    the piano tuner came todayhe revived the dead keyssweetened the sour note if only hecould tune me
 
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    Silliman's Blog

  • 27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Rae Armantrout being interviewed for PBS Newshour

  • 26 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    Anselm Berrigan & David Trinidad read at The Poetry Project

  • 25 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
    You will find a permanent link to the latest calendar in the sidebar to your left January 2012 January 26 in NYC Tony Towle & Jennifer Moxley January 26 in Venice, CA Ellen Maybe’s Poetry Rodeo January 26 & 27 in Chicago Ben Lerner January 26 – 29 in Cartagena, Columbia Hay Festival Columbia January 27 in Manchester, UK Psappha Contemporary Music Ensemble perform Steve Reich January 27

  • 24 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
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    23 Jan 2012 | 11:01 pm
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  • Can’t stop now! By John Yamrus

    24 Jan 2012 | 5:11 am
    John Yamrus has been featured previously here at Poet Hound and his latest collection of poems, can’t stop now!, published by Epic Rites Press is an excellent collection. From every-day humor to every-day tragedy it is all here. I flagged so many poems to share that it will be difficult to choose just a small sample to entice readers into purchasing a copy for themselves. There are poems that made me laugh out loud, poems that made me say out loud “Isn’t that right?” In any case, John Yamrus’ writing is straightforward and to the point and I am happy to share just a few poems…

  • Death Becomes Her

    22 Jan 2012 | 8:53 am
    Well, folks, my laptop has finally given up the ghost. At nearly ten years old it decided to stop accessing my Word Files and the internet on exactly the same day that my husband's power cord to his laptop fell apart. We weren't able to resolve either issue until yesterday. At the moment, my prized posts from last week are being pried free of my old laptop and onto an external hard drive compliments of the Geek Squad team at Best Buy. My husband has replaced his power cord and we now share his computer.What does this mean for everyone? It means that posts will be rather sporadic for the next…

  • Exquisite Corpse Site

    16 Jan 2012 | 6:12 pm
    This site is an on-line journal worth exploring for articles, poetry, art, and so on. I urge you to check them out at:http://corpse.org/index.phpThanks for dropping in, please stop in tomorrow for another featured poet…

  • The Perfectly Imperfect Home How to Decorate & Live Well by Deborah Needleman illustrated by Virginia Johnson

    13 Jan 2012 | 5:12 am
    For those of you who don’t know, I am obsesses with home decorating books even though I really don’t have the money to do much more than rearrange what I already have and throw in some inexpensive shelves and side tables. I lamented the day that Domino, the decorating-within-reach magazine, shut down, as I looked forward to Deborah Needleman and her crew’s expertise. In this book, The Perfectly Imperfect Home, Needleman breaks down how to turn your home into its best version of itself room by room, nook by nook. The illustrations by Virginia Johnson are beautiful, charming, and inspired…

  • Issue #181 Lilliput Review

    10 Jan 2012 | 5:07 am
    In this issue editor Don Wentworth gathers up rainy days, droning insects, and lonely souls into a beautiful and cathartic collection to be enjoyed on a day when you just aren’t “feeling up to it.” Below I am happy to share a short sample:static in my headcrickets rub hind legs in Buddha rhythmBy: A. D. Winans of San Franciso, CAThis poem reminds me of those dog days of summer where you drown out your thoughts and clear your mind while sitting on an old blanket in the grass and listen to the crickets, I miss those days.cook, i.e.where your thoughts meet your brainstemwhere your…
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  • Writers' Routines

    9 Jan 2012 | 2:21 pm
    http://writersroutines.tumblr.com/post/15051771867/k-silem-mohammad

  • Twenty Recommended Poetry Titles from 2011

    19 Dec 2011 | 1:05 pm
    Twenty books of poetry from 2011 that belong on your shelf.  (This was originally two posts of ten titles each, but I've consolidated them into one list.)Chris Alexander, Panda (Truck Books)It's like conceptual poetry, only fun.  From the very conceptualistically-oriented Truck Books, which also released Kristen Gallagher's We Are Here (also recommended) this year.Bruce Andrews, You Can't Have Everything ... Where Would You Put It! (Veer Books)Another hopped-up avalanche of hard-Language hooks from the King of Pop!Rae Armantrout, Money Shot (Wesleyan UP)Win the Pulitzer Prize, then…

  • West Wind Review 2011 Fall Sale!

    19 Nov 2011 | 1:23 pm
    FALL SALE!!Go to West Wind Review for BIG SAVINGS on the past two years' issues!

  • 2 Readings & a Parade

    22 Oct 2011 | 5:50 pm
    I'll be giving two readings in New York state next week:First, UB Poetics is sponsoring a reading by me at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo on Friday, Oct. 28 at 8pm;Then, the Stony Brook University Poetry Center is hosting me at 2pm on Monday, Oct. 31.Also, I'll be in the Halloween Poets' Parade in the West Village sponsored by Bloof Books on Sunday, Oct. 30. It starts at 6pm at the Four-Faced Liar, 165 West 4th St. (more here).

  • Sonnagram in The Nation

    21 Aug 2011 | 2:35 pm
    My Sonnagram of Shakespeare's Sonnet 53 ("What is your substance, whereof are you made") appears in the August 15-22 issue of The Nation. (They failed to identify it as a Sonnagram, however, so for readers who don't know about the procedure, it just appears to be a random piece of doggerel.)
 
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    The Best American Poetry

  • Fly Me to the Moon!

    The Best American Poetry
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:32 am
    Take a look at what Tom Devaney has artfully done with "OnandOnScreen," which is devoted to poets' pairing their work with a video of their choice. The current issue includes Catherine Wagner and Wayne Koestenbaum and Matt Hart and Leonard...

  • Will the Real Poet Please Stand Up?

    Caroline
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:35 pm
    Will the Real Poet Please Stand Up? [by Caroline Malone] My first impression of a poet came from listening to my mother and her friends talk about their attempts at being hipsters in high school. Apparently, my mother was not...

  • "I've Told Every Little Star" (music Jerome Kern, lyrics Oscar Hammerstein)

    The Best American Poetry
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am

  • Jerry Kern, The song is you (who share this birthday with Mozart)

    The Best American Poetry
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:58 am
    You and Mozart share this day. Happy birthday, Jerry (and you too, Wolfgang). I know you liked Frankie's version of this song cicra 1942. . . Just listent to that last falsetto note.

  • On the consolations of (very) old age

    The Best American Poetry
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:35 pm
    From "Out the Window" by Donald Hall in the New Yorker, January 23, 2012: <<< [My mother] died a month short of ninety-one. Her brain was still good. A week before she died, she read "My Antonia" for the tenth...
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  • The Week That This Affected You

    Harriet Staff
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:09 am
    Here’s everything from this week’s poetry news that you really need to know, in handy, clip ‘n’ save, actionable listicle format. 1. Christopher Walken does a mean cover of The Raven. Because Walken is the OG of internet meme generators, and his kiddie-scaring shtick makes almost anything seem badass. Also, “The Raven” is a cinch to memorize in advance of any forthcoming nightmares wherein you find yourself back in Ms. Jordan’s eighth-grade English class. 2. Vladimir Putin has a reading list. Because Vlad Poot is precisely the Bond villain that might bring America together…

  • Give a Listen: Newest PoemTalk Features P. Inman !

    Harriet Staff
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:17 pm
    A bit biased (an admittal of co-production over here), but we’d really like to point you to the newest PoemTalk at Jacket2; episode number 49 is focused on Peter Inman and features Sarah Dowling, Danny Snelson, and Michael Golston discussing two short poems from Inman’s book at.least. (Krupskaya, 1999). “The poems are ‘lac[e]y.’ — dedicated to Tom Raworth — and ‘reception. theory.’ — which is ‘for Diane Ward.’” Both poems are handily accessible (we can’t help it!). As well, “The text of the poems is available as a…

  • Putin’s Canon

    Harriet Staff
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Vladimir Putin is compiling a 100-Book canon that all students must read, according to The Guardian. From the article: Putin, who is running for a third term as president in March, says that Russia has “always been described as a ‘reading nation’”, and proposes taking a survey of the country’s “most influential cultural figures” and compiling “a 100-book canon that every Russian school leaver will be required to read – that is, to read at home rather than study in class or memorise. And then they would be asked to write an essay on one of them…

  • Tess Gallagher Sues Skyhorse Publishing

    Harriet Staff
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Per this Publishers Weekly update, Tess Gallagher, the wife of late author Raymond Carver, filed a copyright suit last Friday against Skyhorse Publishing over the book Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver. The suit claims the book has unauthorized excerpts and photos. Last year, Skyhorse bought Arcade, which originally published Carver Country in 1994. “We purchased the assets of five companies in the past 18 months and are negotiating for two others,” said Tony Lyons, publisher at Skyhorse. “We are learning that sometimes the rights situations on older titles turn out to…

  • The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin

    Harriet Staff
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    First there was The Selected, then The Collected, and now The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin, a soon-to-be-released compilation of all the poems— published and previously unpublished— that the poet ever wrote. 768 pages, folks. The book, edited by the “Larkinesquely named” Archie Burnett (as a recent Guardian review points out), will be available in March and already it’s getting some attention. There’s that Guardian review, for instance, which calls Burnett’s view “both panoptic and microscopic,” continuing: The critical apparatus he erects…
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  • Photo Friday: “Trees and Shadows”

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:33 am
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  • “Autobiography of a Face” by Michael Blumenthal

    24 Jan 2012 | 12:16 am
    The VPR Poem of the Week is Michael Blumenthal’s “Autobiography of a Face,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2010 issue (Volume XI, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.Michael Blumenthals seventh collection of poems, And, was published by BOA Editions in 2009. He is also the author of a memoir, All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002). His novel, Weinstock Among The Dying, won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction, and his collection of essays from Central Europe, When History Enters the House, was published in 1998.Tuesday of each…

  • Photo Friday: “Stopping by Woods”

    20 Jan 2012 | 12:17 am
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  • “War Work” by Pam Bernard

    17 Jan 2012 | 12:12 am
    The VPR Poem of the Week is Pam Bernard’s “War Work,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue (Volume X, Number 2) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.Pam Bernards three collections of poetry include My Own Hundred Doors (Bright Hill Press), Across the Dark (Main Street Rag Press), and Blood Garden: an elegy for Raymond (Turning Point Books). She also has had poems published in various literary journals, such as Prairie Schooner, Spoon River Review, and TriQuarterly. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing, two Massachusetts Cultural Council…

  • Photo Friday: “Gazebo Path”

    13 Jan 2012 | 12:04 am
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  • Wooden Fruits

    dc
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:32 pm
    The improvised songs, Boiled kettles, Lazy Sundays in bed With the biscuit sweats And papers, That painting By the wardrobe Of Adam and Eve Pre-apple, The kind of love That closed doors And found islands, It was all there Lined up And ready To be shot at. They were sold On make believe. Young love Is wasted on the old.

  • The Digital Zeus Escape

    dc
    14 Jan 2012 | 3:25 pm
    We synchronise Eye crazes On-line, Off-line, Wrestling the genius And issuing declarations of love As lonely dreamers design Popular worlds, Clouds Familiar looking And lost, Undisturbed oceans, They distribute sunglasses With their parallels And smile Like they’re Creating time. There’s supermarket bulk, Well purchased And instant, Celeb declarations, New and widely prescribed, A god-like nutrition In almost existence. We gather with great attention, Intentions kind but belated, We want to swap this planet For something aggregated.

  • Together Forever

    dc
    4 Jan 2012 | 5:45 pm
    They felt love And it’s constant, It was a bit like velvet But electric And endless, Transitional blankets, The white noise Of happiness, The tremors Of special; Even when they curdled Like milk in the sun, Pulled hair Till it hurt And skirted with sanity, They knew they would Wrinkle and tinkle Forever, Together As one, Fallen feathers And sun.

  • 2011

    dc
    31 Dec 2011 | 8:13 am
    Dark clouds hung low, Handles fell off Fatigued briefcases And brogues Were torn from their soles. The despot bogeymen Who once saw their faces In cafes and palaces, Became the dried blood graffiti On huge fallen walls. We held onto anger Like loose change And past wounds, Taking in excuses With saline Through tubes. Worry not. In a pub somewhere now There’s a genius lurking With a plan To save all of our souls.

  • Never Stare A Ghost In The Eyes

    dc
    30 Dec 2011 | 7:43 pm
    The mice scuttled, Dry skin flaked And the moon Looked back at you. Never stare A ghost in the eyes, The endless hollows And the What will I do next? Come back to haunt, Till your walking round Old estates Talking about your day And feeling memories Like a fever, The insane want That the streets ignore. Too soon it’s you All white With a bruise For a smile And a washed out Solution. Never stare A ghost in the eyes.
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  • Public Poetry Winter Series Reading

    4 Jan 2012 | 9:03 am
    Public Poetry will be ringing in 2012 with a new Winter Series at Park Place Regional Library on Saturday, January 7 at 2:00 PM. I will be one of the featured poets reading at this event. According to the press release:"In addition to the featured poets - Outspoken Bean, Radames Ortiz, Loueva Smith and Randall Watson - we're delighted to have Ad Deum Dance Company (dance video) as our special guest at the start, as well as a talented student poet joining us."The event will take place at:Saturday, January 7, 2012Park Place Regional Library, 8145 Park Place, Houston, Texas 77017Time: 2:00 –…

  • Poem for the Holiday Blog Tour 2011

    3 Dec 2011 | 12:22 pm
    I know I'm suppose to share a poem about the holidays for this Holiday Blog Tour 2011 but I have never been good at writing poetry centered around a theme. But one thing the holidays are about besides presents is family. One of the most important members of my family was my grandmother. My grandmother was the matriarch and she loomed over us like a humid summer in Houston. She was big part in our lives, in my life. Don't get me wrong, she had her faults, plenty of them but she had her good ones too. For example, she showed me how to be man. On Sundays, she would sit in her rocking chair with…

  • Holiday Blog Tour 2011 Begins

    2 Dec 2011 | 10:52 am
    I'm very excited to announce that the Holiday Blog Tour 2011 with 23 writers ranging from established to emerging writers has begun. You can read some up-and-coming, some bestselling and some soon-to-be best selling authors. And they'll get you in the holiday spirit!We have something for everyone, from poets to fiction writers and some memoir folks are coming to party too.And if you're a really good reader, some will have a present for you. And if you're a super good reader, and read all the stories, there's a present for you, too. But you have to wait until the end.First one up is Julia…

  • Dagoberto Gilb Book Signing Tonight in Houston

    17 Nov 2011 | 12:41 pm
    Author Dagoberto Gilb will have a book signing for his new book "BEFORE THE END, AFTER THE BEGINNING" in Houston at Barnes & Nobles, Thursday, November 17, 2011. The event is hosted by Nuestra Palabra founder Tony Diaz, publisher of AztecMuse Magazine and features performances by Nuestra Palabra Discoveries and poets - Radames Ortiz, Lupe Mendez and Jasmine Mendez.Pulitzer-prize winning Richard Ford says the stories in BEFORE THE END, AFTER THE BEGINNING, are “quirky, confronting, intense, often darkly funny stories” which nevertheless reveal a “sense of profound human longing and a…

  • Interview on the Front Row Radio Show @ Noon Today

    29 Jun 2011 | 11:20 am
    Today at noon on The Front Row radio show, poet Loueva Smith and me will be featured guests. We will read some poetry and talk about our upcoming reading this Saturday at the Kendall Branch of the Houston Public Library for the Public Poetry reading series. To listen tune in to 91.7 KUHA FM or listen on the website.Here is a description of the show. "Wednesday, we focus on the International Festival-Institute at Round Top. We hear a concert performance by last year’s Texas Festival Orchestra, and speak with conductor JoAnn Falletta who talks about the concert she’ll direct this Saturday…
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  • Numerology of Grief (The Sixth Year)

    Robert Peake
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:06 am
    “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus Six is my favourite number. It is the number of years between my younger sister and me. It looks like the lovechild of zero and “C”. The only single digit that is divisible by two as well as three, it seems to encompass both even and odd with a swirling, round-bottomed equanimity. This tadpole, half of a yin-yang symbol, is also the number for idealists. Six years ago today, I counted myself among them when our son was born. I was determined to be the ideal father to an…

  • “Same-Day Return” (Film-Poem)

    Robert Peake
    21 Jan 2012 | 1:43 pm
    This evening, we collaborated on another film-poem. We live near the end of the Northern Line, and our evenings are pleasantly haunted by the sound of the train. Same-Day Return What could I tell to the long twilight? What would it ask of me? The dusk is a keeper of secrets placid as a frozen lake. My muscles are rinsed with indigo, my bones glow with a weak, phosphorescent light. The darkness can’t fully arrive. Nothing will come of nothing, warned the king. So I will speak again: the moon pours down her tenderness the city glows back in praise. The skyline stretches its fingers,…

  • Long Poem Magazine Launch Reading

    Robert Peake
    19 Jan 2012 | 7:10 am
    Readers will know I don’t generally consider myself a long poem poet. At the T.S. Eliot Shortlist Reading last weekend, Sean O’Brien remarked that one of the most dreaded phrases in a poetry reading is (said darkly), “and now for something longer.” Recalling this, I descended the stairs of the brutalist Barbican Theater into the music library, recalling the Vogon dungeon from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in which the protagonist is forced to listen to the “third worst poetry in the universe” as torture. Fortunately, owing to great variety,…

  • “Upon Arrival” (A Film-Poem)

    Robert Peake
    7 Jan 2012 | 8:13 am
    From the window of my office in Holborn, I watch the changing light of the London skyline with fascination. Yesterday, with the help of an iPhone app, I propped my phone by the window for several hours and set it to take pictures six times per minute. I composited these images into video at 24 frames per second using Quicktime, then looped the clip back-and-forth, adjusted the colour, and added a panning and zooming effect using iMovie. Valerie and I collaborated this morning on some accompanying words and music, combining it all together into another film-poem. Upon Arrival Longing dabbles…

  • “Piece Work” (A Film-Poem)

    Robert Peake
    2 Jan 2012 | 1:43 pm
    This evening, Valerie and I collaborated on our first film-poem. She wrote an excellent summary of the process on her own website. Here is the video and the poem: Piece Work Winter, and the loom of the sky has been picked to wire. Light etches its memories through the long strands of twilight. We inhabit the shell of the world, and carry it gently. It carries us too, the echoing stairwell, the empty glass aflame. Look what I have brought– sand from a bullet-pocked beach, ribbon from a dead girl’s hair. It reaches through shadow play, gesture, the conspiring laughter of birds…
 
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  • Andy Brown’s The Fool and the Physician

    Michelle
    22 Jan 2012 | 10:52 pm
         Andy Brown is Director of the Exeter University Writing Programme, and was previously an Arvon Centre Director at Totleigh Barton. His most recent book of poems is The Fool and the Physician (Salt Publishing, 2012). Other recent books are: Goose Music with John Burnside (Salt Publishing), The Storm Berm (tall-lighthouse), and Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt Publishing).           “Exploding with Carnivalesque and antic energy, The Fool and the Physician shows the formal range and wit of Andy Brown’s poetry, from traditional lyric forms such as pantoums,…

  • Andrea Ashworth’s Somewhere Else, or Even Here

    Michelle
    15 Jan 2012 | 11:26 pm
          Somewhere Else, or Even Here A. J. Ashworth ISBN 9781844718801 Salt Publishing (November 2011)     We love stories. We crave them. Whether it’s watching films, reading books, going to the theatre or listening to gossip – we need them. And we need to be surrounded by them. Writers, being curiously obsessive creatures, are hooked on them. So hooked that they want to make their own stories – for as much of the time as possible – and for the stories they make to have meaning, for themselves and others. I wanted to make stories from quite a young age. My first such memory was of…

  • Cassandra Parkin on New World Fairy Tales

    Michelle
    8 Jan 2012 | 10:53 pm
          New World Fairy Tales Cassandra Parkin ISBN 9781844718818 Salt Publishing (December 2011)       Like most writers, my childhood was soaked in fairy tales. Even before I could read properly I spent hours poring over the illustrations of my Ladybird editions of Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Rumplestiltskin and reciting the text from memory. Slightly older, I was fixated on my mother’s hardback edition of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham and very little expurgated.    I think it’s impossible to overestimate the debt we owe to these…

  • Meryl Pugh’s The Bridle

    Michelle
    4 Jan 2012 | 10:37 am
        Meryl Pugh was born in 1968 and grew up in Wales, New Zealand, East Anglia and the Forest of Dean, where her family settled. Short-listed for the New Writing Ventures Poetry Prize in 2005, she is a Hawthornden Fellow. Arrowhead Press published her first pamphlet, Relinquish, in 2007. Her second, entitled The Bridle, came out with Salt Publishing at the end of 2011. She is a PhD candidate at UEA and lives in Norwich and London, where she teaches poetry.           “The Bridle (Salt Publishing, 2011) is concerned with the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the human…

  • Happy New Year

    Michelle
    31 Dec 2011 | 12:58 am
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  • Aboriginal Anger on Australia Day

    Ayanna Nahmias
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:25 pm
    26 January 2012 – Today is Australia Day which commemorates the establishment of the first settlement at Port Jackson, now part of Sydney, in 1788. Originally, instituted for the exclusive enjoyment of the white settlers, the country has more recently tried to promote the holiday as an opportunity for Australians to come together to celebrate [...]

  • Nollywood | Bollywood

    Ayanna Nahmias
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:14 pm
    Lagos, Nigeria is one of the most populace cities in Africa. It is also the seat of the Nigerian film industry which began in 1992 and is known as Nollywood. It is the third largest film industry in the world after India‘s Bollywood and Hollywood in the U.S. Nollywood produces 2,500 films a year most [...]

  • Population Me

    Ayanna Nahmias
    21 Jan 2012 | 9:40 pm
    I first heard this song as I was driving home the day I lost my job. My position was abolished due to a ‘reduction in work force.’ I was comfortably numb as I packed the detritus of an eight year tenure into the boxes maintenance provided. I hastily bid adieu to the people with whom [...]

  • Yu Jie, Chinese Dissident | U.S. Asylum?

    Ayanna Nahmias
    16 Jan 2012 | 9:43 pm
    Yu Jie, age 38,  is a writer and Chinese dissident who was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Yu has been a strong proponent of freedom of speech and an active participant in China’s human rights movement. In 2006 as vice-president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center he and two other dissidents met with President George [...]

  • Inspiration for Compassionate Living

    Ayanna Nahmias
    15 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pm
    "There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man." Alan Paton. In an effort to bring balance to our reporting for every post that we write about bad behavior, we will post another story about the good that man possesses and the manifestation of this kindness. These inspirational posts will hopefully help us to own ourselves and our actions.
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  • 50+ Funny Marriage Quotes

    6 Jan 2012 | 1:02 am
    Here are some 50+ funniest marriage quotes that I have collected over the internet. Hope you would enjoy reading them as much as I did. "Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts" -Jeff Foxworthy "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." -Groucho Marx "The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once." -H.V. Prochnow "I have learned

  • My New Year's Resolutions

    29 Dec 2011 | 1:57 am
    The dawn of a new year is just round the corner. A new year, a new beginning. Rather befitting for me since I am getting married this year and thus will begin my endeavors into a new world. A new world with a new family, my family. And with this beginning comes a few resolutions. My New Year’s resolutions. Living a successful relationship is an art, living three successful relationships, the

  • Phishing Scam: Indian Income Tax Website Hacked

    6 Dec 2011 | 12:10 am
    Today a got a mail in my inbox saying that I got an Income Tax refund for the previous fiscal year. The email looked genuine since it came from ref-init@incometaxindia.gov.in. It contained a link which I needed to click to apply for the refund. Nice scam they have put up this time since on clicking the link I was taken to the website http://www.burlingtonbaycafe.com! Yes ladies and gentlemen,

  • It's Christmas Season

    2 Dec 2011 | 9:22 pm
    Do you still leave cookies and milk for Santa under the tree? That's what the Christmas spirit is all about isn't it? It about faith. Faith in God, faith in life, love, happiness, friendship, forgiveness. The time of the year when you let go of all your grudges. A season to decorate, not only the Christmas tree but your life. To be very honest with you, the Christmas season began from the

  • El Condor Pasa

    1 Dec 2011 | 12:10 am
    Today is the 1st of December, the beginning of the last month of the year. The month that proclaims the beginning of the end, the dawn of another year. The prelude to the beginning of new dreams, new responsibilities, new memories, faiths, friends, moments. A coup de grace that puts an end to some nightmares. An epilogue that inaugurates a new season, the season of love, of friendship, joy and
 
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  • THE STATIONERY BOY

    Walter William Safar
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    His little dark street Is at home in the silky cobweb; His little dark street Is only loud in the missionaries’ prayers, It elicits a gaze in very few people, It is but an uninvited guest to life. read more

  • THE CHESS GAME BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

    Walter William Safar
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am
    The chess game between life and death continues. Death calles upon silence to referee. Life hates silence, Life and death are facing each other, And silence is waiting, until life finally agrees to make the first move. read more

  • YOUR VOICE

    Walter William Safar
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:24 am
    Where did your voice disappear, man? In the demonic fires of passion? In golden castles of terrible greed? In the dark gorge of vanity? You voices wander the golden mirages, Your tired spirit wanders the golden dusts, read more

  • CRY OF THE BEATRAYED EARTH

    Walter William Safar
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:18 am
    From her womb there seems to come the echo of a thousand souls: “The earth is the bone of yours bones, the flesh of your flesh, and the shadow of your existence.” Down in the womb of the earth among the tea bundles and bones, read more

  • ALLEY OF JUSTICE

    Walter William Safar
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:16 am
    While the voices of greed sing in your ears, keep in mind that conscience lives for as long as light comes from the soul and the devil-this agitator of division and greed- was in our lives, In the middle of the circle, read more
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  • Blog Review 6 – Karen McCarthy Woolf Reviews Susan Wicks’s ‘House of Tongues’

    Karen McCarthy Woolf
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:55 am
    The title poem, ‘House of Tongues’, is after Paul Bowles’ 1947 short story A Distant Episode which recounts the capture and physical mutilation of a linguistics professor travelling through an unnamed country that is probably Morocco. The professor suffers an emblematic violence when his tongue is cut out by a band of Reguibat tribesmen. It’s a strange and compelling narrative that stays with you long after reading and House of Tongues has a similar effect: these are subtle yet invasive poems that creep into your psyche and occupy space. In the poem, Wicks skilfully…

  • Blog Review 5 – Dave Coates Reviews Noel Duffy’s ‘In the Library of Lost Objects’

    Dave Coates
    21 Dec 2011 | 3:22 am
    Noel Duffy’s choice of title for his debut collection is a good early omen. It neatly and precisely draws together the book’s deepest concerns. In the Library of Lost Objects is primarily concerned with preservation and restoration: the poems that play with this theme are uniformly more satisfying than the ones that don’t. To be more specific, when Duffy employs his knowledge and intimate familiarity with the natural and geological world, the poems flow with quiet assurance. This refreshing curiosity about the inner workings of the stellar bodies, magnetic fields, beehives and…

  • Launch of Magma 51

    Jacqueline Saphra
    28 Nov 2011 | 3:00 am
    What an evening it was. A cold night, a packed house, and the utterly complementary talents of Pascale Petit and Selima Hill as our guest readers. We were also fortunate to host a large number of contributors, many of whom had travelled some distance – from Sweden, Switzerland, Brussels and even California. The uniqueness of the Magma launches is that everyone whose work is in the issue is invited to read, and one of the joys of being a Magma editor is that you have the opportunity to meet many of the contributors and hear them read their work, poems you have sifted and re-sifted out of…

  • Finding a voice: influences of the past and present

    Angela Kirby
    18 Nov 2011 | 4:00 am
    The richest events occur in us long before the soul perceives them. And, when we begin to open our eyes to the visible, we have long since committed ourselves to the invisible. Gabriele D’Annunzio Poets are often advised to  ‘find a voice.’ This voice can only come,  I think, from the unique past and terroir of the poet.  In his essay, ‘Something to Write Home About’, Seamus Heaney describes growing up in Ireland between the Catholic and the Protestant communities, between a railway and a road, between the sound of a trotting horse and that of a shunting engine,…

  • Blog Review 4: Miriam Gamble Reviews Ailbhe Darcy’s ‘Imaginary Menagerie’

    Miriam Gamble
    17 Nov 2011 | 1:11 am
    In one of many gems in this extraordinary first collection, Ailbhe Darcy compares her emotional (and, implicitly, artistic) self to “a solitary magpie”: reflecting every colour and none, playing I-Spy with the gleams of a mind ‘Caw Poem’ contains everything we might justifiably look for in the début work of a poet of promise. Darcy’s ear is pitch-perfect, as displayed in her deft imitation of the magpie’s movements: I cocked my head, hopped a little, hopped a little closer, love become a scrum, a scuffle, a ruffle of feathers The opening is arresting, and cuts straight to the…
 
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  • Slouching Toward Starbucks

    January
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:17 pm
    Hello luscious! I've missed you.All day I have been waiting to get a few hours to myself at my friendly neighborhood Starbucks. I take a sip of my venti hot chocolate and my whole body says, "Thank you!"****What a week! With teaching, working my desk job, and Mass Poetry biz--oh, and being a mom--I'm wiped out. Just one more week of this madness and I'll be done with the desk job. Extremely bittersweet to leave the people I work with at Babson--my second family.****Decided to blog a little, then answer a few emails, and then start a poem or two…

  • Carolyn Forché Reads at Babson: February 8

    January
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:59 am
    The 2012 Charles D. and Marjorie J. Thompson Visiting Poet is Carolyn Forché.Who: Carolyn Forché, award-winning poet When: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Where: Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College, Wellesley, MassachusettsInfo: Admission is free; the public is welcome. Forché's books of poetry include: Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2004); The Angel of History (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of…

  • Confession Tuesday

    January
    24 Jan 2012 | 4:47 am
    Happy Tuesday, folks! Time for your confessions. Unburden yourself. Share a little piece of your life and we promise to do the same.I saw this tagline attached to a Crest toothpaste ad:Life opens up when you do.It’s the simplest little thing (and I’m not sure what it has to do with cavity protection) but it’s true. The past two years have been about change. If you had told me I would be teaching in a classroom and running a major festival, I wouldn’t have believed you. No way. Yet I have tried to stay open to all possibilities, trying to match my voice to my values. And here I…

  • A Quickie

    January
    23 Jan 2012 | 6:37 am
    Mass Poetry Website has a new look. Check it out the features to the left and the most popular on the right for stories you may have missed—lots of good content there. Also, check out the article on the Student Day of Teaching with Lisa Stott. ****Congrats to Yusef Komunyakaa and Aracelis Girmay, who received National Book Critics Circle nominations! ****I have a head cold. And, I’m a little disappointed that my writing is taking a back seat. It will be this way for another week or so. I am, however, taking advantage of freewriting in the classroom. More on all of this tomorrow for…

  • The Meaning of Life

    January
    20 Jan 2012 | 1:38 pm
    So ...Toi Derricotte is now a chancellor of the Academy of American poets, Natasha Trethewey has just been named poet laureate of Mississippi, and Sonia Sanchez was recently named poet laureate of Philadelphia. Love, love, love when good things happen to good people. Let's not forget Nikky Finney's National Book Award win.Good lord, there's something in the air ...****Thanks to Dan Nester for including me in his article, "I, Literary Tourist," at the Poetry Foundation's website. Go read it right now!****After my first full week of teaching at Salem State, working at Babson, and…
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  • Tempted Believable

    Kenney
    28 Jan 2012 | 4:25 am
    Tempted believable… ——————  Tempted believable Even when I am tempted it’s still believable that you are there, For if I trust I will be exempted From all my worries and care, Teach me this day that thy will be done And show me your wonderful way, Even though it may not always be fun Your mercy is mine each day ————– May The Lord keep you safe & bless you in all that you do…

  • Titillating Shimmer

    Kenney
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:07 pm
    Titillating shimmer… ——————- Titillating shimmer How titillating it is to see the luster of gold, Or a diamonds shimmer, But to watch God’s plan for me unfold, Let’s me know I’m a winner —————–

  • Input Design

    Kenney
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:15 am
    Input design…  ————- Input design Lord give me your input, Help me to know your mind, Let me walk with a sure foot, And live by your design, ———- copyright 2010 KenneyYoung.com

  • Liken Future

    Kenney
    25 Jan 2012 | 3:50 am
    Liken future… ————  Liken future To what will I liken the future, And the mysteries in which it holds, Like a child I need to be nurtured, And given grace for what unfolds, Thank you Lord for all that You do, In Your mercy You set me free, Teach me this day to be true, To the person You want me to be ————

  • Starbucks Frappuccino

    Kenney
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:18 am
    Starbucks frappuccino… ——————— Starbucks frappuccino Whether you’re going to Starbucks for a frappuccino, Or sending your money to Vegas or Reno, there’s 1 thing we all must understand, it’s not about the size of your wallet, Or which name if you want to call it, You must serve the Son of man ————-
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  • Rāgarāja’s Daughter

    Rob Kistner
    22 Jan 2012 | 2:19 pm
      Rāgarāja’s Daughter radiant vision silken skinned translucent alabaster blaze torrid as a teen’s temptation leaned low here before me yearning on plush cloud so sensuous sweet comely goddess forward bent graceful face aglow with craving you conjure ardor’s obsession a’bloom in beckoned fiery swoon forearms rest on pillow soft thoughts aflame in primal need lips burning smile a fetched seduction Rāgarāja’s daughter lush with Spring smoldering in golden light that folds upon you satin supple to bathe in warmth your arched desire divinely-pleasing luscious morsel served…

  • How Thin the Veil

    Rob Kistner
    11 Jan 2012 | 9:14 am
    How Thin the Veil as I lie alone in the dead of night burglar moon at the window having stolen the colors of this day the world chill and quiet I wonder how thin the veil between here and gone and what will be the final breath the beckoning breeze the courier gust to part that curtain to lift and carry me ← → through to where to what I do not know only that the day the hour the moment draws ever closer as I lie alone in the dead of night • • • rob kistner © 2012

  • Specter

    Rob Kistner
    10 Jan 2012 | 8:13 pm
      Specter child of tragedy touched by death entangled in melancholy clouded by sorrows that shadow your garden of dreams rob kistner © 2012

  • The Edge

    Rob Kistner
    27 Dec 2011 | 12:19 pm
      The Edge standing at the edge feeling far below the great tides the ebb and flow the rise and fall the come and go of centuries wave by wave day by day might incarnate the power of indifference the surge of perfect apathy and I as insignificant as the grain of sand bounced and tumbled dragged helpless in the undertow and that crest of froth rises up in beckon the silk of azure blue slides smoothly down its slope of back as it dances on the deep how easy I could slip into that fathomed realm down down ever down into the waiting silence without so much a noticed sound absorbed into the…

  • Golden Lady

    Rob Kistner
    26 Dec 2011 | 11:32 am
      Golden Lady golden lady in sensuous silk a beauty sure to mesmerize sculpted by a master’s hand so seductive as to scandalize a stare of comely crystal blue floats above a ruby pout spellbound by her magic eyes she holds your soul with no way out her tongue tip teases her top lip’s edge like a supple paintbrush flowing her smile will fire and hypnotize then wrap around you knowing you are now her helpless captive quite hopelessly addicted in the velvet grip of this smoldering waif is she an angel — or is she wicked rob kistner © 2011 • linked at Magpie Tales ____________…
 
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  • Review- Coupon Dunia

    Priyanka's Neverland
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:23 pm
    Hello Friends! Have you ever wanted to get into those online shopping sites and SHOP TILL YOU DROP! Haha! I have, most certainly. That is when I came across this amazing site, called Coupon Dunia. The best part about Coupon Dunia is that we have access to discount coupons, offers, best deals online that can be used to avail offers at sites such as Flipkart, Dominos,etc and brands and items such as Music Cds, Books, Housewares, and so much more! You will have to see it, to believe it!  It is also, the first initiative in India, to have so many discount coupons for such a variety of…

  • I loved her, Maybe I do.

    Priyanka's Neverland
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:28 pm
    You know my friend, I loved her. Like, really loved her. Truly, madly and without thinking. She was my only, my secret, the greatest. I was with many, but I always carried her in my heart. I needed her the most, and I hurt her the most. I couldn't accept the fact that I love, so I pushed her away. I constantly came to her, but actually I ran away from her. At some point I'd show her that I care and at next I'd prove it that I'm rubbish. And the worst thing of all, whenever I returned, she was always there. And now.. -What now? You've gotten over her?  -No way, there are moments when I…

  • Writing Defines My Life!

    Priyanka's Neverland
    21 Jan 2012 | 6:24 am
    A writer is not born in a day's time. Such was the case with me. Writing has been my only passion. Last year, 2010 has been a nightmare! I lost a very dear friend of mine, to something as trivial as Dengue. We were playing like kids, dancing in the rain singing songs, playing dumb charades, antakshari and enjoying life to its fullest. Ten days later, he was lying lifeless in my arms. That sight still breaks me down.Days followed and I cornered myself to an existence where I knew no one at all and no one knew me. For almost a month, I saw one by one, all "friends" go away. It had been…

  • Book Review: Autumn In My Heart by Saptarshi Basu

    Priyanka's Neverland
    16 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Format: PaperbackLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9789380828541Pages: 162Price: 150.00 The only place where there is no change is our life. It is the same old routine..No matter what you do, you can't satisfy people, you say how much they mean to you and they think you are a flirt..or even better, a liar..or even much better.. an insensitive person. Closing his eyes, he felt the raindrops on his face....He silently thanked someone, somewhere up above. Love never dies.As a sapling,it again rises silently from a secret corner of the heart. Deb opened his hand and tried to feel the drops. Rain..Rain In…

  • The Girl who wanted to be the Pauper

    Priyanka's Neverland
    15 Jan 2012 | 8:18 am
    Bubbles intangible egos rise up, as I drown further into into my tryst with destiny. Wings they flutter invincibly into the waters escaping judgments that surround. Rockhits the headthoughts clatter and dash against itthudding into a orgasmic symphonyBloodrushes from membranes to the sea-floorI feel happy and at peace,Another Dead poet writes a story,that is seldom remembered,but often rehearsed.(The stage curtains bow down,we come to the end of a beginninglet this poet die and maybe the next time,She would become the pauper with the prince blood.)
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  • Munawwar Rana - Maan Dua Karti Hui Khwaab Mein Aa Jaati Hai

    Yaadein Missing You
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:30 pm
     जब कभी कश्ती मेरी  सैलाब में आ जाती है दिल की गलियों से तेरी  याद निकलती ही नहीं सारी मिट्टी मेरे  तालाब में आ जाती है Jab kabhi kashti meri sailaab mein aa jaati hai Maan dua karti hui khwaab mein aa jati hai Roz main apne lahoo se use khat likhta hoon Roz ungli meri tezaab mein aa jati hai Dil ki galiyon se teri yaad nikalti hi nahi Sohni fir isi punjaab mein aa jati hai Raat bhar jaagte rahne…

  • Agneepath 2012 Song - O Saiyaan - Hritik, Priyanka - Sung By Roop Kumar Rathore

    Yaadein Missing You
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:15 pm
    Meri.. adhoori.. kahani..Lo.. dastan.. ban gayiHo.. tune chua aaj aise…Main kya se kya ban gayiSehme hueSapne mereHaule haule angdaiyan le raheThehre hueLamhe mereNayi nayi gehraiyan le raheZindagi nePehni haiMuskanKarne lagi haiItna.. karamKyun na jaaneKarvat lene lage hainArmaan phir bhiHai aankh numKyun na jaaneO saiyan…..Aaa.. a.. a..Odhu teri kayaSolah singar main saja loonSangamKi yeh rainaIs mein tyohar main mana loonKhushbu teriChoo keKastoori ho jaunKitni pheeki thi mainSindoori ho jaunSur se zaraBehki huiMeri duniya thi badi besuriSur mein tereDhalne lagiBani re piyaMain wahi…

  • Mirza Ghalib - Kaaba Kis Munh Se Jaaoge Ghalib Sharam Tumko Magar Nahi Aati

    Yaadein Missing You
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    है कुछ ऐसी ही बात जो चुप है, दाग-ए-दिल गर नज़र नहीं आता, हम वहाँ हैं जहाँ से हमको भी, क्यों न चीखों की याद करते हैं, मरते हैं आरज़ू में मरने की, Koi ummeed bar nahi aati, koi surat nazar nahi aatiMaut ka ek din muayyan hai, Neend kyun raat bar nahi aatiAage aati thi haal e dil pe hasi, Ab kisi baat par nahi aatiHai kuch aisi hi baat jo chup…

  • Hai Preet Jahaan Ki Reet Sada Main Geet Vahan Ke Gaata Hoon

    Yaadein Missing You
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:11 pm
    भगवान करे ये और बढे, बढ़ता ही रहे और फूले फले  भारत का रहने वाला हूँ, भारत की बात सुनाता हूँ Jab zero diya mere Bharat ne Bharat ne mere Bharat neduniya ko tab ginti aayitaaron ki bhasha Bharat neduniya ko pahle sikhlaayiDeta na dashamlav Bharat toYoon chand pe jaana mushkil thaDharti aur Chand ki doori kaandaaza lagaana mushkil thaSabhyata jahan pahle aayiSabhyata jahan pahle aayipahle janmi hai jahan pe kalaApna Bharat wo Bharat haijiske peeche…

  • Rahat Indori - Agar khilaaf hain hone do

    Yaadein Missing You
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:52 am
    अगर ख़िलाफ़ हैं होने दो जान थोड़ी हैये सब धुआँ है कोई आसमान थोड़ी है लगेगी आग तो आएँगे घर कई ज़द मेंयहाँ पे सिर्फ़ हमारा मकान थोड़ी है मैं जानता हूँ के दुश्मन भी कम नहीं लेकिनहमारी तरहा हथेली पे जान थोड़ी है हमारे मुँह से जो निकले…
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  • WHISPERS: Withered Dreams... Haiku on Love...

    Shashi S
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:26 pm
    Sharing some Haiku on LOVE and a longer verse “Withered Dreams...”Lotus Flower at ChandigarhHaiku on Love______A sense of deep connectionWithered within the lotus stalkAncient pond holds on__Irresistible will of heavenCry as you mustTo find the voice of your soul__Flower perishOne way or anotherLove flowers too__This is the entrance to our village Temple of Goddess Durga...In case you are wondering, the orange shadow is flames captured onewinter night...Withered Dreams______________The bells of deep knowingSounds in depths of my heartLove echoes forever in her smileIn…

  • 201st Post and 22nd Edition of Shadow Dancing With Mind

    Shashi S
    22 Jan 2012 | 5:51 am
    Welcome to my 201st post and 22nd Edition of Shadow Dancing With Mind”Though I have been blogging for almost 8 years, (First blog started on 27th Oct, 2004 – My Experiments with Spirituality but for personal reading) but this blog I started on 10th May 2010 for specific reason of sharing my thoughts with friends and public at large. The desire to know what people who don’t know me personally, think about my thoughts and getting their feedback on what I love and am passionate about, was the trigger to start this one. I am extremely happy that in one and half year of this blog, I have…

  • Remembering Hakuin Zenji - A great Japanese Zen Master

    Shashi S
    19 Jan 2012 | 11:40 am
    UP CLOSE & PERSONAL : Hakuin Zenji (1689-1769)Remembering Hakuin Zenji - A great Japanese Zen master who was born on this day today, 19th January around 3 centuries back in 1689. The most famous of all koans, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" is attributed to Hakuin. His one of the most profound poetry, "Monkey is reaching" is given here, with a beautiful interpretation by Ivan M. Granger, to celebrate this day ...Monkey Reaching for The Moon- by Ohara Koson THE MONKEY IS REACHING______________________The monkey is reachingFor the moon in the water.Until death overtakes…

  • Meditation Found To Increase Brain Size - By Sara W. Lazar at Harvard

    Shashi S
    17 Jan 2012 | 7:38 pm
    TALKING POINT: Meditation Found To Increase Brain Size – Dr. Sara Lazar (Psychologist at Harvard Medical School)What Yogi’s always knew since Vedic time (Almost 4500 Years ago), scientists are acknowledging it now. In a landmark study, Dr. Sara Lazar with team of researchers at Harvard Medical School agrees that Meditation Practice can help our brains to better cognitive and emotional processing and increase our well-being.“Meditation, it seems, is very effective at controlling the stress response. At Harvard University, Dr Herbert Benson and Dr Sarah Lazar are trying to find out why.

  • WHISPERS: Haiku on How I write Poetry and A Door Firmly Shut

    Shashi S
    17 Jan 2012 | 7:36 pm
    Sharing some Haiku on how I write poetry and a longer verse “A Door Firmly Shut On The Living...” In Chinese Garden - 2007POETRY______When love is stark whiteAnd silentBlood drops perfectly in place__With white empty pages, I metOn the path of living – LoveNow it’s soaking wet – Blood red__With bit of madnessStill left within, I bleedRed words on dark white pages__Holy River Ganges in RishikeshA Door Firmly Shut...______________The river cleaves mountain’s heartAnd leavesIn murmurs of wild streamFlowing away to cold depths of livingAn ocean of memories hidesBehind the…
 
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  • A Sonnet’s Unlikely Resolution

    Karen Swallow Prior
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:40 pm
    Where would we be without resolutions? Accomplishments would be only accidents, stories incidents just strung along, music mere unending notes, and poetry but a jumble of words. Resolution puts all the pieces together like a completed puzzle. John Milton’s famous sonnet, “On his blindness,” begins in puzzlement. The speaker (the poem is autobiographical; perhaps we dare say the poet) is pondering the account he will give when he stands before his God for the use he has made of his time and talents. But how unjust! He has suffered the loss of his eyesight—before even half his life is…

  • Alan Shapiro’s “Night of the Republic”

    Glynn Young
    17 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    In Night of the Republic: Poems, poet Alan Shapiro loads his minds-eye camera with film (or, these days, a disk) and takes a series of detailed, rather stark photographs. His subjects are the common, everyday things we notice only when we need them but generally ignore: a car dealership, a gas station restroom, a park bench, a dry cleaner, a swimming pool, a museum, a doorbell, a funeral home. Shapiro’s poetic photographs are sharp and clear; we’re not left guessing the subject. But they often lead in an unexpected direction, as common, everyday things can do. Consider “Barbershop,”…

  • Tania Runyan’s “A Thousand Vessels”

    Glynn Young
    12 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    Some of the most powerful stories in the Bible are about women – Eve, Sarah, Deborah, Ruth, Esther, Mary, Mary Magdalene, the woman at the well, and the woman who touched Jesus’s clothes, to mention a few of the more obvious ones. Their stories are stories of sin, disbelief, leadership, faithfulness, courage, faith and steadfastness. These stories speak to both men and women, and most likely because they are most of all human stories, things we recognize and understand. In poetry, these stories can become our stories. That’s what poet Tania Runyan accomplishes in A Thousand Vessels:…

  • Dave Malone’s “Under the Sycamore”

    Glynn Young
    10 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Quick: name a contemporary love poem. Hard, right? In contemporary poetry, one doesn’t find much about love – the emotion, the feeling, the condition that is so characteristics of a considerable body of poetry from earliest times to the 20th century. Think Song of Solomon, the Greeks and Romans. Think of Boccaccio, the Elizabethans (those sonnets!) and the Cavalier poets, the Romantics and even the Victorians. But something happened in the century just past. Perhaps two world wars, a major depression, the rise of the media and the dominance of Freudian psychology pushed love poetry into a…

  • Every Day Poems is Now on Twitter

    L. L. Barkat
    5 Jan 2012 | 5:19 pm
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