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Poet Makes It Halfway Through a Lengthening Year
Electronic Media Columbia, Maryland - July 5, 2006

Maryland poet Thom Ingram has been writing poems this year. To be more precise, he has been writing a new poem each day this year and increasing the length of the poem each day by one line. These poetic calisthenics have been released both as a blog and an audio podcast on Thom's website at poetguru.blogspot.com . 

With his release of poem #183, Middle Children, on Sunday, July 2, Ingram officially passed the halfway mark. "The goal is to build poetic muscle I didn't have before, to surprise myself. The poems are not intended to be masterpieces each day, but there are some lovely moments in there." Middle Children suggests those moments: Democracy is what you get / when talent is the least of your worries. / All hail the charismatic and the pretty.

The project has been featured on several other podcasts and is a member of the Association of Poetry Podcasting at www.poetrypodcasting.org . The poems have evolved since the beginning, but Ingram ends each of his shows with the same challenge to all consumers, "Create something today." As he has each day this year.

Thom Ingram has an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina and has had poems published in local and national journals, most recently with two poems in Elysian Fields Quarterly.

Check out the Association of Poetry Podcasting: www.poetrypodcasting.org

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