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Staff Picks for November 2009
Posted by mamta on Sunday, November 08, 2009 (07:16:32)
This month the attention is on BLOGS. There is an array of good blogs this time and it was difficult to choose.
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Zero Point Zero: Credo
Posted by mamta on Thursday, October 29, 2009 (04:16:11)
This is an unpunctuated note I recently developed in answer to the question, "What do you expect from yourself as a poet?" I left it in its original form as I wrote it. It seems to work better that way; a lack of capitalization, to me, captures the stream of its evolution. An artistic choice, as it were.
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Poetry Is Doomed #25: More poems, fewer horror films
Posted by John on Monday, October 19, 2009 (13:06:40)
One of the things that really disappoint me are poems that attempt to strike my emotional chords with sledgehammers. Here's what I mean...
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Staff Picks for October 2009
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 (06:47:22)
This month the spotlight is on two forms of poetry - Quintana and Magus invented by two talented poets at GP - Huberjack and lordfuznut.
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Stolen Snapshots
Posted by mamta on Thursday, September 17, 2009 (05:09:57)
Eric ZORK Alan, a 4 time National Slam Poet competitor, is probably best known for standing on chairs. He is also known for gratuitously dropping names... like that he is the only poet ever to have his books [appropriately called "I am NOT a poet" blurbed by Dave Jones, Dobie Gray AND Wild Cherry.
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Stolen Snapshots
Posted by mamta on Thursday, September 17, 2009 (05:07:13)
Eric ZORK Alan, a 4 time National Slam Poet competitor, is probably best known for standing on chairs. He is also known for gratuitously dropping names... like that he is the only poet ever to have his books [appropriately called "I am NOT a poet" blurbed by Dave Jones, Dobie Gray AND Wild Cherry.
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Stolen Snapshots
Posted by mamta on Thursday, September 17, 2009 (05:02:11)
Eric ZORK Alan, a 4 time National Slam Poet competitor, is probably best known for standing on chairs. He is also known for gratuitously dropping names... like that he is the only poet ever to have his books [appropriately called "I am NOT a poet" blurbed by Dave Jones, Dobie Gray AND Wild Cherry.
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Stolen Snapshots
Posted by mamta on Thursday, September 17, 2009 (04:49:28)
Eric ZORK Alan, a 4 time National Slam Poet competitor, is probably best known for standing on chairs. He is also known for gratuitously dropping names... like that he is the only poet ever to have his books [appropriately called "I am NOT a poet" blurbed by Dave Jones, Dobie Gray AND Wild Cherry.
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Fusco's at old Cape Cod ( a reality show proposal)
Posted by mamta on Sunday, September 06, 2009 (05:46:14)
Blow by Blow account of Family Vacation.
Fusco's at old Cape Cod ( a reality-show proposal)
Seventeen family members, ages one to eighty-one, in one house from Saturday to Saturday.
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Staff Picks for September 2009
Posted by mamta on Saturday, September 05, 2009 (09:29:26)
This month's staff picks celebrate poetry, poets and a few poetry forms.
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Zero Point Zero: On Beginner's Poetry
Posted by John on Thursday, September 03, 2009 (12:25:00)
"Poetry, if one wants to push it to even a modest limit, is a very hard art and to quote [poet Donald Justice]... “one of the reasons poems seem easier to write when you’re starting out is that you don’t know enough to see how hard they are….”
-- From an essay by Baron Wormser on the revision process.
My guess is that some of you won't agree with this quote. My mission in this column is to try and make you think differently about it, especially if you want to be better at the art of poetry.
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CT-Housatonic staffers make beautiful music with new Alma Mater
Posted by loisseau on Friday, August 07, 2009 (07:35:00)
There's music in math and science and poetry. And, of course, Yepes said, there is music in the heart of nearly every human being. That's particularly true of the students ...
Link!
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Staff Picks for August 2009!
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 (07:18:12)
In a couple of hours I will be away from this simmering heat, sandstorm and desert in a place which has greenery, rains and backwaters. Before that it's time for me to bring to you another round of staff picks. So let's get started.........
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Magnus and G: Brothers in Alarms
Posted by mamta on Monday, July 06, 2009 (11:30:24)
Magnus and G: Brothers In Alarms A short story in five parts involving a snapshot into the lives of brothers Magnus, an alcoholic, and his mentally challenged side-kick brother G. Chaos and confusion reigns in a comedy that has strikingly dark undertones. Part 5
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Staff Picks for July 2009!
Posted by mamta on Monday, July 06, 2009 (09:11:31)
We are into the second half of 2009 and it seems as if 2010 is already round the corner.
This is the season of date fruits in this country. They are there everywhere, waiting to be plucked. That reminds me - I have a date to keep up with you guys. So without further delay, let me bring to you the staff picks for this month.
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Magnus and G: Brothers in Alarms
Posted by mamta on Monday, June 15, 2009 (08:29:16)
Magnus and G: Brothers In Alarms A short story in (four or five parts) involving a snapshot into the lives of brothers Magnus, an alcoholic, and his mentally challenged side-kick brother G. Chaos and confusion reigns in a comedy that has strikingly dark undertones. Part 4...
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Poetry Is Doomed #24: Finger-snapping Your Way To Greatness
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 (16:42:50)
Let's talk about something important for once: finger-snapping at poetry readings.
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Staff Picks for June 2009!
Posted by mamta on Thursday, June 04, 2009 (17:03:50)
New talents making their foray
Fresh voices with a refreshingly new flavor
A new season in the air
A new month and of course
A brand new staff picks.
So let's get started for June, shall we??
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An Apology and New Stuff
Posted by John on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (13:23:10)
I've been terribly remiss in contributing to GotPoetry lately. There's a number of semi-valid excuses but I'll save them for more precarious situations.
I don't write as much and it usually takes the form of short essays or statements though I try to maintain the flow and simplicity of my earlier scribblings. I still strive to be amusing.
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Magnus and G: Brothers in Alarms
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 (09:47:49)
Magnus and G: Brothers in Alarms
Magnus and G: Brothers In Alarms A short story in (four or five parts) involving a snapshot into the lives of brothers Magnus, an alcoholic, and his mentally challenged side-kick brother G. Chaos and confusion reigns in a comedy that has strikingly dark undertones. Part 3...
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Poetry is Doomed #23: The White House Poetry Jam
Posted by mamta on Sunday, May 17, 2009 (16:34:29)
If we can mark change post-Obama nowhere else in our society we can do so in the amount of ridicule that has been heaped upon poetry since his inauguration.
Guess whose fault that is.
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Staff Picks for May 2009
Posted by mamta on Thursday, May 07, 2009 (18:53:00)
Staff and curators peruse through the finished section of poems and here are some of the poems/poets/blogs we think are worthy of your attention. Check out these poets and their works if you read something you like! So let's get started for the month of May!
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Zero Point Zero: Rip It Up
Posted by mamta on Monday, May 04, 2009 (03:48:24)
About ten years ago (as near as I can recall -- sometime in late 1999 or early 2000) I did a reading in Worcester that started as a kind of artistic challenge and turned into something much larger, at least for me.
The concept: do a feature that consisted of a set of poems that would only be read once and never again. Seemed simple enough at first. But as I worked on the set for that first feature, I began to learn something about the nature of what we do as poets and the idea began to expand.
It became something I call a "rip up reading." After it was done, I didn't think I'd ever do it again.
On Friday, May 1, I did it again in Manchester NH at the Bridge Cafe, home of the Slam Free Or Die slam and reading, for reasons I'll explain below. While I wouldn't normally use this column to expound at such length on my own poetic efforts, there are things I'd like to talk about regarding the art of performance poetry that I think would be best served by adressing this.
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Follow the Leader - Extreme Sports Edition
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 (04:17:33)
In this one, we look at how absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's sort of like Macheavelli's the Prince for the Pre-Schoolers.
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Magnus and G: Brothers in Alarms
Posted by mamta on Monday, April 20, 2009 (12:22:47)
A short story in (four or five parts) involving a snapshot into the lives of brothers Magnus, an alcoholic, and his mentally challenged side-kick brother G. Chaos and confusion reigns in a comedy that has strikingly dark undertones. Part 2...
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