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POETRY: What Am I: a Conversation of Identity
Posted by Fenix9 on Thursday, November 19, 2009 (13:43:13)
Poetry News: what I am. And I finally understand I am what I am All praise to the great I am This poem won first place in the recent poetry slam sponsored by the English department.
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Poetry Corner: Parental love revisited
Posted by mamta on Saturday, November 14, 2009 (04:30:25)
There are lots of poems in which a poet expresses belated appreciation for a parent, and if you don't know Robert Hayden's poem, "Those Winter Sundays," you ought to look it up sometime. In this lovely sonnet, Kathy Mangan, of Maryland, contributes to that respected tradition. ...
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MA-All Boston, all the time
Posted by loisseau on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (07:00:00)
Michael Sesling has been writing about his daily commute on the C line - in poetry.
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Top five perturbing poems for Halloween
Posted by mamta on Friday, October 30, 2009 (05:57:12)
Poe believed that poetry should be primarily aesthetic and, accordingly, the sound and imagery of “The Raven” is magnificently sinister. ...
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Poem of the week: The Waste Land by TS Eliot
Posted by Fenix9 on Monday, October 19, 2009 (13:43:04)
Poetry News: ... form of a diagram. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis Is it possible to have one favourite poem? Responding to the National Poetry Day blog (" What's Your Favourite Poem? "), most of you thought not. "So patronising it hurts," was the reaction of one ...
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Admire pre-dawn magic of the street cleaner
Posted by mamta on Thursday, October 08, 2009 (04:47:00)
Tallahassee poet Laura Sullivan's "Street Cleaner" contemplates that sometimes it's too easy for us to move on after making messes of our world. Laura Sullivan is a freelance graphic designer whose 6-year-old son taught her all about the wonder of street cleaners, garbage and the pre-dawn.
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Louise Crawford,
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 (18:20:10)
A full-time writer, she is finishing a novel called "Crossing the River," and a book of poetry called "Five Ten on Tuesday." She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the ...
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Boy amongst the debris in American Samoa
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 (05:30:18)
Sia sent her reflections on the day's traumatic events and her family's survival to the BBC website and shared her thoughts with her family and friends....
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Poet's Corner: Cord not severed
Posted by mamta on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 (05:05:10)
An "aubade" is a poem about separation at dawn, but as you'll see, this one by Dore Kiesselbach, who lives in Minnesota, is about the complex relationship between a son and his mother....
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Recession expressions
Posted by mamta on Friday, September 25, 2009 (17:27:30)
Chloe Snow Lotoski, who lives in a modest bungalow in Ardbeg, was prompted by the current economic downturn to write this poem. ...
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Port City Poets: Neil Ray's triolet
Posted by mamta on Friday, September 25, 2009 (05:33:34)
Poetry News: Neil Ray, a Fayetteville-based poet, great spoken-word performer and host of some poetry slams in Wilmington , recently shot me this poem on Facebook .
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Poem to boost appeal
Posted by mamta on Saturday, September 19, 2009 (17:05:15)
A poem written by a Bradford on Avon woman to honour the country’s fallen war heroes will help to raise funds for this year’s Poppy Appeal. ...
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Pirate Poetry: The Sea and the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
Posted by mamta on Saturday, September 19, 2009 (17:03:46)
Poetry News: The song of the sea has long entranced the sailor and the pirate, too. Before the days of iPhones and netbooks, when even printed books were scarce, poetry was the measure of a man.
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Port City Poets: Poem of the day - Jean Jones, the "Lord of the flies"
Posted by mamta on Friday, September 18, 2009 (17:15:25)
Poetry News: This is one of my favorite poems by Jean Jones . One of the things I like the most about this blog is that it has become a forum for open discussion of poetry and of poets' minds and styles.
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Hear a Poet, There a Poet: "Making Bread" by Wil Hastings
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (04:33:13)
Hear a Poet, There a Poet" features poetry by local authors chosen by Northampton's Poet Laureate Lesléa Newman. It runs on Wednesday's book page every other week. Poems for this column have been pre-selected. Please do not send poetry submissions or requests to the Gazette. ...
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Port City Poets - Poem of the day - "Cloaked in Grey"
Posted by mamta on Saturday, September 12, 2009 (04:59:16)
In this poem, Andrea Young gives us an intimate look into the New York City psyche – the grey and the bright side of winter, the isolation and unity in that strangely tight-knit sprawling transient proud paradox of a city. ...
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Kooser on Poetry
Posted by mamta on Monday, September 07, 2009 (05:12:32)
Poetry News: Nebraska's Ted Kooser, U.S. poet laureate from 2004 to 2006, offers "American Life in Poetry," a column on contemporary poetry.
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Poem-a-Day DBF Countdown: Jericho Brown
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 (07:32:45)
Poetry News: September 1, 2009 at 12:00 pm by Curt Holman in Books , Events , Poetry The Aug.
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Hear a Poet, There a Poet: "The Hands of a Black Woman" by Sherrill Willis
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 (05:16:03)
"Hear a Poet, There a Poet" features poetry by local authors chosen by Northampton's Poet Laureate Lesléa Newman. It runs on Wednesday's book page every other week. Poems for this column have been pre-selected. Please do not send poetry submissions or requests to the Gazette.
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Hear a Poet, There a Poet: "The Hands of a Black Woman" by Sherrill Willis
Posted by mamta on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 (05:15:27)
"Hear a Poet, There a Poet" features poetry by local authors chosen by Northampton's Poet Laureate Lesléa Newman. It runs on Wednesday's book page every other week. Poems for this column have been pre-selected. Please do not send poetry submissions or requests to the Gazette.
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Poem-a-day Decatur Book Fest countdown: Stacey Lynn Brown
Posted by mamta on Monday, August 31, 2009 (05:52:12)
The Aug. 26 cover story “Monsters of Poetry” puts the spotlight on the poet’s art to preview the fourth annual Decatur Book Festival, to be held Sep. 4-6. This blog will count down the days to the festival by posting a poem each day by a different writer, to let the verse speak for itself. For Aug. 30, an excerpt from her book-length poem Cradle Song by Stacey Lynn Brown.
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Poetry by Robert Stone: unseen growth
Posted by mamta on Sunday, August 30, 2009 (13:22:55)
Poetry News: This grass is growing that I know although I never see it move but let the mowing too long go and easy see the cutter's groove.
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Poetry
Posted by anna9 on Sunday, August 30, 2009 (07:10:00)
Poetry News: At the recently re-launched Poems Out Loud site, you can see Stanley Kunitz talk about Gerard Manley Hopkins , and hear contemporary poets like Kim Addonizio read their own work.
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