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Kathryn Stripling Byer's Blog
October 13, 2009
- The new Poemeleon is up, one of the more interesting online poetry zines, out of California, at www.poemeleon.com. This currrent issue takes as its theme that thorny subject, Gender. The editor, Cati Porter, has done a fine job of presenting the material and Poetry Ed., Maureen Alsop, is a fascinating poet with a couple of collections to her credit. I'm delighted to have several poems ...
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October 7, 2009
- Aretha's Hat: Inauguration Day 2009 is a unique collaboration between two poets who have been friends since meeting at a workshop with A. R. Ammons thirty-one years ago. After hearing Elizabeth Alexander's "Praise Song for the Day," on January 20, they decided to write their own Praise Songs, beginning with an American Indian inspired "sky chant." Over the next wo months ...
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August 5, 2009
- Writers are supposed to be obsessed. Obsessed with words. Images. Dreams. The brush of silky wind across their inner arms, their thighs. The last light on leaves. The pokeberries hanging from their brances out side my window, pendants ripe for the picking, beckoning to be put in a poem about late summer in the South.
But first I have to clean up the barf one of my four dogs just ...
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