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October 27, 2009
- This Friday, October 30th, the work of Judy Grahn (and her new collection/selection from Aunt Lute Books) will be celebrated at an All Hallows' Eve Extravaganza. If we went on just the titles of her poems and stories alone we'd want to show up! Mention "A Woman is Talking to Death" or "The Psychoanalysis of Edward the Dyke" and I'm there. But her substance is more than ...
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October 12, 2009
- Please have a look at my journal on my blog [which is a great tool for writers to spread the word for anything they post on RedRoom__which is good for promoting reach and breath from a post you've made here. Here is the link to the visual representation of my journal page: http://michaelpokocky.posterous.com/does-seeing-my-journal-interest-anyone I have been keeping journals since I was 12 and ...
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July 18, 2009
- Poetry Events / CalendarsPoetry Events and Calendars in your Town or City[Please post addt'l venues in comments to be added!]~~~ALAlabama – http://www.writersforum.org/~~~CACalifornia / West Coast – http://www.poetryflash.org/Bay Area, California — Spoken Word ListingsGlendale, California – http://www.poeticresearch.com/Los Angeles, ...
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July 16, 2009
- A Map Through the Mines of My Book 30 04 2009 By Lissa Kiernan @ Arsenic Lobster [two excerpts]: The book’s 60 poems, in savant-like methodical brilliance, are arranged in alpha-order and prefaced by a quote from Virginia Woolf’s cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando: “Everything, in fact, was something else.” This frames things perfectly, for to ...
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July 16, 2009
- Ashok and Adam Are At “It” Again… 26 06 2009 Frightened Rabbit makes the kids dance above. ~~~ Ashok and Adam Are At “It” Again… You know, that task we fear and dread, supposedly, as a society. Enjoy! ASHOK — two excerpts: “The singularity of the leaf as death is distorted by our labeling the wind. …And consider that we ...
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July 16, 2009
- Little Bit o’ Love 4 07 2009 Three new poems up at Unlikely Stories! Stimulus Package, Survival of the Fittest, and Fake Memoir to Become Real Novel — loads more to read there. Happy 4th of July ! ~~~~ We have the same neck…. ~~~~
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July 12, 2009
- William Stafford set a standard for kindness, generosity, humor, and for poetry that was accessible and lyrical. A conscientious objector during WW II, he began writing poetry in a C.O. camp. He wrote a poem each day, beginning before dawn, and kept up this practice every day of his life. He died in August, 1993.When a young literary magazine editor would ask him for some poetry after a ...
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July 7, 2009
- The Judy Joy Jones Show live interview with Dr. Maya Angelou; fellow Redroom Author, can be downloaded through my Redroom Media podcasts. Hailed as a remarkable Renaissance woman, beloved poet, best-selling author; Dr. Maya Angelou; www.redroom.com/author/maya-angelou, has the unique ability to captivate listeners and readers through the vigor and sheer beautly of her lyrics and words. A ...
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July 5, 2009
- The venomous black beetle stung naked patches of innocuous skin; injecting paltry vials of its poison, Was considered a deleterious hazard; had people swishing at it with entwined broomsticks, Yet when the time arrived to sleep; she took refuge in the dainty petals of crimson rose. The alligator revealed its ghastly teeth in the brilliant sunlight; decimated the animate and ...
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June 26, 2009
- Mara mentioned villanelles at Spoken Word last weekend. Here's a form I like: the pantoum. It is a series of quatrains; the second and fourth lines of each stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next. This pattern continues until the final stanza, which differs in the repeating pattern. AUTUMN SACRIFICE Holy ghost mist Walks on water In morning’s sacred hour. Autumn hovers ...
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