poetry
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Thanks to the lovely Mary Biddinger for giving me something to write about. I need a taskmaster. 1. When was the last time you wrote a poem?It was last week, shortly after I wrote my blog post in which I claimed to retire from writing poems. 2. What was its title?“Joseph Smith and the Golden…
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Tuesday night I was bored. I was so bored I could no longer justify ignoring my unrevised poems any longer. I sat down and read through my Dorothy Gale poems, my Dorothy Eady poems, and my one Joseph Smith poem (yes, that Joseph Smith). As soon as I wrote my post about not writing, I…
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I’m pleased to announce the arrival of Sandra Beasley’s Washington, DC at LOCUSPOINT, featuring poetry by Derrick Weston BrownMichael GushueNatalie IllumE. Ethelbert MillerRod SmithMaureen ThorsonRosemary Winslow This edition also features the most extensive list of poetry resources at LOCUSPOINT so far. Thanks to Sandra and the contributors for participating! Arden asked me to post this:…
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I have a poem up over at Quarrel, the latest brainchild of the inimitable Dustin Brookshire. For the blog, participating poets select five words from suggestions made by bloggers-at-large, compose poems using the words, and then publicly revise the poem toward completion. Companion bloggers are the following favorite people of mine: Christopher Hennessy Dustin Brookshire…
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This just in: poems of mine I hated before I left for Phoenix are no longer hated. * * * I have two words to say about this: AP – John McCain’s campaign on Wednesday angrily called for an end to questions about Sarah Palin’s background, calling it a “faux media scandal designed to destroy…
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I’ve written about 10,000 times on this blog that I always know when it’s time to write again because I start asking questions about what a poem is and what it’s supposed to do. (It’s happening to me again.) It makes me a fussy reader, first. I’ll try to read some things, but I’ll become…
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