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removed because I needed to- if you want to see if email me and I'll send you a copy.

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She says In eighty years, she’s never joined an exclusionary group, no guild, auxiliary service club, nor clique consisting of only women (or men) or, one might presume any caste designed to separate one human from another in any circumstance. She must have been raised by a lady suffragette (if that’s not offensive, too) to be so self-aware so long and yet, the very fact of being a woman

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Girls with names like flowers smell of harvest in a pleasing way: like bundles of basil, plentiful greens carried fresh in woven mesh bags more accustomed to metal cans, boxes. They sweep through farmer’s markets in beaded sandals and loose cotton dresses, commonplace as canyons full of ladies humming songs only they can hear. Lily or Hadassah, names with long legs, who’ve walked across

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Lovely Rita On cable before long before it was accessible to most of us she used old words in new ways: Empower, Transition,  Balance. Told us to aim higher, stand up like her in those five inch heels. She failed to mention Ashley. On television life is two-dimensional. Trifling husbands better stay off-camera.

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I got my letter today- the deadline has been extended to Monday the 6th. They want us to give away books, something I've been really good at in the past few years. Go HERE to find out how you can give away books, too.

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Aunt Pearl and the one-way street It was a nice day to go the doctor- the only place she drove anymore, there and church, and Weingarten’s. Behind the wheel sixty years or more, she called her cranky old Buick Mildred after her hated, long dead mother-in-law. "Nobody decent would drive a Ford" she’d say but I never knew why. To me, one ride was good as another, but no car can help the driver

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this is dedicated to she who wants red shoes (you know who you are) Red Shoes for Sheri before eBay and Google it would be a family trip heading downtown ready to window shop at Miller and Rhodes, Thalhimers and Saxons. If the shade wasn’t seasonable, sensible would suffice: Buster Brown laced, loafers- pennies given way to dimes, the pungent scent of leather shiny patent to be

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This is a real loss to poetry- Szymborska has left us. A wonderful poem: View with a grain of sand

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here are some things to do while you wait for me to emerge from this fugue: A poem by Dorianne Laux A little blob of commentary A commercial, long in the tooth and all made up A poet on the road A poet you should read that'll do for a bit.

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Go to the Poetry Society of Virginia website for info on entering the annual contest- our judges are top tier (have included Claudia Emerson and many others) and the cash prizes are sweet- poems not published unless you consent so are still available for submitting elsewhere JANUARY 19 DEADLINE!!! LINK HERE

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I started writing poetry on computers back when Compuserve was king. I belonged to the writers forum and later the poetry forum (there was a brief run of an erotic writing forum- I recall being booted off because someone said I was underage.) Judson Jerome had been on the forum but died the fall before I found the place. It was early 1992 when I jumped into the forum with my first serious poems

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from the melic review- a poem I had forgotten about... Every so often I'll do a google search and an old poem will appear, like this one from summer, 2000 written after returning from the Austin International Poetry Festival that spring- it is mostly true. I BROKE MY TOOTH IN TEXAS This is the Gospel truth, most likely it was on a olive seed in a Greek restaurant Friday night, somewhere in

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John Hoppenthaler and Deborah Ager will be reading (see bios in previous posts) In the place of Bernadette Geyer and Anna Claire Hodge GREG DONOVAN and SHANN PALMER will be reading!! 6-8pm FREE Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond, VA

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Poet John Hoppemthaler TONIGHT!!!   FREE 6-8pm VMFA Meet Mr. Hoppenthaler: John Hoppenthaler books of poetry are Lives Of Water (2003) andAnticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), both titles from Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays on the poetry of Jean Valentine (forthcoming from U of Michigan P, 2012). His poetry appears in Ploughshares,

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First Friday poets at VMFA January 6 Anna Claire Hodge  # 3 Poets at the Virginia Museum January 6th (First Friday) Local Poet Alert!! First Friday in January at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts you will have the opportunity to meet and hear four WONDERFUL poets reading- Deborah Ager, Bernadette Geyer, Anna Claire Hodge, and John Hoppenthaler. They will read 25 minutes each from 6pm to

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First Friday poets at VMFA January 6 Bernadette Geyer Poet # 2 Poets at the Virginia Museum January 6th (First Friday) Local Poet Alert!! First Friday in January at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts you will have the opportunity to meet and hear four WONDERFUL poets reading- Deborah Ager, Bernadette Geyer, Anna Claire Hodge, and John Hoppenthaler. They will read 25 minutes each from 6pm

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Poets at the Virginia Museum January 6th (First Friday)  Local Poet Alert!! First Friday in January at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts you will have the opportunity to meet and hear four WONDERFUL poets reading- Deborah Ager, Bernadette Geyer, Anna Claire Hodge, and John Hoppenthaler. They will read 25 minutes each from 6pm to 8pm in the atrium. Free. About Ms. Ager: Deborah Ager’s

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Local Poet Alert!! First Friday in January at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts you will have the opportunity to meet and hear four WONDERFUL poets reading- Deborah Ager, Bernadette Geyer, Anna Claire Hodge, and John Hoppenthaler. They will read 25 minutes each from 6pm to 8pm in the atrium. Free. Click here for more info- I'll be posting individual pages for each poet soon!

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There are mornings when my web reading while I breakfast is a terrible waste- not this morning. I wish the list were shorter so I could carry it around, some of the thoughts are repetitive, but whatever- Go Here and Free yourself then get back to whatever you were doing before you read this. Did it make any difference?

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If you're looking for my poem-a-day entries- you won't find them here anymore. They were all drafts, unformed, unfinished poem starts- and I will be fiddling with them for awhile. I miss writing a whole poem each day, I feel a little lost, aimless. January- I'm looking forward to getting serious again. Got a couple of no's from my submissions, both with nice comments and please send more, it's

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Chapbook over at the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature Poem "Mrs. Klute" at PIF Poem "The bells done rung" at Qarrtsiluni Plus the daily poems, to be updated shortly Thanks for reading my work!

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Here's some good places for inspiration: Book of Kells also Poetic Asides or take a headline from the newspaper or get on twitter and check out some of the folks who are poets

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Poems are like children I finish up (as best I can) then shoo them out into the world hoping they make something of themselves. My poem "On the Ninety-Ninth Floor" which I wrote about 9-11 in 2001 (also titled "On the Hundred and First Floor" on the advice of an editor who was a Rolling Stones fan) has been used in two different school English programs and been published numerous times in print

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Thursday, October 27 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm C'est Le Vin15 N. 17th St. RVA 23219  

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or is it Shann with a new haircut by her personal stylist? Makes me wanna write a jazz hot poem-

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If you are interested, find it HERE If you want to receive a copy in your email, let me know, I'm the editor! The annual contest begins November 1st and runs through January 19th (Poe's Birthday) Cash prizes, some pretty substantial, quality well-known judges that change every year! C'mon- you know you want to!

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And this is why I purchase books at these two stores (or occasionally from a writer at a reading): Read this article if you love books My husband noticed Books-a-Million on Broad Street is closed. I never much cared for the place for books- the staff was generally good and the magazine selection was the best in town (at least for my cross stitch). The loss of any bookstore diminishes all of us.

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What could be more fun than poems for Halloween?? A most benign holiday, apparently safe for all faiths- or those with little. Click HERE for selections.... and Boo!

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Congratulation Lisa Russ Spaar 2011 Recipient The Carole Weinstein Prize in Poetry, established in 2005, is awarded annually to a poet with strong connections to central Virginia. The $10,000 prize recognizes significant recent contribution to the art of poetry and a broad range of achievement in the field. from Poetry Daily

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Did I mention I'm writing a sevenling a day for the month of October? So far, it's been interesting- not as easy as I'd thought, but fun. link HERE give it a try- I'll post one soon...

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Then be here Tuesday night- yeah- I know, it's Maryland. Taylor Mali

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He's writes difficult poetry, only available through translation. He's 80. He's not Bob Dylan, or American. "Transtromer, whose subtle, multi-layered work often deals with the relation between man and nature or the conscious and unconscious, is a regular on the list of favourites to win the prize." Simon Johnson, Reuters What do I think? Dunno, really. I'm not a huge fan of The Poet With the

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Read Skip-Tracing Angels Click here- Read the other stuff, too! Tell me what you like!

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Lotsa Poets! Put on yer underwear and get ready to go! Nick Lantz Sept 28 Norge Library reading Oct 1 Megan Martin and Kristi Maxwell Oct 3 Richmond Secrets reading  art6 October 14 Carolyn Forche    Oct 14 UR more coming

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Here it is Jubilee over at Scissors and Spackle

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Sequence All my poems scamble in shrimp nets, full and fishy, tossed across the deck of boats where lazy afternoons sway honky-tonk music. Sometimes in the middle of a dream I'll hear a Cajun tune I can't remember when I'm awake. Makes me wonder what else I've forgotten, who sang. When I shut my eyes I see grainy 8mm movies, stop-action black and white flashbacks in wonky angles, smooth

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It's been awhile- earthquakes, hurricanes, 5 day power outages, but I'm back and ready to go with news and such: Tonight at UR: Honor Moore, Distinguished Writer in Residence Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7 p.m. Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Honor Moore has published a memoir, The Bishop’s Daughter, and a biography, The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her

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I can't sleep- I hate this- I am behind on everything! Poetry workshop again at Grace Church Wednesday, August 31 at 2pm and 7:30pm scroll down the page for more info- Please come! my personal earthquake damage. At least the Waterford (colleen) tumbler didn't break.

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It;'s a new world out there, children. They can cast Philip Levine as the Studs Terkel of poetry, but they can't make a single baby boomer young again- and double that when you judge it poetry. (Okay, I got a little lost on the good ship trope but I'm not rewritting this- it's not a poem). ANYWAY,  Click here to get some interesting opinions- and click on the specific poetry links. Tell me

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Poetry can do that, if it's the right poem (by Cate Peebles) at the right moment of chaos in my day Read it and weep Maybe it's because I window shopped at a couple of little odd-shops on Lakeside Ave today (across the street from Consignment Corner, where we also shopped). There's something about the sight of objects someone doesn't need anymore that makes me happy - they are relieving

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Head wordy fella And so it's the personable curmudgeon Philip Levine as our new poet laureate. A "working man" because he grew up in Detroit. A "common" man because he isn't an elite New Yorker. I happen to like his poems. A lot. But there is a certain cynicism attached to the decision to offer up a "commoner" to the people, when the middle class is under such pressure. At least that would

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Check this out: an ebook promo from MelvilleHouse Publishing AND you can get it right here in Richmond at The Fountain Bookstore!! It's free if you do it in the next four days!! I got mine.

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Summer is tough for poetry- it's hot, other things call (barbecue, watermelon, naps) and general folderoling around. So I got nothin' But here's a poem by Tony Hoagland you might like Summer mmm, yeah.

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eleven years ago on PIF Interstate nine years ago at the Melic Review (I wanted to) Dance on Your Grave if they had been published in print journals, these poems would be lost. I love the internet!!

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To all concerned: There is NO List at this time for nominations for Virginia Poet Laureate! Kelly Cherry is the current laureate and will serve until her term expires in Fall of 2012. When the time comes, probably early spring, the newsletter for the Poetry Society of Virginia will contain a ballot where interested parties can submit names. Ten names will go forward to the MEMBERSHIP of the

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Poem a Day from the Academy of American Poets by Stuart Dischell Click here

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Poem accepted for Scissors & Spackle for the 1/11 Equinox issue (out September 30th) Submitting like crazy- leaving tomorrow for West Virgina for the Writers Workshop at WVU with Denise Duhamel- I hope the family doesn't stop up the sink or the toilet while I'm gone! More poems after that- still working on my "Assassin" series.........

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Read this now- it's wonderful CLICK HERE Love it, love it, love i!

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besides my aunts, I loved Liberace and JoAnne Castle and

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Watch this movie free thru Sunday night- seriously- watch it!!! http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/the-proven-cancer-cure-the-fda-has-tried-to-surpress/ I'm from the FDA and I'm here to kill you...oh- and to get rich from your money while I do it!

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Why Poets are not Optimists up too late assembling chapbooks she hopes to make gas money, maybe get a sandwich, have a little extra for the weekend for the farmers market- early tomatoes, peaches, maybe, feel like a success in the face of so many people grinding out poetry, she doesn’t even have what she’ll read picked out or her dress nothing is timed nor in large fonts now she won’t get

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In case you thought Mark Rylance was riffing- here is the prose poem he used in his acceptance speech... POEM Don't tell me poetry can't be memorized if it doesn't rhyme!

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Selected Jumble of covers, I am not trapped, I am not trapped. Aggregate calamities, opportunity + idea = advantage. Covert operations indicate a lack of documentation. Sancho Panza got it right (about the pitcher). Slipping into tepid waters, I remember how to swim. Under the influence/ it is too easy to ignore the obvious old injuries telegraph a warning, too late, too late I throw myself

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Half an inch of water I’ve never been confused for someone else, who’s missed a plane to Memphis, fought with a ragtag few against the many, stepping forward when those near me don't. I’d rather duck and run, look busy, divert attention when necessary, or just say No. As the rope gets to me, I’ll ease it out, unwilling to hang alone or with others. When it is time to stand I’ll watch

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removed for revision

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Removed for revision.

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removed for revisions

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removed for revisions

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removed for revisions

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But that is going to change. I am (once again, foolishly, because I have a masochistic streak) writing a poem-a-day for the month of June. Frankly, I've been floundering since April, writing little to nothing for the month, doing some revising but I need a place to drop off new ideas, ya know? I have been doing cross stitch, which no one much does anymore. Just finished a monocolor tree/heart

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Read it HERE more on Tracy HERE and HERE maybe she just didn't see the same movie I did, or dream about that scene, or want to be there. Guess I'll see what the rest of the book is like. Young people. Sigh.

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All those poems, thirty of them, are gone from here and are being scrubbed and rethought to make them better. Ya missed 'em. Oh well. next year.

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Poetic Principles features poet Kate Daniels Poetry reading and book signings 6 p.m. Library of Virginia 800 E. Broad St. 692-3592. "The Pedicure" "The Hatching"

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write a poem a day take a poet to lunch buy a book of poetry donate a poetry book to a library or school classroom buy a book of poems from Fountain Bookstore (in Richmond) or other local independent carry a poem for Poem in Your Pocket Day!! April 14th attend a poetry reading all of the above and more.... I am doing a google group for daily poems- if ya wanna, email me! It'll be fun!

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A LOVELY POEM i can't help saying i think the last four lines are unnecessary, though, and bring the whole piece down a notch.

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Besides, it's a rant by the inimitable Ursula K. LeGuin- and if you don't know who she is, you might want to google her- Article - Click HERE When I was in my 20's, I could say "Fuck!" much faster than  "butt" or "fart"- words I was taught to never use in polite (particularly mixed) company! Thank you Country Joe! I also learned as a child never to say golly or gosh- these being derivatives of

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I am directing music for a production of "Annie" at Goochland Middle & High School - show dates are Mar18th, 19th and 20th! It will be fabulous! I am working through music for the choir at Grace Episcopal Church for Lent and Easter, Ash Wednesday we have a noon and 7pm service. We also have a "Local Talent Variety Show" at the church Friday the 11th at 7pm to support our mission work in the

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Help a family in New Zealand (or elsewhere)- donate to Shelterbox- here's a good source (and a group effort from writer Maureen Johnson- http://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/2011/02/23/the-last-little-shelterbox/

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but not a little behind- Writing, reading, and taxes. Three pieces in publication (or soon) more submissions on the way- today will be spent with th floor scrubber in the kitchen, somethimes art isn't enough.

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Oh yeah- I'm crazy and of course, it's documented- crazy poets If you want to find out for yourself- come to art 6 Gallery (6 east Broad Street) on Friday night at7:30 and hear myself and some other wacko poets prove it to you!!!  (it'll cost ya $5) Trust me, you can call it research.

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W. S. Merwin." Of course- what? Oh, Washington Post- you crack me up everytime!!! Click HERE for the full story (well, tiny story) We poets don't get no respect!!

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The annual contest by the Poetry Society of Virginia deadline is approaching. check out the details HERE get those poems in by January 19th- Edgar Allan's birthday... and sad news- Richmond poet (and contest winner many times) Norma Richardson died after a LONG battle with cancer. her obituary will probably be in the Richmond Times Dispatch tomorrow. Rest in peace with all the company of

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I am going to write a poem a day in January, also submit, submit, submit. It's not a resolution, it's what I'm going to do, First: Poetry Society of Virginia Contest HERE. I've managed to win and place over the years, cash prizes, so I'm going to start gathering this week. "Secrets" reading in February 11th. I'm not sure what else I'll be doing but it's time to get some poets together, find a

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Muriel Rukeyser  "If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger." Muriel Rukeyser 

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I'm freezing- I don't care about anything but getting warm. Busy waiting for packages to arrive so I can wrap them, that kind of thing. Ordered a number of poetry books (from the poets directly), still trying to get to Fountain Bookstore (favorite bookstore in Richmond) to pick up a few titles. For your poet friends: Journals (though some of us like notebooks- what have you seen them use?)

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Are you buying something useless for someone who doesn't need (or want) it? Donate something instead. Dean Young is one of our finest poets. He needs a heart transplant. Donate HERE Read the letter by Tony Hoagland. I did. I know my brother-in-law won't mind. Some poems by Dean Young: To those of you alive in the future Thrown as if Fierce and Wild Ode to Hangover  has audio If everyone

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From the Ninth Elegy: Maybe we're here only to say: house, bridge, well, gate, jug, olive tree, window — at most, pillar, tower ... but to say them, remember, oh, to say them in a way that the things themselves  never dreamed of existing so intensely. Rilke I am surrounded by a community of lovers and doers. It is a beautiful time of year. When a car cuts me off in traffic, when the

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December 7th at 7:30pm the Virginia Benefit Chorale will sing at Grace Episcopal Church in Goochland to benefit the Goochland Food Pantry and the Christmas Mother. It's a free concert but we ask you to bring canned food and/or consider making a donation to the program. ALL money raised will go directly to this important cause that has been taken on at Grace Church.

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from the Writer's Almanac by Garrison Keillor (I subscribe and get it by email every day) It's the birthday of Julia A. Moore  born in Plainfield Township, Michigan, on this day in 1847. She grew up on a Michigan farm, dropped out of school at the age of 11, bore 10 children, and is famous for writing really bad poetry — so famous for it, in fact, that Mark Twain modeled a character after her in

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Posting poetry (or otherwise) has not happened much lately. I did write a poem per day through the 16th or so but my get up and write rode away with a handsome cowboy. Or something like that. Actually, I've been working, singing, doing the church choir director thing (Sundays plus 2 funerals). Two events of note: December 7th at 7:30pm the Virginia Benefit Chorale will sing at Grace Episcopal

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If you slow down the stars stay longer, the alarm doesn’t startle, the milk won’t scald, the toast can’t burn because you’re right there to see the sky lighten, to slap the snooze alarm, to turn the burner down, to rescue breakfast, then make some scrambled eggs, watch the cardinals sing, listen to Joni Mitchell, sip your hot chocolate, find the plum preserves, before the world grabs you

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Ask Alice She’s always saying yes when she wants to say no, doesn’t seem right how folks take advantage of her good nature, does it? Then she’ll turn right around and Big Fat No something that seems interesting, like a party or dinner at a fancy place she’d never go alone. Been known to say no to food when she’s hungry, squeeze her legs tight in the car too prim to answer in the affirmative

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Bamboozled, and on a Sunday There are always biddies and busybodies in a congregation - acting as spies for the devil. It’s celestial intelligence, meddling minions to insure the message is muddled, called out before the match catches, Lacryma Christi! The witnesses stand silent,mouths agape. The end is nigh, and always has been, (truth be told we never had a say at all). You, Lucy? And Ethyl,

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and there is sculpture at art6- and first novels at VCU- (that's Thursday) and poetry at Chop Suey and I'm writing a poem-a-day (so far without inspiration) and it's a dark and dreary day (which I love, actually) and I'm about to cook stuffed cabbage (with lamb and pine nuts) life is good!

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Here's a text you might consider. At least make it part of your personal collection. Making Poems Poets include Jan Beatty, Robin Becker, Fleda Brown, J. L. Conrad, Jim Daniels, Todd Davis, Chris Dombrowski, Dan Gerber, Jeff Gundy, Kimiko Hahn, William Heyen, H. L. Hix, John Hoppenthaler, Ann Hostetler, Julia Spicher Kasdorf, David Kirby, Gerry LaFemina, Mary Linton, Shara McCallum, Dinty W.

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Tonight we had a poet party on twitter- it was a blast! Some heady names were there. You missed it.

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Go vote for someone- me, for instance, if you like my caption! CAPTION CONTEST Serious fun. Read the Project Runway commentary, too- voting is at the bottom of that.

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Poetry Resolutions 10-17-10 1) To pay attention 2) To revise and reorder poems 3) To organize my time around writing poetry 4) Submit submit submit (contingent on #2) 5) Set aside reading times (poetry first, fiction after) 6) Clear my desk, clear my head 7) Walk everyday (I should probably move that up, it's doable) 8) Continue eating well, and plan meals better for the husband (who is quitting

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and I'm in again- but I might be out tonight... Go vote- go vote for someone! READ here and scroll down to vote

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Don't miss out on this!! 7:30  $5 Poetry, music, reception after

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September 30th (draft) She Endures through rain, then mud, then all the mold and mildew in the little house, her closet full of shoes and purses on the cracked linoleum floor beside mice nests, spider parts she scribbles on the wall behind her Laura Ashley paisley suit, her white Rainbow girl formal she writes: New York City, San Francisco, London, any place except home, here

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If you don't have a job- check this out: (not sure what it costs if you aren't a member) Come Enjoy!three October readings by P.S.V. Poets October 8th Award winning PoemsJoan Mazza, Evelyn Tower, and Rob Arthur October 15th Published PoetryPatsy Anne Bickerstaff, Ed Lull, and Norma Richardson October 22nd Favorite PoetsShonda Buchanan, Evelyn Tower, and Katie Brydon atUniversity of Richmond,

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A teaser for a documentary film about an incredible poet- My Story in a Late Style of Fire When ?? Where ?? That's all I'll need to know.

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I want to go to DC for Jon Stewart's Rally For Sanity- anyone wanna go with? "In his outstanding new book, The Misogynist, novelist and biographer Piers Paul Read makes a list of what he describes as “the Seven Sins of the Secular State.” They are racism, misogyny, homophobia, elitism, smoking, obesity and religious belief. Read discusses all of this with a breathtaking grasp of the absurdities

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Eternity removed for editing...

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here's September 4's draft *removed for revisions*

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VMFA will host the first event in the new First Fridays performing arts series on Friday, September 3 with poetry readings from four poets from VCU. The readings will be held in the museum’s Atrium from 6-8 PM. Admission to each event is free and open to the public. Take advantage of the late Friday evening hours, and view the works of art in the galleries, browse the gift shop or enjoy the

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A poem by Robert Bruce from poetry.org (the rest of the poem HERE) Jesus Wants You to be a Millionaire We know that he worked as a carpenter until he gave it up to travel tell stories and generally piss off people like me

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Interesting stuff from Jezebel An odd mix of the sublime and the sleazy- if you like to talk shit, click on some of the videos (I'm sorry- my personal opinion is, if you think talking about blood and vaginas makes you a better woman than me- I am so not impressed little girl- you don't know my life). Stand up, commentary, bullshit, brilliance- all under the heading of poetry. You choose-

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