Tag: poetry
group name: bibliophoenix
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November 05, 2009 08:40 PM EST --
A letter from anyone
A letter has been thrown from the window
of a white girls’ school-bus to no one
in particular and the glory
belongs to all the boys. The letter . . .
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October 18, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
Gibbons Ruark's new poetry collection, Staying Blue , is now available from Lost Hills Books. Gibbons has had a distinguished career in American poetry spanning over forty years. He has won numerous . . .
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March 26, 2009 11:14 AM EDT --
Okay girls and boys, I have been a member of Gather for a little while now and it has changed somewhat from when I joined to what it is now.
I remember this as a place more for writers than for games . . .
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September 14, 2009 03:51 PM EDT --
I first became aware of Judith Pacht's work when I edited a collection of poems in honor of James Wright, From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright . Her contribution to that book is a haunting . . .
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September 17, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
In bringing together From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright (Lost Hills Books, Duluth MN), I was pleased at the number of women who became involved in the project. Helen Ruggieri’s contribution . . .
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November 04, 2008 08:45 AM EST --
Last week I talked about the closing of Minnesota Literature and the failure of Minnesota readers to support its best source of information on regional writing and publishing. Today, on the brighter . . .
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July 26, 2009 10:18 AM EDT --
forgetting history
(To Richard Lynn Livesay)
We have measured the river and the flood
by the rise and fall of the moon’s lonely
empire each night. When the high tide . . .
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October 19, 2007 05:35 PM EDT --
Keith Miller's The Book of Flying , a fantasy novel for grown-ups, is a magical experience. To say that the language in which the story is told is "poetic" . . .
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August 18, 2008 01:30 PM EDT --
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Word for Word Poetry: A Tribute to Jason Shinder with Mary Louise Parker, Michael O'Keefe and More
Academy Award-nominated actor . . .
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November 17, 2008 06:46 AM EST --
Moon for a girl
Passionate moon is reducing
to a pale disk, deep down the dim
tunnel of night. "Don't go." Still moon
peters out. A pitcher-glass, full
with potent . . .
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March 24, 2009 10:30 PM EDT --
The train er
A power mushrooms in my muscles,
taut, alert; the ears honing to hear
an unseen, non existent whistle.
Small oranges are lying on grass
if you can imagine . . .
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March 25, 2009 10:34 PM EDT --
Divine Dance
(To Bhawana's picture..
<a href="http://www.gather.com/viewImage.jsp?fileId=3096224745594457&nav=Namespace"> dance with shadows
) . . .
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April 06, 2009 10:43 PM EDT --
Waiting story from another angle
: How long have you been waiting?
He has been here so long that
he can read the tongue of the shadows
of the window panes fallen on the . . .
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April 12, 2009 10:44 PM EDT --
Ol’ pal
A curvy creek with hovering trees.
Heavy and greasy water and small rapids.
The stream belongs to four boys fishing.
The breeze is deciphering silence.
A sandy . . .
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May 09, 2009 10:23 PM EDT --
So rcer ess
Touch of moss on the terrace is different, ask the cat.
It will tell you that and other stories, facts- if you hark.
Of course you are just the aged sorceress; . . .
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August 09, 2009 11:23 PM EDT --
I've given you my life
I've given you your life
I brought you into the world without question
Yet you find ways to hurt me
And I find ways to forgive you
Is it my own foolishness to keep accepting . . .
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September 15, 2009 09:23 AM EDT --
Cause and Effect Poetry by Chessly Nesci (2009, AG Press) is a diverse collection of poems and poetic short story/essay/ruminations. They range from recession-era ("Economy," "Dream House") to romantic . . .
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October 15, 2009 09:01 AM EDT --
Poetic Monthly Magazine #45 is out now; you can read it at http://www.poetstage.com/poeticmonthly.htm . I write a monthly column about writing, and for October my piece is about Gather's own, dearly . . .
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October 23, 2009 04:27 PM EDT --
This is an expansion of a book review I posted previously.
Cause and Effect Poetry by Chessly Nesci (2009, AG Press, $10.95) is a diverse collection of poems and poetic short story/essay/ruminations. . . .
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May 23, 2009 06:38 AM EDT --
Interchange
( To the Group Surrealistic Circus-II )
The last time, you took a point to touch the grass,
to smell, like a vintage Chateau Margaux,
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