March 21st, 2007 at 05:03pm Under Poetry
Dan Brodnitz has an interesting site about creativity and its domain: ?Conversations About Creativity? at Cecil Vortex. His new interview with your guide Bob is chock full of suggestions on…
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March 19th, 2007 at 08:03pm Under Poetry
Emily Dickinson was a recluse who published only a very few poems during her lifetime (1830 - 1886). But her poetic voice is so powerful and so individual that she…
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March 14th, 2007 at 10:03pm Under Poetry
We received word this week of a major new award for early to mid-career poets, sponsored by Poets & Writers: the Jackson Prize, which will ?honor an American poet of…
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March 8th, 2007 at 12:03am Under Poetry
The equinox approaches, reason for everyone who is ready to see the end of this winter to begin celebrating spring. Our celebration is a new seasonal collection of poems. We?ll…
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March 7th, 2007 at 11:03pm Under Poetry
Two millennia after Sappho, Sylvia Plath certainly occupies a more recent historical niche, but it?s history nonetheless, not even our present century. She was the brilliant young confessional poet who…
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March 7th, 2007 at 10:03pm Under Poetry
Readers will want to stop in and view the new and shapely poems we?ve added to our collection of Concrete Poetry/VisPo:?Rain Song,? by Ruth Nott?The Bird? and ?The Quill,? by…
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March 6th, 2007 at 09:03am Under Poetry
Three poems have gone to the InterBoard Poetry Community editors as our entries in this month?s InterBoard Poetry Competition, all by poets whose work has represented our Forum before:?The Bird…
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March 1st, 2007 at 01:03am Under Poetry
Poetry infuses words with aspects of the other arts — concrete poetry makes use of visual arts techniques, and music is everywhere in poetry, in the words themselves, the rhythm,…
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February 28th, 2007 at 11:02pm Under Poetry
The first woman poet of Western civilization, Sappho was legendary, a Greek poet of love whose work was admired by the ancients, burned in the Middle Ages, and still speaks…
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February 28th, 2007 at 11:02pm Under Poetry
A number of poets responded to our invitation to contribute more concrete poems for our collection, but we must issue this reminder: Our poem submission form will not transmit the…
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