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If you’ve been wondering about the silence on this side of the Web, I guess now is the time to break it. I would like to say Happy New Year to my loyal readers and say that it’s been a great holiday for me – but I’m just as glad...
Poetry Video: the giant by Kate Greenstreet
Poets are getting more creative in how we promote ourselves. I’m glad to see it. I think this is going to be something we see more and more of in the future. Kate Greenstreet has moved us forward into the 21st century with this poetry video. I see these efforts...
Breadcrumb Sins: Featured Writer, Guess Who
A few days ago I discovered a new poetry journal in the form of a blog. This appears to be the latest trend in online publishing and one I welcome and admire. The blog format is the perfect online format for ongoing publication and suits the journal just fine. I...
The Nuts And Bolts Of Zukofsky
After reading 12-1/2 chapters of “A” by Louis Zukofsky, I’m convinced Zukofsky must have been a lunatic. Only such a person could have spent an entire life on a work such as “A”. I’m sure “A” has some literary value, but in large part it is a mad rambling. Zukofsky has...
My wife is a great woman. When I ask for chicken broth she brings it to me. And she does other things too. But I needed chicken broth last night and she made me the best cup of broth I’ve ever had. Thanks, wife. I’ve been fighting a cold now for...
Yesterday I announced I was reading Louis Zukofsky’s “A”. The poem is decidedly written in the mode of free verse – most parts of it anyway. But imagine my surprise when, at the end of Part 8, I’m reading along and happen upon a Ballade. Right in the middle of...
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vete a la mierda no voy a hacer lo que me dices que me ...
the senior lounge lizard croons “fuck you i won’t do what you tell me.” “fuck you i won’t do what you tell me.” “fuck you i won’t do what you tell me.” “fuck you i won’t do what you tell me.” while the nurse hands out medication. lyrics:Rage Against the Machine ...
God needs us as much as we need God 2006 ...
She greets us at the dock. We bring her ashes. From the boat we spread them upon her river. Bone grit explodes into a thousand circles welcoming home her borrowed physicality. 2007 ...
He leaps from the couch and growls at the sky. Then looks up at me - to say goodbye. Soon come the winds straight from Hell all we can do is bark and yell. The Earth is an ember our spirits release, another failed planet another failed peace. 2006 ...
tonight we huddle - the crackling fire gives forth all we require 2006/2008 ...
IndieFeed: Performance Poetry
Show Number 661. Learn more about The Mighty Third Rail (Poet: Darian Dauchan, Bassist: Ian Baggette, Violinist: Curtis Stewart). Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Jack McCarthy - The Swan on Nutting Lake
Show Number 660. Learn more about Jack McCarthy. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Gabrielle Bouliane - Life Sentence
Show Number 659. A very special call-in show in honor of Gabrielle Bouliane. BUNNY UP!!! Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Kyane Howland - Mother Daughter Slut
Show Number 658. Learn more about Kyane Howland. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Anis Mojgani - Come Closer / Here Am I
Show Number 657. Learn more about Anis Mojgani. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
Get Lit Players (Dario Serrano & Ryan Jafar) - World of War Craft
Show Number 656. Learn more about Get Lit Players. Contact Mongo, your show host! Check out The IndieFeed Performance Poetry Channel at iTunes and 1-click auto-subscribe CLICK HERE TO LISTEN!...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLNissue the fifthsummer/fall 200955 pp.Well, it's ABOUT TIME. Abraham Lincoln #5 comes screeching and hissing out of its dark crevice in the earth just in time for whatever festive, many-feathered seasonal ritual you strange gentle people celebrate. This issue is so tasty you'll want to LICK it....
Just out from Roof Books:K. Silem MohammadThe FrontOrder through SPD.The critics rave:"...scraping the bottom of the ... barrel ... write it off as a big joke ... we are ... repulsed ...." --Kenneth Goldsmith"...typical boring stuff ... can't appreciate The Front ... equate ... with rape...." --Katie Degentesh"...monkeys chained to...
Boo! issue 1 is online. Four of my Sonnagrams are in it....
Sandra Simonds, Used White Wife
Sandra Simonds' new chapbook Used White Wife available from Grey Book Press....
Keston Sutherland, "Happiness in Writing"
World Picture 3 contains Keston Sutherland's "Happiness in Writing," a sharp and illuminating essay on Wordsworth's Prelude and Adorno's advice to writers in Minima Moralia....
This program designed by Andrei Gheorghe is right up there with the most engaging and successful conceptual poetry projects I've seen to date.Brandon Brown has been talking about prosody on his blog, and this project raises some resonant questions for me in that context: first of all, is prosody a...
Read Write Poem
read write prompt #113: the therapeutic cleanse — a spa for your writerly being, by mary biddinger
by Mary Biddinger Mary Biddinger heads to the spa Most importantly, have fun with your poem, and try to surprise yourself with the decisions you make. Routine can be a good thing, in many situations. However, writers often get the sense that they are drafting the same poem over and over again, in...
by Dave Jarecki Where did the narrative wallpaper take you? Did you fall into a story of wagons and bottles, trip into a memory of women in gowns? Did you watch a repetitious universe burn up in the glow? Or maybe you ran with David Berman’s fragment and followed the Pennsylvanian...
the latest (virtual) book tour stop for ‘a walk through the memory palace’
The latest tour stop has been posted for Pamela Johnson Parker’s debut collection, A Walk Through the Memory Palace. Find out how Daniel Romo responded to the work at his blog, Peyote Soliloquies. James Brush provided our first tour stop at his blog, Coyote Mercury. You can find all our plans for the tour here....
poetry mini-challenge: fall in love with a poet
by Carolee Sherwood and Jill Crammond Wickham While reading Sarah J. Sloat’s chapbook, In the Voice of a Minor Saint (a wonderful collection … check out all the reviews on Read Write Poem’s Virtual Book Tour!), we stumbled on an old friend: the cento. A cento, or patchwork poem, is quite...
planning for napowrimo in april, and you are invited!
Hello, hello dear Read Write Poem community members! We are in the planning stages for NaPoWriMo. (What? Is that a groan I hear, or an excited exclamation?) We are planning another prompt-every-day for those folks who love to write a daily poem in April (which is, as most of you know,...
new senior contributors at read write poem
We are thrilled to announce that Ren Powell and Dave Jarecki are moving into the senior contributor role at Read Write Poem. Both have been writing feverishly for the site, as well as providing ideas for content and for the community as a whole. In short, they make this site...
gravity and light
How to Teach Grammar by Chella Courington
How to Teach Grammar for denis johnsoni don’t care about their commasrarely can’t follow an essay with a run-on sentenceor is it run-away words colliding in white space f r a g m ...
Museum Pastel by Chella Courington
Girl, just look at those painted orchids. Green and yellow swimming together, spilling over the edge like rainbow sherbet Mama made in July and spooned into glass cups. They slipped from sticky hands, crashing on black & white linoleum.Just look at those petals fringed in lavender. Feather boa she tossed...
Feliz Navidad Feliz NavidadFeliz NavidadProspero Ano y Felicidad.Feliz NavidadFeliz NavidadFeliz NavidadProspero Ano y Felicidad.I wanna wish you a Merry ChristmasI wanna wish you a Merry ChristmasI wanna wish you a Merry ChristmasFrom the bottom of my heart....
She Gets What She Came For by Chella Courington
No matter what you do, I sing “Stairway to Heaven” without end. Amen. Sugar on my tongue, chameleon-long, you raise your cotton shirt, spitting sticky rain. Over the Dutch Elm, Chagall’s wedding couple link hands and catch us in their drift, or is it their draft? Our stretchy limbs angel...
Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -In Corners - till a DayThe Owner passed - identified -And carried Me away -And now We roam in Sovereign Woods -And now We hunt the Doe -And every time I speak for Him -The Mountains straight reply -And do I smile,...
Blood Moon by Chella Courington
Sophie tickles my cheek with her tongue, and I give her my right arm. Like the Virgin’s mantle sliding over my shoulder, she rolls her muscles to the drummer’s heartbeat, washing me in light. Mama calls my boa a serpent, and me a dirty coochie dancer. Jesus is in covered-dish...
The Blog of Lewd Enlightenment
8-word poem: THE CONQUISTADOR MONDEGREEN STORY
Like aC noteMakes you feelFine....
I pray Half a pillTimes twoWorks....
HowThe flameFollows youAroundThe room....
Second yearOf the restOf my Life.* * *For SLY-C...
Have aHappy Birthday,Wherever you are,Daughter....
Wow,I get tomorrowOff!So sorry,Dad....
GotPoetry.com News
Sklenicka, a careful and thorough researcher and a poet with a feel for Carver's poetry and prose rhythms, says that when Carver saw Lish's edits on the stories for the book he 'was shocked. He had urged Lish to take a ...Link! ...
See what's coming up See what is going on in the Advertiser and Review region ov
An evening of poetry readings with The Portable Poets, from the New Brewery Arts Centre, in Cirencester, Cole's Books, Crown Walk, on February 26, from 7pm, tickets free but limited, bookings telephone 01869 320779....Link! ...
More than the hype & dash; and less
Vancouver is any writer's dream subject, whether the genre is poetry, such as Malcolm Lowry's searing visions of hell on Hastings Street, the novel, such as Timothy Taylor's comic masterpiece ...Link! ...
Date Lines: 'Barrio' benefit for the Magic
"No Holds Barrio" as a one-night benefit for the financially challenged company. Described as "an evening of poetry, performance and tequila slamming" that "asks the fundamental question: Can you be a Mexican and still love Twinkies?," "Barrio" ...Link! ...
Pathak has been “hugely inspired” by the bestselling and prolific Urdu writer Ibn-e Safi. “I consider Ibn-e Safi to be my guru,” he says. “For some reason, Ibn-e Safi novels were banned from our house. I used to borrow his books from a local library, and read them in our...
Gauguin Tahitian Masterpiece on Sale at TEFAF Maastricht
The rare late Tahitian Gauguin will be one of the highlights of The European Fine Art Fair reinforcing its reputation for offering the very best works of art for sale. The picture was painted in 1902, a year before Gauguin’s death, while he was living on Hiva Oa in the...
fait accompli
Contradicta If a picture is worth a thousand words, an insight is worth a trillion of them. * * * * Overcoming despair and indolence demands more than persistence; one must also understand...
Rock Beginnings Now and Then: Keepaway and Patti Smith's Just KidsThey can't keep away from KeepawayPitchfork, the music blog, gives Keepaway a 9! Best new music....Check out our previous Keepaway report on December 20th* * * ...
NY Times: Haiti in Ink and Tears, A Literary Sampler* * * * *Laraaji: The Dance* * ...
Earthquake Day in Port au PrinceRollings in Haiti...
ContradictaEven time stops for a moment, to bow, astonished, to real happiness.* * *Poetry abides in paradox: Too much is too little, too loud is too soft, too heavy is too light, totally deciphered by none, contemplated by all.* ...
Happy New DecadeImagine this: Imagine sung by John Lennon played for everyone this year as the ball went down for the crowds on 42cd Street and the many seeing this on tv. Toni and I were struck by the fact that they went through with it, even though it includes...
Poetic Asides with Robert Lee Brewer
Quick note: Four of my poems were recently posted in the most recent issue of Otoliths. One poem in particular from that bunch I had been trying to get published for more than a year. So, it just goes to show that persistence pays off in the end. Click here to read them. ***** For today's...
Nancy Posey Wins the 2009 November PAD Chapbook Challenge
Congratulations go out to the 2009 November PAD Chapbook Challenge winner, Nancy Posey, for her collection Let the Lady Speak. I enjoyed reading Nancy's entire collection, which includes poems referencing Gone With the Wind, Amelia Earhart, William Shakespeare, and more. As you may be able to guess from the title, this chapbook collects the...
Finalists for 2009 November PAD Chapbook Challenge
On Groundhog Day, I will be announcing the winner of the 2009 November PAD Chapbook Challenge. From more than 150 submissions, I have narrowed the field down to 21 finalists. Each person who completed the challenge put in more work than the typical poet. First, they wrote poems regularly throughout the month of...
Today (from 1-2 p.m. Cincinnati time) will be my last "live" session on the poets.org/forum. Be sure to visit, read the thread (which just happens to be the most active guest poet thread ever), and leave a question or two. Today, I'm going to be focusing on self-promotion/marketing tactics, but I'm up for talking...
Interview With Poet Helen Losse
Okay, as anyone who's been reading this blog knows, it's been a while since I've posted anything other than prompts here. Most of that is just me trying to keep up with my (ab)normal workload. Part of that is just me trying to get my own poetry together. But I can't sit on...
Remember: I'll be discussing poetry (specifically publishing poetry) over at the Poets.org forum "live" from 1-2 p.m. this afternoon (Atlanta, GA time). If you can't make it for the "live" session, you can still post questions/comments any time during the month of January, since I'm the guest poet this month. Click here to view...
They Shoot Poets - Don't They?
Poetry in Vitro: Volume 4; Number 3
Architecture of YouthComing soon to a poetry journal near you!...
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So it's that time of the year again..isn't it? It's a time for taking stock. It's a time for introspection. A time to reflect on the direction or misdirection that our life is taking. The fact that this is the first few days of a new decade only exacerbates the...
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Letras de Cactus ©2010 Poetry with a Mexican accent
SUNRISEThe door is almost destroyedAnd the door handle is coldBetter frigidityThan the branding of your handThan smellingBurnt red meatAs the incenseOf prosperityAnd the horse’s melodiesConjure secrets wordsDreams of hay and dustHigh tuning at sunriseWith the anointingOf caffeine...
ATTEMPTAlmost a wedge formationBut be carefulwith your fingersThey couldGet caughtAlmost a reflectionThe crystals convey20 different possibilitiesA modern wayTo read the futureTo tweak yourMotor skillsTo think of winterAs a national sport...
THE ROOSTER CROWSEarly in the morningAs I urinatedI looked aboveat the moonAnd it wasRaining on the oceanWith its pearlyWhite flashing lightAdorning darknessMaking of the water a signal deviceI walked through the dawnAnd found my bedI sat downAnd played guitar...
CANDLEThe candleIs under my handIt feels goodOn my skinIt soothesMy index fingerThat pointing instrumentThat extremity becomesA dogA pointerThat writes poemsWith its tongueA professional tasterA whimsical samplerFloating upFloating downWith the PacificThe winter’s sunIs as beautifulAs the bloodThat it smearsOn the cloudsEvidenceOf a day’s workProof of my lovePiercing the sky...
VOYEOURThe domino effect of your mindOf your spiritOf your soulA wish of lifeThat effortAt an extra costFortune & loveSeemed like the same thing to youYou poor fuck…Sugarcane of the nightYou are piercedWith diabetesTaste your afternoonTaste your spongeWith vinegarTaste your waterWith hormonesTaste the pharmacyIn the rim of your cupSee your...
WHO IT WILL BEOutsideIn the nightOn the vastness of the skyThe four starsForm a boxing ringI know who the winner isWho it wasWho it will be againI breatheWinter inExhale itLike cigarette smokeI know who is triumphantI know who it wasWho it will be again...
Carol Peters
My thanks to The Lyric's editor Jean Mellichamp Milliken and judge Erin Garstka for choosing my sonnet, "Provincetown Crossing," for a quarterly award....
Catullus as translated by Louis & Celia Zukofsky
[from Louis & Celia Zukofsky's Complete Short Poems, Johns Hopkins, 1969][believe me, you want to read the Latin line by line with the English]from Catullus LXIVlaeva colum molli lana retinebat amictum,dextera tum leviter deducens fila supinisformabat digitis, tum prono in pollice torquenslibratum tereti versabat turbine fusum,atque ita decerpens aequabat semper...
[from George Oppen's New Collected Poems (with CD), New Directions, 2008]The mastInaudibly soars; bole-like, tapering:Sail flattens from it beneath the wind.The limp water holds the boat's round sides. SunSlants dry light on the deck. Beneath us glideRocks, sands, and unrimmed holes.. . .No interval of mannerYour body in the sun.You?...
[Ben Doller from Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House,Tin House, 2009]Beret SpottingThe other other afternoon aftera hearty brunch of nectarine squab,scrambled egg whites & wet toast,coffee juice grapefruit juice & port,a fine cake made mostly of air & sweet spindles,followed by a nap on the prototypical orangesquare did I realize...
[from Joshua Poteat's Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J. G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science,University of Georgia, 2009]Illustrating the theory of winds [PLATE 23, FIG. 62]I mix opium with bear fat and seed for the butcher birds to give myself laughter. They shit themselves,their...
[from Amy Gerstler's Dearest Creature,Penguin, 2009]For My Niece Sidney, Age Six [excerpt]Did you know that boiling to deathwas once a common punishmentin England and parts of Europe?It's true. In 1542 Margaret Davy,a servant, was boiled for poisoningher employer. So says the encyclopedia. That's the way I like to start my...
Blogsboro Poetry Club
Thursday Haiku for Super Bowl 44
Like hobbits true blue we seek one Super Bowl Ring must have our precious ...
A corn country wind Hurricane Colts heads down South Blue skies for Blue Crew...
Colts fan caravan hot drive down to Miami singing ourselves horse...
I knew you once Like I knew myself Felt it When you were hurting When you were happy When you were thinking I could read your moods I knew you once Like I knew myself Read More at http://sashisspace.wordpress.com/...
I once met a woman who said she's osmotic I said, "That's okay, but Dear, tell me what if some might dissuade, perhaps go astray and let it all please continue reading......
I am not a cat person nor do I keep a dog share no especial equine love lack affection for the frog...
Nina Alvarez
Poem of the Day: This Quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies
This quiet dust was gentlemen and ladies And lads and girls; Was laughter and ability and sighing, And frocks and curls; This passive place a summer’s nimble mansion, Where bloom and bees Fulfilled their oriental circuit, Then ceased like these. -Emily Dickinson Filed under: Nina Alvarez, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, words, Write, Writer, writing ...
Poem of the Day: The Want Bone
The tongue of the waves tolled in the earth’s bell. Blue rippled and soaked in the fire of blue. The dried mouthbones of a shark in the hot swale Gaped on nothing but sand on either side. The bone tasted of nothing and smelled of nothing, A scalded toothless harp, uncrushed, unstrung. The joined arcs made...
Poem of the Day: The White Fires of Venus
The White Fires of Venus We mourn this senseless planet of regret, droughts, rust, rain, cadavers that can’t tell us, but I promise you one day the white fires of Venus shall rage: the dead, feeling that power, shall be lifted, and each of us will have his resurrected one to tell him, “Greetings....
Just like last year–the 10 most popular poems of the year. Happy Holidays and Happy New YEAR! 1. Ithaca 2. I Walked a Mile with Pleasure 3. Love Me Like You Never Loved Me Before 4. After a While 5. The Lost Son 6. Dirty Poem 7. The Unicorn 8. Deathless Aphrodite… 9. Wish for a Young...
Poem of the Day: What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts to-night, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply; And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain, For unremembered lads that not...