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POETS ONLINE blog: Tales of Stubborn Children

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June 23, 2007. Tales of Stubborn Children. For July, we are looking at Peter Murphy's poem "The Stubborn Child". From his book Stubborn Child. Which was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize. The poem has its inspiration in a fairy tale of the same name from the Brothers Grimm. That was one of the few books in my life that I threw out. I didn't even want to give it to a used book sale. No doctor could cure him, and in a short time, he lay on his deathbed. So the child’s mother had to go to ...

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POETS ONLINE blog: Poetry and Song Lyrics

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August 26, 2011. Poetry and Song Lyrics. The online school of Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Is debuting the new online course, Creative Writing: Poetry, for their upcoming fall term, beginning September 26th, 2011. The 12-week course focuses on writing better lyrics through the study of poetry. Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics to Just Like a Woman. Are any of you poets reading this also musicians? Do you write poetry when you sit down to write lyrics? Friday, August 26, 2011. Poeta fit, non nascitur.

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POETS ONLINE blog: Prompt: Haibun Combines Prose and Haiku

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July 14, 2015. Prompt: Haibun Combines Prose and Haiku. This month we look at a short Japanese poetry form called the haibun. The haibun (translated as "haikai writings" is a form that combines prose and haiku. Haibun poems are used to write autobiography, diary, essay, prose poems, very short stories. It was used as a kind of travel journal when it was first used by the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō. Narrow Road to the Interior. Is a quite long prose essay followed by the haiku:. The prose por...

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Time and Chance Happen to All: September 2013

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Time and Chance Happen to All. Welcome to the blog where women writing from prison are featured. The ability to write, to express ourselves with words, is a gift. Most of us write for personal reasons and never think of publication. The business of writing is a tough one and hard to break into. The writings you see in this blog may be a 'first publication credit' for the authors. They write using pen names. Writing from the Inside- Pick of the Bunch:. Scroll down to the brown to read "Back to Square One,".

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IBPC: New Poetry Voices

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POEM OF THE YEAR. Poem of the Year. A Second Look at Creation. By Sergio Lima Facchini. The Man Next Door According to His Pockets. By Brenda Levy Tate. Carol for the Brokenhearted. By Brenda Levy Tate. Judges Comments and Winning Poems. Poem of the Year. But by no means passive. The storm together. - Kelly Cherry. A Second Look at Creation. Italics mine), "the admirable. Number pi" (italics mine- and is not the number pi entirely admirable, succeeding in all that it does? A Second Look at Creation.

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Like Waiting for April: Pattern Recognition.

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Like Waiting for April. April is National Poetry Month. Friday, April 13, 2012. There's a house in my neighborhood that kind of makes me giggle a bit every time I pass by. As it reminds me of this. I Saw the Figure Five in Gold. Which was inspired by this:. I saw the figure 5. Through the dark city. Just one of those silly things, I guess, but it pleases me and I'm thankful to the owners for their choice of house number. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.

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Poetry&PROJECTS (+Extra Credit) -  9/10 English, Ms. Glentzer

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9/10 English, Ms. Glentzer. Poetry&PROJECTS (+Extra Credit). Ldquo;The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”. Want to venture into new territory by exploring some cool poetry, and earn some points? You can read, respond to, and recite a poem, and present about the poet of your choice. You can do part, or all of the following project, depending on how many extra credit points you're aiming for. Find a poem that you like from a reliable source:. Or, you can explore other poetry sites like:. You wi...

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A Burning Patience: Poet Bill Knott

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And, in the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities." - Arthur Rimbaud. Friday, March 14, 2014. Died this past Wednesday March 12 at age 74, following complications from surgery. I first read a few of Bill Knott's poems in a paper handout in a poetry writing class I was in during my last year of high school (1971-72); the poems in the handout were given without the poets' names, so it was a few years later when I found his first book,. I've always loved many of the poems in.

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A Burning Patience: Darkness Sticks to Everything

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And, in the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities." - Arthur Rimbaud. Friday, May 17, 2013. Darkness Sticks to Everything. During the past month I read. Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems. Published 2013 by Copper Canyon Press. I very much like the book. I took my time reading it, a few poems at a time, going through at a quiet pace, letting the poems speak to me in their own time. I first read poems by Tom Hennen in his first book,. Tied to the dock.