Born in Peru, Vallejo's second poetry collection, Trilce, placed Latin American poetry at the center of the Western cultural tradition in the 1920s. …
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Cesar Vallejo: Intellectual Instigator
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For Mother's Day: Poems About Flowers
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/491Mix a few paper flowers into your mother's day bouquet this year. Whether tulips or roses, orchids or lilies, find over fifty different poems arranged by flower. …
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Jason Shinder: 1955-2008
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15957I've never told this story. / Even at the moment / of dying, / I would say / it was someone else's. …
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SEMIspice
http://semispice.blogspot.comSEMI SEMICON Korea SEMICON China SEMICON Singapore SEMICON Russia SEMICON West SEMICON Europa SEMICON Japan FPD Today PV Group Chip Shots Murketing Summit Post Richard Edelman Scott's UltraBlog Poets
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19 Books of Poetry, Written By the Same Person
http://9to5poet.com/2008/05/17/19-books-of-poetry-written-by...Charles Simic
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Ode to CK Williams
http://meankittybox.blogspot.com/2008/05/ode-to-ck-williams....I have killed the spider that was in the sinkbowl and which has probably ruined my breakfast Forgive me It was poisonous so small and so brown Here is Mr. Williams' famous original, "This Is Just To Say": http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15535
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Double barreled reading series
http://reggieh.blogspot.com/2008/05/double-barreled-reading-...all of us who have to 'make the bacon' doing something that has little to nothing to do with who we are as artists (like Insurance Men Charles Ives and Wallace Stevens, or the numerous Doctor/Writers from William Carlos Williams and Ethan Canin to Rafael Campo, Peter Pereira and C Dale Young) The readings will be held on the third Sunday of the month at 3 pm from May (5/19) to October (10/19) at Clayton Fine Books, 317 N. Charles Street, Baltimore. We kick the series off this week with
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Celtic Mommy
http://celticmommy.blogspot.comuse different voices and faces - different accents and shouts and whispers - I am a one woman three ring circus of reading enjoyment! (Probably a holdover from high school drama and speech competitions.) We read everything... and with April having been National Poetry Month, we added reading several poems each night before our books. (Yes, this is a super late blog to be writing about April's poetry month in the middle of May-- sorry 'bout that.) So one night, I was reading to Emerson and flipping through one of
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Mentoring the next generation of veteran-writers
http://hummingbirdminds.blogspot.com/2008/05/mentoring-next-...I'm inside/the Vietnam Veterans Memorial/again, depending on the light/to make a difference./I go down the 58,022 names,/half-expecting to find/my own in letters like smoke. To read the entire poem (and others), go to http://www.poets.org/ There are other poets and writers who will be speaking to us like this about Iraq and Afghanistan (Iran?) 10 or 20 years from now. Some do it now on blogs or through hip-hop or via video. Others will seek out the permanence of the written page.
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Nothing Like the Sun...
http://erosario.blogspot.com/2008/05/nothing-like-sun.htmlI’m prepping the walls to my entryway today and hopefully painting the foundation (red) tomorrow. The stencils haven’t arrived yet… * * * My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) -- William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
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Dreams by Langston Hughes
http://mayogenuine.com/blog/archives/18Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.
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Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo
http://mayogenuine.com/blogHold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes published by Alfred A. Knopf/Vintage. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes.
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Wordsworth
http://watchmegroove.blogspot.com/2008/05/wordsworth.htmlStrength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. Full Poem
