680 posts tagged National poetry month
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Tune in, Turn on and Don’t Touch That Dial
http://hollydays.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ tune-in-turn-on-and-dont-touch-tha…I’ve just finished reading Ellen Currey-Wilson’s The Big Turnoff, a humorous, sad, introspective examination of the author’s struggles to raise her son without exposure to television and to wean herself away from her own self-named TV addiction.
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April 30 : Jolene (2 ways) by Dolly Parton and Ray Lamontagne
http://lagrantirana.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ april-30-jolene-2-ways-by-dolly-part…I have always loved Dolly Parton. I used to hang out at Azul, my once haunt in Austin, and Joel, a barista there would play old records. We spoke secretly of our mutual major crush on Dolly as he spun her albums. Well, in listening to BBC's Radio 2, I came across Ray Lamontagne's new single, Jolene, was taken back to the first song with that name.
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National Poetry Month
http://lagrantirana.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ national-poetry-month.htmlApril marks National Poetry Month and some sites and spaces are offering poetry daily. I like that idea but thought I'd look for poetry in unexpected places. Some of those listed will be "recognized" poems, others are found or created poems (by me or others).
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April 29 : All She Wrote by Harryette Mullen
http://lagrantirana.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ april-29-all-she-wrote-by-harryette.…Forgive me, I’m no good at this. I can’t write back. I never read your letter. I can’t say I got your note. I haven’t had the strength to open the envelope. The mail stacks up by the door. Your hand’s illegible. Your postcards were defaced. Wash your wet hair? Any document you meant to send has yet to reach me.
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April 28 : May Day by Phillis Levin
http://lagrantirana.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ april-28-may-day-by-phillis-levin.ht…I've decided to waste my life again, Like I used to: get drunk on The light in the leaves, find a wall Against which something can happen, Whatever may have happened Long ago—let a bullet hole echoing The will of an executioner, a crevice In which a love note was hidden, Be a cell where a struggling tendril Utters a few spare syllables at dawn.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
http://beansfordinner.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 04/ edna-st-vincent-millay.htmlXXX Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
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Union Square Cafe Waiters Are Poets and They Know It
http://nymag.com/ daily/ food/ 2008/ 05/ union_square_cafe_waiters_are.htmlUnion Square Cafe Waiters Are Poets and They Know It We’re not sure how we missed this "Talk of the Town" piece in last week’s New Yorker — obviously we were distracted by “A Man of Taste,” D.T. Max’s fascinating profile of Grant Achatz and his fight against tongue cancer — but it’s worth a read:
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Re:verse
http://learningtoplaythebassoon.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 08/ reverse/Maybe it’s because I was psyched by National Poetry Month last month, I don’t know. But I have read several works of fiction lately that were written in verse. I started with a young adult title - Ringside 1925 by Jen Bryant. Ringside 1925 is a fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial
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Final Poem to Close National Poetry Month
http://hedgehoglover.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ final-poem-to-close-national-poetry…Ladies and gentlemen, I've had fun sharing poems with you for the past month. I will continue to do so as the year progresses and we slip into the next National Poetry Month. I leave you with this poem, one I wrote a few years ago. One of my favorite singing duos is Lowen and Navarro, to whom my buddy Rob introduced me a few years ago.
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Cheap Wine Lover
http://www.brianwithani.com/ 2008/ 05/ cheap-wine-lover.htmlCheap Wine Lover Seattle University's The Spectator gave "Cheap Wine and Poetry" some love for our National Poetry Month reading on April 24. Posted by Brian
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