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• Costa Blanca News-Civil War

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 149
  In an Alicante prison on the Costa Blanca the poet Miguel Hernandez was sentenced to death on January 18 1940 by the Permanent War Council during the Spanish Civil War.The sentence was later commuted to a 30 year life sentence .However the poet died in 1942 ,in prison. His family is still fighting the injustice of ...
  19 hours ago

• Shifting The Ashes

  
  Dean J. Baker - Poetry, prose, lyrics, prose poems — Authority: 122
  I turn on the switch,for the kitchen light:nothing stirs.Your shadow at firstdark as space,fades and falls behind.The streets climb into silence,listening forthe pulse of evening in your step.Where you come clean:as bare-ribbed winter treesThrust against the threatening sky.©Dean J. Baker©Dean J. Baker and ...
  21 hours ago

• Good Things Happening

  
  Humanyms — Authority: 121
  Part of Saturday will be the fall edition of the Ottawa small press fair at the Jack Purcell community Center at Gilmour and Elgin. It’s in its 15th year now. There are all kinds of uncommon things. Come for the paper, magazines, chapbooks, spine-books and ideas, stay for the social. Apt 9 will be there [...]
  21 hours ago

• Poetry: Gastronomic Lamentations

  
  Mormon Women: Who We Are — Authority: 130
  We thought this poem would be enjoyable for those celebrating Thanksgiving today in the United States. (Don’t live in the U.S.? We would love to have submissions that share glimpses of holidays in your part of the world!) ~By Dianne Billstrom When I site down To a scrumptious meal, I can’t describe ...
  23 hours ago

• 5 Funny Thanksgiving Quotes, Photos

  
  Beautiful Illustrated Quotations — Authority: 540
  Trash-talking turkeys just passing the time until someone took them seriously... Photo by stevevoght @ flickr from another of my funny posts: 21 Funny Thanksgiving Fighting Turkey Photos From Denny: I found some hilarious Thanksgiving Day quotes along with a few smart jokes and LOL holiday poems for this ...
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• 5 Funny Thanksgiving Quotes, Photos

  
  Romancing The Chocolate — Authority: 539
  Trash-talking turkeys just passing the time until someone took them seriously... Photo by stevevoght @ flickr from another of my funny posts: 21 Funny Thanksgiving Fighting Turkey Photos From Denny: I found some hilarious Thanksgiving Day quotes along with a few smart jokes and LOL holiday poems for this ...
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• The Poetry of William Shakespeare (Conclusion)

  
  Writing Forward — Authority: 116
  This is the final installment in the Shakespeare poetry series, following up on the introduction and the article on Shakespeare’s sonnets . Today, we’ll talk about “A Lover’s Complaint,” which was originally published with Shakespeare’s sonnets (do note, however, that “A Lover’s Complaint” itself ...
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• How poetry ruined my life, episode 2

  
  overland literary journal — Authority: 129
  If you’re paying $120 per session, the last thing you want to hear from a shrink is “Oh well, you’ll probably always be a bit disturbed”. Some days I’m almost sure I’ve morphed into Stevie Smith, the subject of my Ph.D. thesis. Some days I think I would even consider performance poetry if I could dress as ...
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• 5 Funny Thanksgiving Quotes, Photos

  
  The Healing Waters — Authority: 537
  Trash-talking turkeys just passing the time until someone took them seriously... Photo by stevevoght @ flickr from another of my funny posts: 21 Funny Thanksgiving Fighting Turkey Photos From Denny: I found some hilarious Thanksgiving Day quotes along with a few smart jokes and LOL holiday poems for this ...
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• 5 Funny Thanksgiving Quotes, Photos

  
  Visual Insights — Authority: 419
  Trash-talking turkeys just passing the time until someone took them seriously... Photo by stevevoght @ flickr from another of my funny posts: 21 Funny Thanksgiving Fighting Turkey Photos From Denny: I found some hilarious Thanksgiving Day quotes along with a few smart jokes and LOL holiday poems for this ...
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• 5 Funny Thanksgiving Quotes, Photos

  
  The Soul Calendar — Authority: 123
  Trash-talking turkeys just passing the time until someone took them seriously... Photo by stevevoght @ flickr from another of my funny posts: 21 Funny Thanksgiving Fighting Turkey Photos From Denny: I found some hilarious Thanksgiving Day quotes along with a few smart jokes and LOL holiday poems for this ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  The Frugal Chariot — Authority: 125
  Todays Shakespeare Sonnet #102 CII.My love is strengthend, though more weak in seeming;I love not less, though less the show appear:That love is merchandized whose rich esteemingThe owners tongue doth publish every where.Our love was new and then but in the springWhen I was wont to greet it with my lays,As Philomel in ...
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• The Stupids

  
  Dean J. Baker - Poetry, prose, lyrics, prose poems — Authority: 122
  My mind’s a thread unwinding; Ipluck at darkness, which falls.It won’t let the stupids out; itsuffers them to bray and shout,these Attic businessmen and women:busy, they are knitting spirit doilies.Must I endure like a disease the badand bright side of the living’s enemies?But who am I asking? We are sofew than ...
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• Poetry, Pages and Scribes at Southfield Public Library

  
  A Book Without A Cover — Authority: 133
      The first time Tom Budday set foot onstage to compete in a poetry slam as a young poet, he did so alongside some of the top ranked poets in the nation at the legendary birthplace of slam, the Green Mill Jazz Club in Chicago. And he won. He has been a vital member of the Detroit poetry slam scene ever ...
  2 days ago

• The title of poet

  
  Via Negativa — Authority: 468
  We like to think of poets as being a bit like shamans. The Greek word poetes means “maker,” and I gather it had thaumaturgic overtones at one time. True shamans, of course, almost never seek the role, but have it thrust upon them as the result of an extreme spiritual or existential crisis. In her recent ...
  2 days ago

• + Walt Whitman Award: Deadline Extended to December 1

  
  Dyslexia Tutor: News-Resources — Authority: 118
  other topics: click a “category” or use search box The Walt Whitman Award brings first-book publication, a cash prize of $5000, and a one-month residency at the Vermont Studio Center , to an American who has never before published a book of poetry.  The winning manuscript, chosen by an eminent poet, is ...
  2 days ago

• Poetry community rallies to thank and support Sam Hamill and Gray Foster

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 484
  KW: This story must have been meant to be posted here. First, I heard the news from local poet and poetry-supporter Barb Reiher-Meyers, then I stumbled across the same information at Blog This Rock while researching for a Maxwell Wheat post…An Appeal from Alfred Corn & Marilyn Hacker[about two of their ...
  2 days ago

• Brisbane New Voices: Fiona Privitera

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 127
  Today I am holding a copy of my latest publishing venture Brisbane New Voices, featuring two brand new micro-poetry-collections by Jonathan Hadwen and Fiona Privitera. It looks rather stunning and is putting a very large smile on my face! So to celebrate, here is a look at one of the poems from Fiona Privitera’s ...
  3 days ago

• games poets play: truths and lies

  
  Read Write Poem — Authority: 568
  by Dana Guthrie Martin Is the following essay about me true or false? I love the way hand puppets warm my hand. I enjoy talking to them and through them. Before I know it, my hand is moving on its own, and the puppet truly seems to be inhabited by something — dare I call it a spirit? Why not ascribe a spirit to ...
  3 days ago

• Cyprus

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 535
  In this poem, two star-crossed almost-lovers smoke incessantly in the cold blue dark. The comfort level is there. The banter is there. The subtle, psychic shorthand is there. Its at the point now where he can reach into her pocket to grab the lighter, and he doesnt even need to ask her first. And yet something ...
  3 days ago

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