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Discovering Dr. Safi Hasan
2012-05-07 08:35:00 In the fast and mostly mechanical lanes of life, literary congregations are mental solace and joy that makes life more livable and more lovable. Thanks to Appi Khala that she organized a literary...
By: Light Within
Amena Brown: Spoken word poetry
2012-04-03 14:18:00 Featured at Gungor’s “Ghosts Upon the Earth” tour stop in Wheaton, Ill. last Friday evening, spoken word poet Amena Brown delivers the word of God with fervor and passion. Here’s an inspiring glimpse into her art and craft – learn more about her work on her website... Read more »
Poetry by A.C. Clarke: "Woman Made of Glass"
2012-02-29 20:45:00 A.C. Clarke's "Woman Made of Glass" won the 2011 Grey Hen Poetry Competition for women over 60. This contest offers a top prize of 100 pounds and is now accepting submissions through April 30. I came across this exquisite poem while updating our Winning Writers contest database listings. The author and contest sponsor have kindly given me permission to reprint it here, since it's no longer available on their website. Woman Made of Glass She can't remember a time before she knew to be careful. No-one told her. She knew. Her mother used to squeeze her hand so tight she felt it crack. She's never risked touch since, spent childhood dodging the heavy arms of aunts, washing the smears of fishmouth kisses from her skin. She saw a glass frog once, its guts clustered in its belly like pale grapes, its small heart pittering: took to covering herself - high collars, sleeves to wrists, thick tights. Like an old maid said her mother. No boyfriends yet? the aunts would dig. ...
By: Reiter's Block
Free 2012 National Poetry Month Poster
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Home
2012-01-22 08:24:00 Sajini Chandrasekera Life is a miracle in this universe And the engine of life is linkage Water, air and nature are united To make a perfect living sculpture Earth is a miracle, while...
By: Light Within
Free April 2012 issue of Poetry magazine
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Reiter's Block Year in Review, Part 1: Best Poetry
2011-12-16 00:05:00 Loyal readers, I apologize for the three-week blog hiatus. I was writing 30 poems and poem-like scribblings for the month of November to raise money for The Center for New Americans, a literacy program for immigrants in Western Massachusetts. You can still sponsor me through the end of 2011 here. (I'm still writing poems, just in case.) This year-end roundup will be posted in several parts since there are so many good reads that I want to highlight. Today, I'll be recommending a few poetry books that caught my attention. Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, eds., Gurlesque: The new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics (Saturnalia Books, 2010). Unicorns! Masturbation! Dead cows! As Glenum writes in her introduction to this anthology, "The Gurlesque describes an emerging field of female artists...who, taking a page from the burlesque, perform their femininity in a campy or overtly mocking way. Their work assaults the norms of acceptable female behavior by irreverently deploying gend...
By: Reiter's Block
Silent tears of pain
2011-12-14 11:23:00 Sajini Chandrasekera For all these years, one word came from you Which echoed my mind and ears and hurt me so Silently I cried in a corner of my world Felt so helpless but had no way...
By: Light Within
A silent cry
2011-12-07 12:47:00 Sajini Chandrasekera I was happy through our marriage Everything was perfect and good With a son and a daughter Our world was complete Slowly time passed by And things began to change When...
By: Light Within
Code is Poetry, CSS is Art
2011-11-24 01:02:00 We want to help your websites come alive with beautiful design. The WordPress.com theme team has been adding new themes at a dazzling rate, but did you know you can customize the style of any of our themes using the Custom Design upgrade? CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets which are styles that define how to display HTML elements. You can do anything from changing font colors to styling an entire site from scratch using CSS. Not only does the Custom Design upgrade let you choose from 50+ custom fonts in the Fonts tab, it includes a CSS editor where you can save style rules after purchasing the upgrade or preview changes before buying. Whether you are a design expert of amazing talent proportions or you are just learning the ways you can bend websites to your will, we think you’ll love making your WordPress.com sites even more beautiful with custom CSS. Beginners can start with the CSS Basics help page. Everyone is always welcome to share some CSS love in the WordPress.com...
HBO?s A Child?s Garden of Poetry (Giveaway)
2011-11-13 16:30:00 A Child’s Garden of Poetry is absolutely lovely! The new video from HBO and The Poetry Foundation uses art, words, and passionate children to bring to life the world of poetry! The artistry used in creating the whole experience captures the beauty of poetry, the children in the video are engaging and delightful (my favourite ...
By: An Island Life
Winners of the Alabama State Poetry Society David Kato Prize for Poems abou
2011-11-03 21:03:00 The Alabama State Poetry Society offers a twice-yearly contest with a variety of themed prizes sponsored by different individuals and poetry organizations. For the Fall 2011 award series, I sponsored the David Kato Prize for poems about the human rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people. (Prizes: $50, $30, $20, plus HM's at judge's discretion.) The award honors a Ugandan gay activist who was murdered this year. With the permission of the authors and the ASPS, I am pleased to publish the winners below. First Prize: what more is there to say by Barry Marks oh mama mama oh god mama how can i not believe believe you made me what i am you and papa god papa what do i say what do i say when i say who i am who am i to question you mama when you say i should not i should not fit myself into another self it is not enough that a self is warm is loving is wanting my self the self you made the way i am the way you are you must be as i must be who is anyone to say to say th...
By: Reiter's Block
Invocation of a Dragon
2011-07-09 21:21:00 I call you forthFrom the long shadows of mythLord of TerrorLord of FlameLord of All, forthwith I write your namesConstruct you from ink and mindMade…
Child Protectrice, Beth Rude, The Goddess Sathya Sai Baba Forgot
2011-06-28 01:50:00 Beth Rude. By Barry Pittard. 2011. I wonder if you ever knew That sweet old lady they call Beth Rude With her steady gaze and a cutting phrase Did she ever gaze at you? Was she ever rude to you? But she's never rude to kiddies, who Come racing up to her And even kids who are the wildest With her become quieter And the kids who are the timidest Learn to build their fire from her ......................
?Rock Spiders? and Sexual Abuse of the Young
2011-06-17 13:07:00 Little Fly. By Barry Pittard She was 9, and she knew nothing 'Little fly,' 'Little fly' he called her As she writhed in his spider toils As kind Uncle with his charm enthralled her
Sorcery
2011-06-13 15:28:00 I found this while looking for some other writing of mine. Escape.Where am I running to today? What twisted alternate set of problems can I devise to replace my own…
WORLD DON?T ALWAYS CELEBRATE DEATH TOO LATE
2011-05-20 08:32:00 1 Osama Bin Laden is dead Why dead? Life is so much better than death Killing and history of killing and death has not brought any luck to this world yet and it won?t I mean luck to the entire world – the poor the middle class and the healthy deserving rich 2 Today, Osama Bin Laden is dead Sad history doesn?t change ...
By: Radenko Fanuka
A Green Line Ditty: poetry in motion
2011-05-04 13:17:00 I wish the people knew they as elevated as the trains be, higher than that really. On the ground chasing green flippin green smoking green. Im on that Green moving toward sumthin better. I know im elevated. Sunday at 8:59am via Mobile Web · · ·...
Sathya Sai Baba ? The Man Who Would Be ?King of Kings?
2011-04-27 01:30:00 From November 1975, continuing until October 1999, I was inspired by a series of remarkable situations to become a devotee of a Sathya Sai Baba. In early 1978, he asked me to teach at his college at Whitefield, via Bangalore,South India. My words below suggest a little of the intense nature of that connection and what became of it twenty-five years later, as evidence counter to my assumptions, and from the testimony of many credible witnesses from of countries around the world, and then large documentation of his many failed predictions and promises of healing, became ever more compelling. A song can sometimes be a better vehicle of such deep experiences and ideals than many prosaic explanations. Should any former devotees, or others, relate to the content, I shall be happy, once they have clearly identified themselves, to send the music, which, though original, is redolent of a long British Isles folk tradition.
How Would You Like Your World Today? - Poetry Book Debuts
2011-04-04 23:38:00 Over the years I have written about manships - expressions, thoughts and sentiments about men who have stirred my heart and awakened my muse. The title poem was written for my father and uncle as I was searching for a Christmas gift. A tie just wouldn't do. I wondered if I could give them a world, even for just a day, what would be in it. What wonderful experience might bear repeating. A highlight of the book is, An Ode To Black Women. This is a book to celebrate love and loving in its full measure. The 100 page book features poems and high end vogue like photography of beautiful and exotic women. This is a...
How Would You Like Your World Today? - Poetry Book Debuts
2011-04-04 23:28:00 Over the years I have written about manships - expressions, thoughts and sentiments about men who have stirred my heart and awakened my muse.The title poem was written for my father and uncle as I was searching for a Christmas gift. A tie just wouldn't do. I wondered if I could give them a world, even for just a day, what would be init. What wonderful experience might bear repeating. This is a book to celebrate love and loving in its full measure. The 100 page book features poems and high end vogue like photography of beautiful and exotic women. This is a treasurer. I welcome your comments. The book is available online at http://www.ndigo.com/onli-neorderpoetrybook.asp...
TECHNOLOGY, WHO ARE YOU?
2011-03-31 04:24:00 Technology, you are not the night And you are not the day You are not a Mother or a Father You are not the four seasons of the year You are not Nature Technology, you cannot feed Nature With a fork and a spoon And spring with skim milk Before Nature feeds you Technology, you grew fast just like a mushroom But, how long will ...
By: Radenko Fanuka
The Secret Colour of Crows
2011-03-16 01:51:00 For Jolie!The Secret Colour of CrowsA wing shapes across a skyBlack as nightObscuring dayFeathers spanning while light leaks throughSparkling sunlightFlying closerSunlight sparkles on…
Joop Wolters: False Poetry - energy and passion!!!
2011-02-03 22:11:00 SUMMERY Phew!!!! that was some ride ,, real music takes you one a journey that twists and turns brings you up and down , tense and release. This is real music. Joop holds nothing back on this album , the energy and passion that comes though in the solo's is of the highest professional standard and so you would expect from a career spanning such diversity and LA rock session guitar background. This album delivers and delivers it hard , load of tone lods of great ampage can be heard in the cleverly master live tracks like old school style and modern style playing . Joop stands up to the whole of the worlds guitarisyts without breaking a sweat, buy this album , support this musician , he has a great personality as well clever technical and well constructed guitar virtuosity , buy this and you wont be dissapointed ....I wouldnt lie full review | buy
Joop Wolters,Rick Graham,Vivien Lalu: False Poetry CD - full details and s
2011-01-10 19:03:00 Joop Wolters New CD False Poetry: buy tracklist sponge 7:28 saviour 3:38 ozric dream 6:58 rage of 10 7:25 drowned 3:32 renegade robots 5:02 mi corazon 2:52 lost 5:26 counterclockwise 3:40 universal doubt 7:55 extra track 11. a way home 4.23 FALSE POETRY-JOOP WOLTERS preview new album.. album info: all compositions, production and instruments by Joop Wolters Joop Wolters:( compositions, all guitars, basses, synth and synthguitars,drumcomposition/pr-ogramming, arrangements and production) song written and recorded between 2007/2010 all parts recorded and mixed in studio "heaven's touch" weert drums Patrick recorded in budel and gelderop drums Atma recorded in poland.. used gear: guitars and basses: Bo-el, yamaha, fender, Ibanez, Cort amps: Laney tt-50h, engl powerball 2, egnater renegade 65 h, pod x3 Roland gr-20 guitarsynth module, korg wavestation.. guests: drums: Patrick Eijdems drums on tracks (1,2,3,5,6,7) Atma Anur drums on tracks (4,8,10)guest so...
Joop Wolters: False Poetry - NEW CD available now!
2011-01-09 21:51:00 http://jwguitar.blogspot.com/20-11/01/... thank you for ordering the cd ,appreciate it!! cheers and thanx for the support..joop.. NEW ALBUM OUT NOW-FALSE POETRY by JOOP WOLTERS
Burning Bright
2011-01-06 17:01:00 Here's to you, William Blake! Under a moon of iceAnd a sky sparkling with frostShadows cross himMerge with himLet his eyes burn through themAt first he…
I Ask the Impossible
2011-01-03 17:40:00 I ask the impossible: love me forever. Love me when all desire is gone. Love me with the single-mindedness of a monk. When the world in its entirety, and all that you hold sacred, advise...
By: Light Within
Merry Sportsmas: Why the Bears are pure poetry
2010-12-21 19:30:00 By Chris SosaRedEyeGood news: If you picked yours truly in your "Which columnist will parody 'The Night Before Christmas'?" pool, go ahead and collect your winnings. I consider such an homage to be the fruitcake of sportswriting: At first you might not think you can stand any more, but somehow you can't enjoy the holidays without it. And there's more good news--this version is not nearly as long as the original. Bon appetit....
IceHogs' Alec Richards and Hannu Toivonen Read Poetry to Each Other?
2010-11-23 23:19:00 Last night, myself and Matt Prefontaine co-hosted "Hog Talk" at Swilligans Pub in Rockford. On the show we had IceHog's GM, Mark Bernard, forward Brandon Bollig, and goalie Alec Richards.Brandon Bollig spoke of his back up dream as a Hollywood actor. We also learned his passion for recycling aluminum. Alec Richards, who says he's the weirdest guy on the team, shared his ways of relaxing with goalie buddy Hannu Toivonen. You be the judge of what is sarcasm. We couldn't tell. Mark Bernard was the only normal interview, but nothing is normal, here on Hog Talk! Take a listen here. My co-hosted put together the show on his blog, The Man Advantage. ...
Thomas Youngblood: Poetry For The Poisoned Bonus DVD
2010-10-29 10:23:00 A live video from "Poetry For The Poisoned" Bonus DVD featured on the Deluxe Edition of the album. The DVD also features videoclip, pick & play, interview with the band in the studio. Kamelot "Hunter's Season" (official live video from "Poetry For The Poisoned Bonus DVD)
Folk Tales of Pakistan: Mirza-Sahiban
2010-10-27 05:16:00 Mast Qalandar In an earlier post on Sohni Mahiwal I had said folklore was a mixture of beliefs, facts and fiction and that it was always a poet who immortalized a love story. But, it is also true that a poet chose to sing a particular story, and not the other, because of its inherent ...
Dedicated to every child and every spring
2010-10-25 03:19:00 I was a little boy I was spring I bloomed like spring I ?teared? like spring I blossomed like spring I smelled like spring I grew like spring I was a little boy I was spring *** I was a young man I was summer I thought like summer I was ?hot? like summer I worked like summer I perspired like summer I ?dried? like summer I grew like summer I was ...
By: Radenko Fanuka
Long Dreams Walking Over the Bridges
2010-10-25 03:18:00 In my dream, God was with me Last night I fell asleep And I was walking over a bridge A bridge between night and day And following Nature, small ants and grass hoppers Waiting for the day, the night disappeared *** God was with me Today I woke up walking over the bridge A bridge between day and night Following Nature, small ants and ...
By: Radenko Fanuka
Legit 'Poetry Club IV (Jaundice Pt. 2)' leads new music update
2010-09-23 22:35:00 Also f/ Pharrell, Lil' Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and more!
Chicago Poetry Tour
2010-07-19 16:53:00 A new podcast from the Poetry Foundation blends history and poetry.
June 19- Elude the Marketplace: Art, Music and Poetry from Chicago's u
2010-06-15 03:09:00 This weekend why not switch up your usual weekend routine, and come to Elude the Marketplace: Episode II "If They Can't Sell Us They'll Get to Know Us Real Well", a music and art show put on by upcoming Chicago artists and students. The product of networking among Chicago's most creative circles, the event will showcase the work of several musicians, poets, and visual artists who are some of Chicago's most exciting up and comers.
Chained Emotions !!
2010-03-11 10:58:00 Gone are the years, Gone are the days, Gone are the opportunities, Then why do I still feel the pain !! Times have changed, I've grown in the world of uncertainity, You've grown into a world... To Know More Read the Full Article !!
By: Doc Doc Doc.....
Love is in the Air- Judy Valente Shows Old Town through Poetry
2010-02-08 02:39:00 The cold weather didn't stop anyone from attending the monthly Tea and Poetry event at Immaculate Conception Church last evening.With over 30 people in attendance, these non locals and locals of the Old Town area come together once a month to enjoy poetry as they sip on some champagne and eat tasty hor dourves. Judy Valente and Albert DeGenova shared their own poems to audience with a focus on love. Judy Valente (on the left), stands with friends and fans of her poetry. ...
Jane Sawyers- Upcoming Poetry Reading
2010-02-07 16:27:00 Even the poets who share their work with the Old Town neighborhood is a tight knit community. Fellow poet, Jane Sawyers, has been a friend of Judy Valente for 12 years. Although Sawyers is not a parishoner at Immaculate Conception, she has been asked to do a poetry reading as well next month....
Sorry !!
2010-01-17 10:17:00 To Err is Human, to love is also human. Every time u muttered those never ending statements, i became deaf. Every time u rose with excitement after seeing, i never saw it. Every time u... To Know More Read the Full Article !!
By: Doc Doc Doc.....
1971: Hum kay thehray ajnabi?
2009-12-17 05:30:00 Adil Najam As the fourth and final part of our series on the events of 1971, we are reposting this post which was first published at ATP on December 16, 2006. We are reposting it with all the original comments since they, as a whole, are very much part of the conversation we all need to ...
Using Walt Whitman's Poetry To Sell Jeans
2009-10-28 23:23:00 For some reason, this bothers me more than it does hearing a Beatles tune selling a computer or a Rolling Stones song selling a fancy car. What about you?
THE END - The 30th September Song (poetry series for hunger)
2009-09-30 07:00:00 (Artwork by Marcin Bondarowicz) I think today is the end of all things conventional, Whatever had been predictable yesterday, is no more. Forks and spoons are too rusted to use, Jutting out of us like some perished nightmare. Dining room tables are being used for makeshift mausoleums, (Leave the dead, don’t waste precious energy.) Electricity went out this morning, water this afternoon. It reaches everywhere; the world reeks of a decomposing. There’s a deafening silence ticking down like a giant clock; Nothing can be heard, save the monstrous, shrieking echo of silence That swims over our heads like crop-dusters spitting flesh. We are so goddamn frightened! Is this the end of the world? Has our greed and apathy finally made its way back to us? Have our closed hands and open mouths at last climbed inside our minds? Where are all the loud children skipping home from school? What day is this? What time is it? What has happened? At night there will be fireflies and the moon t...
13th Poetry Africa International Poetry Festival 2009, Durban, South Africa
2009-09-19 21:46:00 More than twenty poets, predominantly from South Africa and elsewhere on the African continent, will participate in the 13th Poetry Africa international poetry festival in Durban from 5 to 10 October... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Cat Piano. Poetry and animation combined.
2009-09-16 18:41:00 The Cat Piano from PRA on Vimeo. The Awesomer masukin film pendek ini ke dalam listnya, jadi, yah, it?s awesome :DNotable links - Lumayan buat nambah ilmu :)The Cat Piano official website - http://catpianofilm.com/The Cat Piano, atau Katzenklavier, itu beneran ada. Check these out: http://www.impactlab.com/2006/0-2/21/the-cat-piano/ dan seperti biasa Wikipedia sangat membantu ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka-tzenklavier
I dedicate this to the youth of the world
2009-09-12 18:08:00 1 They called me poor. I was not poor. I lacked food and clothing I did not have money; I was not poor My heart was rich, rich, the same as the heart of the rich Poor, are beautiful people Same as the rich, with a rich heart. 2 They called me poor with their big sorrow those who were poor in their hearts those ...
By: Radenko Fanuka
A/C: Chicago's Poetry Renaissance, The Moth Flies to Chicago, Chicago
2009-09-10 16:00:00 Red Moon Theater Photograph by Eric Bartholomew. Is the Chicago poetry scene experiencing a new renaissance? Kent Johnson thinks so. And Samizdat has commentary about the New Chicago School.The Moth has just announced it is expanding from New York and L.A. and starting a regular StorySLAM in Chicago. The first event will be held at Martyrs' on Septermber 29 and will be hosted by Dan Kennedy from The Moth Radio Hour.Veronica Bond has a complete look at the Chicago issue of Granta.Exterior restoration of IIT's Carr Chapel, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's only ecclesiastical building, is complete.Today is the last day to review -- and maybe vote for -- Chicago's Freshest Film: The Substitute.The Complete Review collects reviews of Summertime by J.M. Coetzee, which has...
"Swallow" Poetry Chapbook by Jendi Reiter Now Available from Amsterdam Pres
2009-09-02 23:14:00 My poetry chapbook Swallow won the 2008 Flip Kelly Poetry Prize from Amsterdam Press and is now available for purchase online. Thanks are due to my awesome editor, Cindy Kelly; poet Ellen LaFleche, who helped me organize the collection and suggested the title; and my prison pen pal "Conway" who drew the amazing cover art. "Jendi Reiter's poems are arrows that plunge dead center into the hearts of feminism, religion, death, the interior of mental health and psychotherapy. Her humor and satire here are as sharply honed as are her indignation. All are delivered in highly imaginative and metaphoric imagery. This is an intelligent and powerful read that will leave issues bleeding in the minds of readers for a while before they heal." ?Ellaraine Lockie, award-winning poet, nonfiction author, educator "There's plenty of poetry I wouldn't give a fig for, but I'd give strawberries for the poems in Jendi Reiter's SWALLOW. When I started in Poetry in 1962, I felt poems were only p...
By: Reiter's Block
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