Beginning a career in writing is no easy task. It starts with the inspiration that comes from a fiery passion burning in your heart. However, many find that fiery desire sizzling out when they discover how difficult it is to be published and seen on social media. Any aspiring Author who has done their research […]
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The Curious Case of the Evolving #Writerslift — Voyage of the Mind
Tracing the #writerslift from its original roots through its curious evolution. A discussion of the six types of #writerslift in the Twitterverse today.
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Sensory Memory — MosaicsOfBlue
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, taking origin from emotions recollected in tranquility. -William Wordsworth Ink pens. Something about rainy days like today make me think of ink pens. Ink pens and obviously, school. Just a few days before school re-opened, there would be a visit to the stationery shop. It was a […]
Cat’s Eye & some other Atwoods condensed — Reviewing Every Book on My Shelves
I know I said I’d review every book on the shelves, but then my first 7 posts would be all Margaret Atwood. And as much as I love her, that’s not how I want to begin. I really do love Margaret Atwood. I discovered her when I was about 19 or 20 and fell in […]
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Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson — Churchly Piety
Clingham, Greg. The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Samuel Johnson wasn’t just a writer. He was a force of nature. You have to reckon with him, as is perhaps evident in that many writers in this volume have a “feminist” or “post-colonialist” bent to them. Despite (or because of) […]
A beginner’s guide to reading and enjoying poetry — Reading Room
Andrew McMillan, Manchester Metropolitan University One of the things you get asked most when people find out that you’re a poet is whether you can recommend something that could be read at an upcoming wedding, or if you know something that might be suitable for a funeral. For most people, these occasions – as well […]
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6 Thoughts on Reviewing Poetry + tips & where to submit reviews – guest blog post by Alina Stefanescu — Trish Hopkinson
1. I come to reviewing as a reader, a simple lover of books. For many years, I believed that loving a book was not reason enough to review it. I believed that one needed special degrees in judgement in order to be able to speak of books with the detachment and “objectivity” they deserved. Although […]
CALELendar a poem, by Melissa Chaconas
branch out on words
pivot the approach he prophecy
relentlessly the part
dreamed old- piece of night
that transformations between me
first word- last love
intricately organic beyond
reason strange
benediction lesson
mailbox wrath welcome letter picnic
father instructions
confidential hemorrhage
signal child
to
economist’s old clothes
mask of supper
daughter bring
mean careless love
quality between
this questioned
world
silence your science green gods.
flowers fall grimmer grammer in
house- railed- un-withered
the approach to
upstairs
-the thief
of end- when will it end?
goose eat- what eat goose?
&
dragonfly- ?
lamplight covers
scourged head down
hermetic
reader
writer
down
in class
summing up meditation
a testing spark
journal old cracked curtain (belongs to someone else)
to portrait
the illumination of dynasty
w/ red breasted robin
road of summer river solstice
build report gladiator of the system
around 3 floors- flights to the king cleoparta
tree-please teach Dante
layeREd knots unknown nights
catch cage- portents contents fire-sticks
Lincoln’s death
quarrel w/ six
sisters
route the unquiet ones
layer snakes of
September
image maker
make we
abduction to 1914
foreboding my
poet rounds
ill pass on the
boat
whale through
chariot rides
to the house
of mother’s
pearls
comet
autumn
comes
commit on
lamentation-
the sea
touch me
never
begin
w/
beethoven
expected
music-
not to you
but it acts
of old photos retouched
signed great
us-
Turning the wheel, by Melissa Chaconas
we are close our car doors
in anger
we shop in frustrations
we give up hope all the time
we remember in primordial love
We run around in
costumes, masks,
we are stuck
we walk hard
we clean hard
to make the pain
disappear
dwell in a
place
in the bottom.
I pull down the mountain, by Melissa Chaconas
I pull down the mountain with my hands
I stare at the page
Clouds float thri=ough fast
And I try ti scranbke down electronically the WORDS
With one hand while thee other holds my body and muse separate but together
Who will fall from above higher learning?
on stones to the garden AND
Lay me down open the flower that has rough petals
That droop and sting as hot as lava
Scratch with nails at the wood cardboard like thin sheets that block the climb-through
That led to the rusty monkey bars where I first tied to speak poetry to non-listeners….
Ivy n word old loneness’ filled my heart with ferment fulfillment was it foul ? but other girls n boys
Didn’t like it there
And sometimes before the sun would set I would feel the on-lookers stare N wonder again
Since my birth
repeatedly
Are they a poet or just an other bore!~
I want to take this poem to the grocery store and speak to it by the veggies
And be a commercial-photo op for people to SPEAK to children
But the Stanley & Sylvia, Stephen, Zbigniew and Lowell and Bhagavad-Gita
Won’t show up with billboards or push-in pins with signs as pens
Not for the coke-head/heroin accident of my day that recites 1960’s work
And shakes like a snake in the alley.. “umm…yeah like yeah”
U can twist the reachin into vibrations of the
The voice maybe
But the printed holds more truth than drama from an non-actor/actress
I want to call
I want to nestle the breast of cookies n milk
Until you scream im gay sometimes but always
Or should I write a poem for u everyday
Because you don’t SPEAK to others but bu but but
This silly Greek girl knows you
The Latino needs curry-chicken he thinks from a goddess but not
Dad u sold the house of my childhood to liars
I don’t want to work for the government
I want to be like aunt penny’s baby’s daddy
And go live in California work at a library on Sundays
Do idle work for money
Live in a house that gypsy n I write so our minds diont blow
The body follows happiness
I once was a happy body-able mind too
When I was following it
Will you still accept your daughter when she doesn’t talk?
Verbally
But
just publishes work/play/love to little birds who carry or are messages from the others
if I go— will I turn-off my cord
unplug my comfort n
dance when hungry





