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		<title>Line in Time: Word for Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This week starts Tuesday evening with the Word-4-Word Poets at Aromas Coffeehouse in Newpoet News. Then Thursday evening the Kinship of Authors features Dr Natalia Roberston speaking about her book The Slave Ship Clotilda at the Hampton Library.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Billy Boom Train – Wins the Gold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Chesapeake resident Brian Batts has won a gold Parents Choice Award for the Fall of 2009. Brian's illustrated children's book with audio also has been highly praised by readers on Amazon.com. He wrote the story and composed the music for the book. Charles Long of Norfolk illustrated the book.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Fence Things Going On</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fence is not locally based, but I think it&#8217;s a good literary review for new poets to check out. I like its contemporary flare and occasional edge. Plus, how can I not tell you about a the issue with Rainer Maria Rilke in it?
 From Fence Books:  Pretty soon a new issue of Fence [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>This American Life challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb Markham</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t listen to This American Life on 89.5, you should. And, beyond its great storytelling, I&#8217;ll give you another reason to listen: A writing
challenge.
The Challenge: Listen to this week&#8217;s This America Life and then write a poem, flash fiction story (less than 500 words) or piece of 2D art (sketch, pen &#38; ink, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>TReehouse: You are what you eat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From Tom Robotham of TReehouse magazine, which is a locally-based online publication&#8230;. 
Please take a look at Angela Blue&#8217;s new piece on TReehouse&#8211;You Are What You Eat. I still eat meat of all kinds, but often feel like a hypocrite because I don&#8217;t know whether I could kill a mammal for food. Could you? If [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>ALP: Like Coins, November</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006
I love poems in which the central metaphors are fresh and original, and here’s a marvelous, coiny description of autumn by Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, who lives in Illinois.
Like Coins, November
We drove past late fall fields as flat and cold
as sheets of tin and, in the distance, trees
were tossed [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Poetry: 2 June</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[W. W. Yoder, III of Chesapeake VA shares the experience of a June day turn night after hours stuck inside during choir practice. Although the author doubts the sense of practicing indoors, he finds solace in the evening.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>We have a new submissions process!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You now can easily submit your work to us by sending an email via Posterous.com.
Here are the steps:
1. Open up a new email.
2. Create at title and compose the body just as you would like to see it published on our site. Please include your name and city of residence somewhere in the body. If [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Muse News: Comic Book Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Comic Book Writing




























































Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., a 6 week session beginning November 18
Only 5 seats remain. Visit www.the-muse.org/workshops.html or call 818-9880 to register.
Graphic novels, manga and comic books have become a major sector in the field of literature and a principal source of inspiration for other media. T Campbell presents a set of exercises designed to familiarize [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Line in Time: Local poetry this week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Freas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Greetings Y&#8217;all Poets, Bards n Troubadours.Saturday Jack Callan had a triumphal overtime reading from his new book &#8220;Knucklehead Poems&#8221; at Iris Art Studio in Poquoson. If you weren&#8217;t there, you MISSED it BIG TIME.
This weekend 5 of us from PSV were privileged to hob-knob with countless English and Language Arts teachers from across Virginia attending [...]]]></content:encoded>
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