tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72963943835549040912026-02-16T06:29:15.369-05:00poetry. reviews. daily stuff.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296394383554904091.post-88143900627678463282009-07-03T22:46:00.001-04:002009-07-03T22:46:48.255-04:00

From the rooftops of Iran to the world, 3 July 2009.

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Video of Palin being interviewed for accusations of abuse of power.

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If you haven't heard...the Best American Poetry Blog brings poems, commentary, responses and all manner of poetry conversation to the internet. I've only briefly scanned a page to find Maxine Kumin' poem and Jenny Factor's comment on the Antioch Residency... notes and a poem resulting from Richard Garcia's lecture in particular, which I missed.Find the blog by clicking this link.

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I celebrate all the creatures that have come under my care, filled me with their joyful spirit and then passed on. In the last two years, the list has increased to an unfortunate number.Haiku is the most recent loss. He was my birthday gift seven years ago, purchased at Jim's Pet Depot and hand-selected because of his ebullient, sociable nature.A week before Haiku died, I found the seven

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My darling yellow-faced parakeet Haiku, died on May 30, a week after first taking him to the vet.His death came after weeks of struggling for breath, and on the same morning he awoke drenched in some wetness, and called feebly to his partner, Tanka. It came after a series of gran mal seizures, while I held his twisting form. It came from the liquid injected into his chest by that same vet,

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30 The Clinging, Fire Guiding, Directing (an Ideology) From guidance comes directionToday's I Ching fling swing with added interpretation: "LI : glowing light, spreading in all directions; light-giving, discriminating, articulating; divide and arrange in order; the power of consciousness. The ideogram: bird and weird, the magical fire-bird with brilliant plumage."From guidance comes

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CLICK -- FOX News -- dangerous bigotry or just pure idiocy?

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So here I am heading into the final semester of the MFA program, accomplishment in sight, and wondering: what of it?Sour and disenchanted and discouraged are all the immediate sensations that arise. My student loan debt will be well over $50,000, nearing $60,000. That's more than the price of my home when purchased 22 years ago.Flying, boarding, eating, and fueling costs affiliated with a low

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This is the day that forbids reproduction. Mother's Day, May 11, 1991, I arrived at my mother's home with a card and Crimson Glory, a vibrant bush of red roses. She had the hand, the one that touches those temperamental flowers - violets and roses - and brings them to bloom.Then the hollow, the dread, the emptiness of silence, the open door, the tools on the table, the machine still running, the

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This morning my dwarf hamster, about the size of an engorged tulip, gave birth to a litter of pups! A fascinating voyeurship for me, gazing thru the glass of her aquarium home to see three pinkies with their bulbous, lidded eyes, their nub tails and their veiled viscera.A day later, I count five maybe six little squirming pups. When she leaves her tissue paper and cotton nest, they squeak like

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Letters to the World, the long-awaited poetry anthology published by Red Hen Press is now available.The anthology is a collection of poems and short essays from members of the WomPo (The Discussion of Women's Poetry) listserv, founded by Annie Finch. Members of the listserv, and anthology contributors, include over 500 hundred poets living in the U.S., Paris, Australia, Great Britain and other

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The populace of those three states have made their decision. We Need Hillary. Hillary Needs Us.CONTRIBUTE NOW!

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BLOSSOMBONES - "If you have a knockout piece about any topic you think relates to women's lives and experiences, by all means, send it!"LINE BREAK - a single poem by a single author for one week; audio version included.GOBLIN FRUIT - invites the fantasticalWILLOW - not new but notable; fiction, poetry, interviews, translationsRIGHT HAND POINTING - looks for economy of language - poems under 20

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The third issue of the Sylvan Echo, an online publication of several MFA grad students at Antioch University LA is now up.The Echo is maturing with content and by the looks of this issue should be around for as long as its editors maintain it.Hooray and keep it up!

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Surprising Juxtapositions and Surrealism AboundKoncel, Mary. You Can Tell the Horse Anything. 1st paperback ed. Dorset, VT: Tupelo Press, 2004.Appreciating Mary Koncel’s You Can Tell the Horse Anything needs a reader who is appreciative of the surreal.A first reading of the collection of 66 prose poems gives the reader a vague clue as to underlying motifs but leaves her adrift in attempts at “

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“Blank” – the unnamable, the unnamed, the secret, the absence, the fill-in-the-blank invitation and acknowledgement, the empty and the deliberately obscured; a refusal to name, literally and figuratively, personally and tangentially.“Blank” as substitute; enigma for meaning.“Blank” as the unformed, emerging conclusion.“Blank” as censure.“Blank” as the stopping point and the gateway; the

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Another reason Hillary Clinton gets my vote.

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