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Reading Poems Out Loud with John–Emily Dickinson Edition
Friend and Fellow blogger John Nooney at Poetically Versed has started a feature that I hope will catch on. If you’ve been following my rantings here on the Dad Poet for any length of time you already know how important I think it is to read poetry out loud. I mean, if it were not,…
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Of Rejections and Successes
There is so much I’d like to post about today, since I had been mostly absent of late. But before I get carried away talking about what and whom I’ve been reading, here’s a bit of an update, as promised, regarding what I myself have been writing. Well, I’ve been writing a lot of things,…
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After Long Business, I’m back.
Behold, faithful followers, I have returned after more or less a month of hiatus-ness. National Poetry Month in April always spurs me on to the writing of more of my own poems, but this year it has also spurred me on to the first serious, extended submission campaign of my life. I mean, I have…
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Astropoetica: Why, Sky?, by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
See on Scoop.it – Poetry On the Sidewalk Combining poetry, science, stargazing, people-gazing, looking outward, and looking inward, Astropoetica is quickly becoming one of my favorite new poetry journals. See on www.astropoetica.com
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Trillium by Jeremy Nathan Marks
Originally posted on The Blue Hour: The rain is ending and with everything soaked the wind turns light wrung out fit now for flight At dawn our curtains quiver And through every bird we begin our hearing of a whirl, a roar a sprouting once more of mud flecked Skunk Cabbages Their dirt tickling crown…
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What Comes After Sweet 16?
And no, there is no punch line here. I just wanted to send out a very happy birthday to my youngest boy, The Monkey Prodigy. Today he turns 17. I am really not sure how that happened. I think he was no older than nine just yesterday. And now he’s getting into jazz he says. Very cool.…
