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Not Another Boring Poetry Reading
No, it never ever has to be a boring reading, but I swear there are so many people, memories of school days in their heads, who cringe at the idea of listening to a poetry reading. As a reaction to that we have Spoken Word movements and poetry slams (I’ll post one or two of…
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Poetry Under the Paintings with Annn Keeler Evans
I’ve told you about the little gathering of local poets and poetry enthusiasts that have been meeting on first Thursdays since May. We call it Poetry Under the Paintings, and it’s held at Faustina’s Gallery in Lewisburg. The first one you can read about here, and the June edition, here. The July gathering was every…
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Upcoming Readings and Cedar Waxwings
This is one of those hodge podge posts with odds and ends and ends and odds. It’s a rare day that the restaurant is closed and I get to have the day to myself. Happy fourth to those who celebrate it. I am not sure we understand that much about the holiday anymore here in…
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Poetry Readings and Kitty Cat Heaven
This morning I had the pleasure of reading some of my poems at the Joseph Priestley Memorial Chapel in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. The first Sunday of each month the local Unitarian Universalist church holds a service of music and the spoken word, and I was honored to be asked to participate, as well as to read…
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London Got Bombed at Dusk–by Poetry
See on Scoop.it – Poetry On the Sidewalk London was bombed last night, by helicopter, right along the south bank of the Thames. Nobody was hurt, thank heaven, or thank the muses, because it was not explosives, but poems that rained down on the city. Read the whole story in the attached article from the…
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Commas Are Our Friends, and the Difference between With and By
I was talking on my facebook status the other day about how, at least in informal conversation, we seem to be dropping the commas that used to set off a person’s name when he or she is addressed. For instance, Bob, why don’t you use commas like you once did? On Facebook commas for this purpose…
