Tag: poets
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Cross Keys Poetry Update, Art in the Garden
A lovely evening with artists and writers in the Library Garden.
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You Don’t Even Like Poetry, or Do You?
This Week in Poetry, Even for Non-Poets I am truly tickled to see so much being written about poetry during this (inter)National Poetry Month to an audience outside the traditional poetry scene. Often people who claim to dislike poetry merely had a bad experience, likely in high school, as Billy Collins likes to say “the place…
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National Poetry Month Readings
Well, I said I’d try, right? And if you don’t remember what I said last time, or don’t know what I mean, it’s just as well. Remember how I said I hate to apologize about not posting when I could be posting? So how goes National Poetry Month in your neighborhood? It’s now becoming international…
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Eating and Drinking on St. Patrick’s Day
And with that title I suppose we need no further explanation. The Poetry Foundation has a full page up to celebrate today’s date. Whatever persuasion you are, and whether or not you feel there is anything to celebrate, I suspect that you would not turn down a drink and some hearty food on your plate. Not…
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Poems and Reflections on MLK Day
Granted, the day is now over in most of the U.S., but let’s not rush things for once, okay? Huffington Post was ahead of the game and posted its Three Poems for Martin Luther King Day back on Friday, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth talking about after some reflection, right? But that’s the…
