Sanctified is the world’s first poetry anthology featuring works exclusively by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans Christians. The final product is a beautiful tome featuring poetry by thirty-three poets, whose pieces range from haunting to bittersweet to deeply inspirational.
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A collection of stories and poems, created by members of the Published Authors Forum on the world wide web, reflecting the bond of friendship between writers from all over the world. Forever Friends is a celebration of the power of friendship and human relationships.
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Poetry Flash Presents The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. An anthology reading with the editor, Francisco Aragón, and contributing poets Venessa Fuentes, Adela Najarro, Paul Martínez Pompa, and John Olivares Espinoza.
This reading celebrates The Wind Shifts, the anthology edited by Francisco Aragón with a Foreword by Juan Felipe Herrera, and published by the University of Arizona Press.
Paul Martínez Pompa’s first full-length book of poems, While Late Capitalism, was selected by Martín Espada as winner of the 2008 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and will be published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2009; he is a former editor of Indiana Review.
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Heres a virtual movie of the American poet, biographer, and dramatist Edgar Lee Masters reading the poem “Fiddler Jones” from his best known anthology of poems “Spoon River Anthology”.
This exquisite whimsical poem asserts that it is the happy memories we make that are realy more important than the money we make in our lives. The first line of the poem refers to the rhythym of the heart, and that you yourself are contained in it, and that when you find your passion, your talent, that is what you must commit yourself to, for all your life. One man will look at the field and see a ready harvest and dollar signs. Fiddler Jones would look at it and see a beautiful passage, beyond which lies the river where he would lie and fiddle days away. Later, in the fall, when the wind sends the corn rustling, the first man hears the rattle of change, for this means it is time to harvest and send the cows to be butchered, which means money in his pocket. Fiddler, on the other hand, is simply reminded of the sound made when the girls dance to his music, the way their skirts swish and rustle. Similarly, to one man, a dry, dusty climate means trouble for his crops and causes him worry, but Fiddler just sees is as a reason to party. How could he work his land, much less worry about obtaining *more* land, which would mean *more* work, when everything around him reminds him of his music, his dancing? Furthermore, during the times he did start to work, someone would come and request him to fiddle at a party, and being a man who knows his values, he’d put down his plow and pick up his fiddle. He didn’t die rich, but he died happy.
Spoon River Anthology (1915), by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters’ home town. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing two-hundred forty-four accounts of their lives and losses.
Edgar Lee Masters (Garnett, Kansas, August 23, 1868 – Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, March 5, 1950) was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
Kind Regards
Jim Clark
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Fiddler Jones……
The earth keeps some vibration going
There in your heart, and that is you.
And if the people find you can fiddle,
Why, fiddle you must and for all your life.
What do you see, a harvest ofclover?
Or a meadow to awlk through to the river?
The wind’s in the corn; you rub your hands
for beeves hereafter ready for market;
Or else you hear the rustle of skirts
Like the girls when dancing at Little Grove.
To Cooney Potter a pillar of dust
Or whirling leaves meant ruinous drouth;
They looked to me like Red-Head Sammy
Stepping it off, to “Toor-a-Loor.”
How could I till my forty acres
Not to speak of getting more,
With a medley of horns, bassoons and piccolos
Stirred in my brain by crows androbins
And the creak of a wind-mill—only these?
And I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And tkae me away to a dance or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle—
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories.
And not a single regret.
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What will happen to your work and your legacy if you become a successful poet? Anthologies for the classroom, The Lyric Potential, TS Eliot, and annoying questions for the classroom. Preludes. Advice on the Pobizz from Sidney Shemel.
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T.M. Göttl was a featured poet during Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest – a Lix and Kix production held on 16 January 2010 at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, Pennsylvania. Amateur video by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis.
T.M. Göttl, a member of the Buffalo ZEF creative community, won first place the first time she competed in a poetry slam, and shes been heard on 91.3 WAPS and 89.7 WOSU radio. Her work has appeared online and in print, in publications such as Pudding Magazine, Verse Wisconsin, Common Threads, The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology, Opium Press, The Poets Haven, and others. Her first full-length collection, Stretching the Window, was published in 2008.
Find T.M. Göttl at http://www.buffalozef.net/artists/tmgottl/
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Very clever poem named ‘Lost Generation’ by Jonathan Reed.
Enjoy!
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Poet Patricia Smith appears at the National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Patricia Smith’s fifth book of poetry, “Blood Dazzler” chronicles the human, physical and emotional toll exacted by Hurricane Katrina, a catastrophic natural event with lasting spiritual and political impact. It was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award. This volume is also the focal point of a new dance-theater collaboration between Smith and Urban Bush Women dancer Paloma McGregor. Smith is also the author of “Teahouse of the Almighty” (2006), a National Poetry Series winner, the Best Poetry Book of 2006 on About.com and a 2007 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Paterson Poetry Prize winner; “Close to Death” (1998), “Big Towns, Big Talk” (2002) and “Life According to Motown” (1991). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, poemmemoirstory, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, the Chautauqua Literary Journal, TriQuarterly and other journals, and in many anthologies, most recently Gathering Ground, The Spoken Word Revolution, The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry and Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry. Her poem “The Way Pilots Walk” received a Pushcart Prize, and is featured in Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses.
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