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The Muse in Cyberspace
As I was biking today, a squirrel ran across the road with a big nut in its mouth. Squirreling it away, I thought. Then I thought: sign of autumn. Then I thought: that means packing up for Tucson. Which means (I sighed to myself)....
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Barbies’ Communion
When I first heard of T.S. Poetry Press, I assumed that the T.S. was drawn from Eliot fame. But a visit to their website corrected my impression. Behind the Press’s founding was a game started by some inventive poets called “tweetspeak.” It’s a “Twitter poetry party,” a one-hour bash where everyone tweets a 140-character poem with the hashtag #tspoetry. A prompt is provided by @tspoetry. “You write a few lines of poetry in response to the prompt and then play off the other participants’ lines,” the rules say. So the TSP folks are poets who love fun....
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Inspector Clouseau and Poetic Play
Part of the delight of preparing my new course on Poetry as a Spiritual Practice for the Glen Online has been returning to some favorite interviews with poets in past issues of Image. I enjoy reading what contemporary poets have to say about their art almost as much as I enjoy reading their poems.I love, for instance, that Pattiann Rogers ....
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Balancing My Stuff
My husband and I are in a flurry of dealing with the “stuff” in our lives. Had to replace the old stove, then the broken couch. Then discovered that the old table lamps next to the old couch were too low for the higher replacement couch...so off we went to shop for new lamps. And along the way traded in the old car for its newer model. Next my husband told me that the garage roof is crumbling and needs replacing. “It’s stewardship,” he said, trying to ....
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Neruda’s Memoirs
We know her simply as “Maureen.” She has become a treasured member of the Good Letters community with her frequent and always thoughtful comments on our posts. But now we can know her further: through her own poetry, recently collected in the volume Neruda’s Memoirs. Now, too, we meet her by her full name: Maureen Doallas. In fact, she structures the volume as a meeting between herself and her readers....
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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