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NaPoWriMo Poems Day #2
Get this: they're up to 575 participating sites over at NaPoWriMo! Today's prompt: Write a poem inspired by the song that was #1 on the day that you were born." Make a mine a…
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Funny Women #1: The Amy Lawless Show
Earlier this year, Angelo Nikolopoulos, curator of the White Swallow reading series at the Cornelia Street Café, organized a reading of funny women writers which included non-fiction writer Marion Wren, the poet Amy Lawless,…
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NaPoWriMo Poem #1: “Metaphor”
A poem is a weather-tested craft,whose worthiness is ultimately found by how it sails the oceanic rift between assaulting waves that never end and utter stillness when the winds are lost, or it's a…
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Poets, Start Your Quills! It’s NAPOWRIMO!!!!!
Inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), in April, 2003, poet and Big Game Books publisher Maureen Thorson started writing a poem and posting them on her blog. Thus, National Poetry Writing Month, or…
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Send in the Crying on the Inside Kind of Clowns by Jennifer L. Knox
Writing poetry to get laughs is like becoming a nun to get laid: it’s absolutely the wrong way to go about it. Young people start writing poems to convey their loneliness. But when they…
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James Franco Buys Film Rights to David Lehman’s “The Last Avant-Garde” for Record Amount: Actor to Play Poet Kenneth Koch
According to Hollywood Reporter, actor/poet James Franco (above right) has paid a record price for the film rights to "The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School," David Lehman's seminal study of…
