Poetry News For October 11, 2008, written 6 hours ago, Poetry News Saturday SCIENCE! edition: — Un-total Recall: Amnesics Remember Grammar, But Not Meaning Of New Sentences — — Base running and base stealing would seem to be arts driven solely by a runner's speed, but there's more than mere gr...

Issue 1/Flarf Poll, written 2 days ago, Lots of people seem to think that the Issue 1 pdf has something to do with Flarf. Are you one of them? Take the quick and easy poll to the right!

I am not like I was before, written 1 day ago,

~Keep Poetry~, written 2 weeks ago, shining tearOriginally uploaded by Resmi 17Where do writers goWhen doors are no longer receivingWhere do a heart achesWhen tears are not fallingI keep fallingYet I refuse to remain on floorSo I stand beyond the fallsJust being a woman who wipes her tearsThat keeps...

Stepladders to the Apocalyspe, written 6 hours ago,

Poetry.

Adventures in suburbia.

We need the Funk...gotta have that Funk..., written 5 hours ago, I skipped all the myriad poetry activities in the area to go hear Faro?s new band, 5 Flavor Discount, down in Cranston tonight.  Good funk and decent  rock.  Band was tight, there were go-go dancers on stage,...

The truth... And other stories.

David Bond: "At the Annual Thresherman's Show", written 3 days ago, The VPR Poem of the Week is David Bond's "At the Annual Thresherman's Show," which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2001-2002 issue (Volume III, Number 1) of Valparaiso Poetry Review.David Bond works as the manager of...

seeds, written 1 week ago,

Nothing happens, twice.-Samuel Beckett, written 1 day ago, Nothing happens, twice.-Samuel Beckett

No on Prop 8, and homily-lobbying, written 1 day ago, What burns me up about propositions going on the ballot is they customarily get a pet name, like "The Gay Marriage Prop." Now, if you didn't do your voterly duty and read your handy dandy Voter Guide, or do your due surfing diligence an...

Sarah Lindsay, written 1 week ago, In the current issue of Poetry," Tell the Bees" from Sarah Lindsay's Twigs and Knucklebones, Copper Canyon Press, 2008.

Princess Haiku is a literary collage of poetry, prose, photography, classical music, dance and book reviews, written in the tradition of a poetic memoir.

From the Heart of the Fire, written 1 week ago, Inspired by Deuteronomy 9:10 (NLT).I was there,Forty days and forty nights,Forty hearts and forty fights.You held my handAnd I took out a knifeTo cut up the cloudThat covered my life.But life was just that sandThat slippedThrough my fingers.Those night...

from "In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" (1968), written 2 days ago, "Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated. They are the Midwest's open sores. Ugly to see, a source of constant discontent, they sap the body's strength. Appalling quantities...

paradise watching, written 1 day ago, Zion awaits gibbous and burnished, yearns, for her people as she gazes down on xeric wrinkles in the desert land where her denizens toil, unaided. Vitrifying the sand with her exquisite tears underneath the cruel melting rays of tyranny's sun in man's world. She...

Poems from the heart of a Kansas born woman written in her younger years.

Blockade, written 1 month ago, All who have set outand have failedFailed not their taskNor failed themselvesBut have set a temporary blockadeWith this blockade brings frustrationand great shameShame that hides strengthWith lack of beliefBut has set a dillusional aspet of lifeWithout sense of witsand...