... many significant things happening in this country right now, especially the movement by the gay community to secure equal rights. Mr Myers ... cannot imagine any of these involve quelling the apparent maelstrom of gay poetry threatening to overwhelm the Irish arts landscape ... apparently, for Mr Myers, it is a stanza too far to write about gay people. Use your words for better things than this, Mr Myers. ...

... 8212; *** — Writing poems doesn’t mean he’s gay — *** — Chapbooks Make Great Stocking Stuffers ... and Lecture series at U of Chicago — *** — Poetry Series Spurs Debate on the Use of an Old Slur Against Latinos — ... ;boxer” recites as her opponent looks on at the 7th annual national poetry boxing competition in 2007. (Photo courtesy of the ...

... ;s very much alive. I just checked him on Wiki. He's even written novels and poetry. Maybe that's a novel under the autobio. WIKI was bitching about standards on his entry (which were fine ... WIKI was being a little bitch. WIKI is getting very difficult lately. It would be weird to read a book of poetry by someone to whom I've wanked off. This was years ago, kids! He's my age. ...

... finds his legs walking off from under him. Nevertheless, poets must sometimes look at themselves in order to remember what they are risking. What I see as poetry is a sample of the human scene, its incurable acute melancholia redeemed only by affection. This sample of endurance is innocent and gay: the music of the vowel and consonant is the happy-go-lucky echo of time ...

... . Haiku (pronounced Hi Coo) is a form of Japanese poetry containing three lines of which there are 5 syllables in the first and third line and 7 in ... my youth. It brought back some memories of reading poetry to my children when they were young. Favorite poems were any by A.A. Milne ... sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, ...

... benefits in the Senate bill, compiled by the Alliance for Retired Americans, is here (pdf).] Gay and Gray is a monthly column at Time Goes By written by Jan Adams (bio) in ... 39; novel in an audiobook edition from audible.com and strongly recommend this. There's much poetry in this that comes across well in spoken form. Sometimes audio editions are available from public libraries. I find this a ...

... Tweets are amassed, stanza style, in what reads like Modernist poetry feeding on it's own armour plated tail. There was ... pelicans and dropped cell phones when driving your Bugatti... gay fags put it on twilight and changed the whole song in the ... impatient twelve year old with a remote control. Not that this is an original idea for poetry , visual art, or writing in general--William Burroughs did ...

... a dead heat on Question 1, as the measure was known. Courts and legislatures have made it possible for gay men and lesbians to marry in five states, but Tuesday’s results mirror what ... sizable a chunk of the population thanks to cherry-picking from centuries old books of poetry?  How does that make any sense at all? That is, to anyone other than people who want those rights denied…

... dress blues and browns. I can speak of my grandfather: the doughboy learning a bit of the old parlez-vous with gay mademoiselles baring frantic smiles and foxholed nights when the chauchaut rifle was useless. You can read the ... At Wild Rose Reader, I have an original fairy tale poem titled The Giant’s Magic Harp Sings. I’m doing the Poetry Friday Roundup at Wild Rose Reader today.

... here comes Bolt Bus, with it's free wifi and outlets at every seat. All this, for only $15!!! Holla at a recessionista! I'm heading to Boston to clear my head and reconnect with my main gay, JJSiii. Nothing says "I'm over you and doing me" like Cape Cods on Cape Cod! Anyway, while I'm here (CAUSE I CAN BE), I guess I'll give you a follow-up to the bicycle random. So ...