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Tuesday, May 30, 2006
May 30th forum announcement
Dear Poetry Fans,
Poetry & Poets in Rags
It is a week of taking sides, and a week of coming together.
Sides are being taken around the world, as they have been for too long, causing poets to be imprisoned. In a story not easy to top, an online poet from America, our friend Luisetta Mudie, has translated an essay on love written by imprisoned Uyghur poet Nurmuhemmet Yasin. Sino-America polarity comes to us a few clicks later in another story, in another form, with another call for love. I leave all the other polarities for your discovery, except to mention to please scan down to our Back Page item. We have a showdown tonight at 9:00 Eastern on the web, an event you will not want to miss, Robert Pinsky & Julianna Baggott.
An event you won't want to miss, unless you are fortunate enough to be in the Hay area. We are in the middle of a great coming together of poets and thinkers at The Guardian Hay Festival. Many of this week's articles are related. In fact, one of our Great Regulars, our good friend Sarah Crown, brings us three terrific items, two which will bring you front and center at poetry events there.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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Poetry & Poets in Rags
It is a week of taking sides, and a week of coming together.
Sides are being taken around the world, as they have been for too long, causing poets to be imprisoned. In a story not easy to top, an online poet from America, our friend Luisetta Mudie, has translated an essay on love written by imprisoned Uyghur poet Nurmuhemmet Yasin. Sino-America polarity comes to us a few clicks later in another story, in another form, with another call for love. I leave all the other polarities for your discovery, except to mention to please scan down to our Back Page item. We have a showdown tonight at 9:00 Eastern on the web, an event you will not want to miss, Robert Pinsky & Julianna Baggott.
An event you won't want to miss, unless you are fortunate enough to be in the Hay area. We are in the middle of a great coming together of poets and thinkers at The Guardian Hay Festival. Many of this week's articles are related. In fact, one of our Great Regulars, our good friend Sarah Crown, brings us three terrific items, two which will bring you front and center at poetry events there.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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News at Eleven: After a closed trial
in February 2005 at which he was not permitted to hire a lawyer, [Nurmuhemmet] Yasin was sentenced by the Maralbeshi County People’s Court to 10 years in jail for inciting Uyghur separatism with “Wild Pigeon.” He was transferred in May 2005 to Urumqi No. 1 Prison, and has been permitted no visitors since his arrest.
What is love?
from Radio Free Asia: 'What is Love?' An Essay by Jailed Uyghur Writer Nurmuhemmet Yasin
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What is love?
from Radio Free Asia: 'What is Love?' An Essay by Jailed Uyghur Writer Nurmuhemmet Yasin
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News at Eleven: There Was a Massacre in Andijan
(Translation of a song by Dadakhon Hasanov)
from Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Musical Thought-Crime in Uzbekistan
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from Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Musical Thought-Crime in Uzbekistan
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News at Eleven: [Ammar Kurbi] said
"[Yasser] Melhem was previously imprisoned for belonging to the Communist Action Party and [Omar] Idlibi is a poet and winner of a prize for Arabic literature."
"The security agencies ordered to transfer the new detainees to Damascus," Kurbi's statement said, indicating that "the arrest was a violation of the law since it was not ordered by a judicial authority."
from United Press International: Two more activists arrested in Syria
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"The security agencies ordered to transfer the new detainees to Damascus," Kurbi's statement said, indicating that "the arrest was a violation of the law since it was not ordered by a judicial authority."
from United Press International: Two more activists arrested in Syria
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News at Eleven: Writing from Paris in August
1948 to relatives in the new state of Israel, Paul Celan, having survived the "Final Solution," explains that a poet cannot stop writing, "even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German."
from The New Republic: A visit to Israel sparks an exchange between two great poets
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from The New Republic: A visit to Israel sparks an exchange between two great poets
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News at Eleven: A newly formed foundation,
the Mazisi Kunene Foundation, was created in his honour, and ensures that Kunene's work is identified, archived, translated and published.
from Daily News: Foundation created to honour Zulu poet
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from Daily News: Foundation created to honour Zulu poet
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News at Eleven: "I hadn't expected it at all.
There was a lot of gabble, but at the time I was only 56. I genuinely thought, No Chance. I knew, maybe, I was on a list somewhere, but I wasn't thinking, well, will it come this year? Look at the people who haven't got the Nobel Prize." [--Seamus Heaney]
from The Guardian: The mythmaker
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from The Guardian: The mythmaker
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News at Eleven: Behind us is the sea. Behind
the house is the railway line. The door opens a few inches to reveal a handsome woman in a red dressing-gown.
"Seamus is in the shower," Marie Heaney says, shutting the door to release the chain and looking slightly alarmed to see three of us (a delivery man has arrived at the same time, and she thinks for a moment we are a film crew).
from The Age: Back on home turf
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"Seamus is in the shower," Marie Heaney says, shutting the door to release the chain and looking slightly alarmed to see three of us (a delivery man has arrived at the same time, and she thinks for a moment we are a film crew).
from The Age: Back on home turf
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News at Eleven: In the poem she [Emily Balch] wrote,
"This is a letter of love that I am sending you . . . Of course there are many differences between us . . . But how much more are we alike! Alike we suffer. We laugh and we cry as only men can do."
from MetroWest Daily News: Buckley: The good and loving woman of Wellesley
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from MetroWest Daily News: Buckley: The good and loving woman of Wellesley
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News at Eleven: [Bettany Hughes] added:
"I haven't found Helen of Troy, but this is the first time that anyone has realised that she exists beyond a multilayered fantasy object ... She relates to late-bronze age aristocratic women, who were in charge of much of palace society in the eastern Mediterranean and mainland Greece."
from The Guardian: Saving Helen: from Trojan fantasy girl to real woman
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from The Guardian: Saving Helen: from Trojan fantasy girl to real woman
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News at Eleven: "You can't find a first-grader
who writes bad poetry. The gift of writing, the ability to write poetry is something that has to be actively taken away from you. Which our culture's happy to do, as most cultures are," she [Sharon Olds] says.
from Orlando Sentinel: Putting her life into words
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from Orlando Sentinel: Putting her life into words
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News at Eleven (Back Page): The next round,
to take place tomorrow at 9 p.m. Eastern time, will pit the former United States poet laureate Robert Pinsky against Julianna Baggott, a poet and fiction writer. Visitors to the site will be able to see and play back the completed poems by 9:30.
from The New York Times: QuickMuse
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from The New York Times: QuickMuse
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Great Regulars: Bet you didn't think
a moldy house in South Texas could have anything to do with the Middle East conflicts.
[Naomi Shihab] Nye is known for her poetry of small things; that is, her way of threading together bits and pieces of everyday objects, places and people into her poetry.
from Angela Becerra: WOAI: Tired of War? Plant a Garden
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[Naomi Shihab] Nye is known for her poetry of small things; that is, her way of threading together bits and pieces of everyday objects, places and people into her poetry.
from Angela Becerra: WOAI: Tired of War? Plant a Garden
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Great Regulars: [Fiona] Sampson is working
on the very outer edges of language here, seeking for the truths that emerge at the instant when syntax, vocabulary and even the shape of words on the page dissolves.
from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: A good distance apart
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from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: A good distance apart
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Great Regulars: And it is extraordinarily,
indescribably powerful. As Margaret Atwood invokes a "silence (that) crystallises . . . like a halo", I am struck by the appropriateness of the description for what has just happened to the audience: we sit rapt, breathless, barely daring to clap.
from Sarah Crown: Culture Vulture: Poetry pleases
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from Sarah Crown: Culture Vulture: Poetry pleases
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Great Regulars: [Nick Laird] engages in less
smalltalk than [Owen] Sheers, but his sonorous voice is compelling and lends resonance to his powerful poems. The sound of the rain, meanwhile, surrounds the tent, sheltering us from the outside world and allowing the poets' voices to sing out amid the deepening silence within.
from Sarah Crown: Culture Vulture: Verse luck
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from Sarah Crown: Culture Vulture: Verse luck
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Great Regulars: Up to that point, poetry
had not played an important role in his life. "As an engineer, I had very little interest in poetry," [Ed] Clautice admits. "Nearing retirement, though, I composed a humorous complimentary poem for a fellow retiree and, suddenly, I found I could write!"
from Bill Diskin: York Daily Record: Poetryork: Thirty years of laughter and verse
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from Bill Diskin: York Daily Record: Poetryork: Thirty years of laughter and verse
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Great Regulars: This week's poems begin
with the poet Annie Finch remembering being a child in her parents' garden, followed by a poem by her mother, Margaret Rockwell Finch, sitting in her garden.
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: Mother and daughter poets in the May garden
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from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: Mother and daughter poets in the May garden
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Great Regulars: The poet's name is José Rizal,
a true renaissance man, and now hailed as the liberator of the Philippines. He had written this poem the night before he was executed in 1896 by the Spanish, who still occupied and ruled the Philippines as its colony.
from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Philippine Bill of 1902 and a Poem
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from Linda Sue Grimes: BellaOnline: Philippine Bill of 1902 and a Poem
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Great Regulars: Everywhere I travel I
meet people who want to write poetry but worry that what they write won't be "any good." No one can judge the worth of a poem before it's been written, and setting high standards for yourself can keep you from writing. And if you don't write you'll miss out on the pleasure of making something from words, of seeing your thoughts on a page. Here Leslie Monsour offers a concise snapshot of a self-censoring poet.
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 061
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from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 061
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Great Regulars: The penetrating, subtle
plainness of language, like the distinct, skillful rhyming, harks back to the time of [John] Dowland, though the poem is thoroughly contemporary.
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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(New to) Great Regulars: If telling me about themselves
helps a poet say something astonishing--hey, I'll listen. But if it is only prattle, I won't be interested long. Remember, I have had to fight for my life and regain it after treatment for breast cancer. So my patience is great but not to be squandered. [--Tess Gallagher]
from B.T. Shaw: Gallagher on new book: a search for her ghosts
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from B.T. Shaw: Gallagher on new book: a search for her ghosts
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Great Regulars: At the present time there
is a manifest preference for the "conversational" in poetry--the style of "direct speech," opposed to the "oratorical" and the rhetorical; but if rhetoric is any convention of writing inappropriately applied, this conversational style can and does become a rhetoric--or what is supposed to be a conversational style, for it is often as remote from polite discourse as well could be.
from Daily Times: Purple Patch: 'Rhetoric' and poetic drama --TS Eliot
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from Daily Times: Purple Patch: 'Rhetoric' and poetic drama --TS Eliot
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Great Regulars: There is a whole series
of converging reasons why it is somewhat easier for a poet than a prose writer to feel at home in an authoritarian society. To begin with, bureaucrats and other "practical" men usually despise the poet too deeply to be much interested in what he is saying. Secondly, what the poet is saying--that is, what his poem "means" if translated into prose--is relatively unimportant, even to himself.
from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Prevention of literature --George Orwell
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from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Prevention of literature --George Orwell
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Great Regulars: Like Religion, Love, Nature,
while those terms are indispensable, and we all give a sufficiently accurate meaning to them, in my opinion no definition that has ever been made sufficiently encloses the name Poetry; nor can any rule of convention ever so absolutely obtain but some great exception may arise and disregard and overturn it.
from Daily Times: Purple Patch: A backward glance --Walt Whitman
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from Daily Times: Purple Patch: A backward glance --Walt Whitman
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Great Regulars: A Christmas Poem
with Many People
Written to be Read in May
by Wendy McGrath
from Edmonton Journal: The Poetry Project
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Written to be Read in May
by Wendy McGrath
from Edmonton Journal: The Poetry Project
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Great Regulars: The Toad and The Mouse
by Seamus Heaney, translated from the Scots of Robert Henryson (c 1420-1490)
from The Guardian: The Toad and The Mouse by Seamus Heaney, translated from the Scots of Robert Henryson (c 1420-1490)
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from The Guardian: The Toad and The Mouse by Seamus Heaney, translated from the Scots of Robert Henryson (c 1420-1490)
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Great Regulars: Elias Galicia is a third
generation El Pasoan. He loves the Sun City for its power and beauty in sounds and images. He currently lives in Santa Barbara, California.
from Newpaper Tree: Poetry: Stepping Off a Plane into the Smoggy L.A. Air
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from Newpaper Tree: Poetry: Stepping Off a Plane into the Smoggy L.A. Air
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Great Regulars: With its many repetitions
and steady beat, the poem carries the hypnotic power of a nursery rhyme. We are in the magical world of a child’s mind encountering life and nature, while hearing adult voices seeking to guide and warn.
from Portsmouth Herald News: Spotlight Poems from the Hoot
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from Portsmouth Herald News: Spotlight Poems from the Hoot
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Poetic Obituaries: "He was a very social person,"
he [Kan Chhatwal] said. "He would establish an immediate and genuine connection."
When he working for the community or visiting friends and family, [Kuldeep Singh] Chhatwal would focus on poetry. Kan said his father appreciated all kinds of poetry but it was verse in Urdu, an ancient language, that he liked the most.
from SikhSangat News: Ontario Sikh community loses founding member
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When he working for the community or visiting friends and family, [Kuldeep Singh] Chhatwal would focus on poetry. Kan said his father appreciated all kinds of poetry but it was verse in Urdu, an ancient language, that he liked the most.
from SikhSangat News: Ontario Sikh community loses founding member
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Poetic Obituaries: In 1949 he [Avigdor Dagan] immigrated
to Israel and settled into a career at the Foreign Ministry, where he served as an envoy to Japan, Burma and Yugoslavia, and was Israel’s Ambassador to Poland, Norway and Austria. He began his literary career already in his youth in Prague, where he published a number of poetry anthologies, including "Hebrew Melodies," which earned him an important literary award in Czechoslovakia and was later translated to Hebrew.
from Yedioth Internet: Writer Avigdor Dagan passes away
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from Yedioth Internet: Writer Avigdor Dagan passes away
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Poetic Obituaries: "He was an athlete, an actor
and a poet," said his [Paul Gleason's] daughter, Shannon. "He gave me and my sister a love that is beyond description that will be with us and keep us strong for the rest of our lives."
"My dad was an intelligent, hard-working Renaissance man," she added. "His motto was to always keep working."
from Playfuls.com: Actor Paul Gleason Dies at 67
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"My dad was an intelligent, hard-working Renaissance man," she added. "His motto was to always keep working."
from Playfuls.com: Actor Paul Gleason Dies at 67
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Poetic Obituaries: [Don Orton] who could define any word
thrown at him and who never allowed a grammatical mistake to slip through his children's lips is himself undefinable.
She [Leslie Orton] tries to find the right words but instead defines him through snapshots of his life, which ended May 17 at the age of 88.
from The Salt Lake Tribune: His capacity to relate to others defined his life
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She [Leslie Orton] tries to find the right words but instead defines him through snapshots of his life, which ended May 17 at the age of 88.
from The Salt Lake Tribune: His capacity to relate to others defined his life
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Poetic Obituaries: [The Rev. Sonny] Dean said
the communities in this mountainous county are "real tight. If we lose one, it saddens all of us."
At [George] Petra's funeral, the Rev. Franklin Stewart read a poem the miner had written recently titled "Almost Anything Will Do" about his Christian faith.
from The Gleaner: Funerals begin for five miners
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At [George] Petra's funeral, the Rev. Franklin Stewart read a poem the miner had written recently titled "Almost Anything Will Do" about his Christian faith.
from The Gleaner: Funerals begin for five miners
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Poetic Obituaries: As befitting a postmodernist,
he chose forms that contrived to puncture expectations, leading readers into what one reviewer called "one hall of mirrors after another."
[Gilbert] Sorrentino wrote eight volumes of poetry in addition to the novels, and also had worked as an editor.
from Los Angeles Times: Gilbert Sorrentino, 77; Avant-Garde Novelist, Professor
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[Gilbert] Sorrentino wrote eight volumes of poetry in addition to the novels, and also had worked as an editor.
from Los Angeles Times: Gilbert Sorrentino, 77; Avant-Garde Novelist, Professor
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Poetic Obituaries: In a poem Michael Zombeck
had sent to friends, he wrote, "Follow me . . . Love life . . . Live every moment out. Don't forget to cry, love, and laugh, grieve, smile, scream, play . . . Don't forget to love life."
from Contra Costa Times: Classmate shared love of life
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from Contra Costa Times: Classmate shared love of life
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
May 23rd forum announcement
Dear Poetry Fans,
Poetry & Poets in Rags
Online poetry. We headline with what is already well-known, Frank Wilson's article that is all over the discussion boards, the blogs, and around the world where poetry people talk poetry, and where other people will be talking poetry now. This, on the week that David Biespiel, the editor of Poetry Northwest, comes out with his first batch of winners for April's IBPC contest. This, now, on the same week his article in The Oregonian arrives, which you'll find listed first in our Great Regulars section.
Congratulations to Stevie Reed of Blueline on taking first place, Sachi Nag of The Writer's Block on second, Allen Weber from Frugal Poet on third, and Jude Goodwin on snagging the HM spot for South Carolina Writer's Workshop.
I mentioned two articles so far. This week's P&P in Rags links you to 11 articles in News at Eleven, 10 Great Regulars, and 17 Poetic Obituaries. Poetry, poems, poets--all online.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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Poetry & Poets in Rags
Online poetry. We headline with what is already well-known, Frank Wilson's article that is all over the discussion boards, the blogs, and around the world where poetry people talk poetry, and where other people will be talking poetry now. This, on the week that David Biespiel, the editor of Poetry Northwest, comes out with his first batch of winners for April's IBPC contest. This, now, on the same week his article in The Oregonian arrives, which you'll find listed first in our Great Regulars section.
Congratulations to Stevie Reed of Blueline on taking first place, Sachi Nag of The Writer's Block on second, Allen Weber from Frugal Poet on third, and Jude Goodwin on snagging the HM spot for South Carolina Writer's Workshop.
I mentioned two articles so far. This week's P&P in Rags links you to 11 articles in News at Eleven, 10 Great Regulars, and 17 Poetic Obituaries. Poetry, poems, poets--all online.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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News at Eleven: Poetry?
Yes, poetry. It seems that the crème de la crème of verbal construction, what the philosopher Martin Heidegger, in a rare lapse from impenetrability, called the essential form of speech, has taken to cyberspace the way dandelion seeds take to a gust of wind.
from Philadelphia Inquirer: Online poetry: A thriving community
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from Philadelphia Inquirer: Online poetry: A thriving community
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News at Eleven: In a letter to Anne Stevenson
in the 1960s (which [Alice] Quinn quotes), [Elizabeth] Bishop writes: 'My outlook is pessimistic. I think we are still barbarians, barbarians who commit a hundred indecencies and cruelties every day of our lives, as just possibly future ages may be able to see.'
from London Review of Books: Awful but Cheerful
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from London Review of Books: Awful but Cheerful
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News at Eleven: Instead, she reinvented herself;
Molly Turpin became Valentine Ackland. The process took several years of experimentation, but she declared her independence immediately by putting on trousers.
from The Guardian: Labours of love
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from The Guardian: Labours of love
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News at Eleven: [Carl Phillips] "knows how
to make the sentences become vocal, so that they approach actual song. The expressive, sinuous, intricately unfolding energies of grammar, delayed verbs and attenuated clauses, the pleasure in feeling the syntax loosen and snap.... He goes right to the emotion, without blah-blah about anything inessential." [--Robert Pinsky]
from Riverfront Times: Chapter & Verse
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from Riverfront Times: Chapter & Verse
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News at Eleven: "After reading one of Deborah's
poems, you change from the inside out. You become more alive and sensitive to your surroundings than you were before. Deborah Fries invites you to reflect. And that is always a good thing." [--Joanne Leva]
Fall Rut
from Philadelphia Inquirer: Beyond the pain of the past Deborah Fries, poet laureate of Montgomery County, reaches for a new sense of hope in her work.
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Fall Rut
from Philadelphia Inquirer: Beyond the pain of the past Deborah Fries, poet laureate of Montgomery County, reaches for a new sense of hope in her work.
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News at Eleven: Feminist critics, however,
from the late 1960s onward, found Hope’s poetry a field rich in opportunities to burn him in effigy. The males in [A. D.] Hope’s poems were aroused by the beauty of the females, were they not? Well, then.
from The Times Literary Supplement: The primacy of A. D. Hope
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from The Times Literary Supplement: The primacy of A. D. Hope
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News at Eleven: A great opera with a bad libretto
is a contradiction in terms. And a potentially great libretto remains lifeless clay until music gives it breath.
The poet in Mr. [J. D.] McClatchy can live with that. "Words prompt music," he said. "Composers know best how true it is that they depend on the librettist."
from The New York Times: Touch of the Poet, Soul of the Collaborator
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The poet in Mr. [J. D.] McClatchy can live with that. "Words prompt music," he said. "Composers know best how true it is that they depend on the librettist."
from The New York Times: Touch of the Poet, Soul of the Collaborator
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News at Eleven: "He had thought that
his tall uncles in their dark clothes were princes of an elite brotherhood. He had thought the synagogue was their house of purification...But he had grown to understand that none of them even pretended to these things. They were proud of their financial and communal success . . ." [--Leonard Cohen]
from All About Jewish Theatre: Leonard Cohen: Poet, Prophet, Eternal Optimist
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from All About Jewish Theatre: Leonard Cohen: Poet, Prophet, Eternal Optimist
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News at Eleven: [Benjamin Zephaniah]: When I was 11,
I had a conversation with my mother. She had beef on the table and I asked: "Where did the beef come from?” She said: "From the man in the van", so I asked: "Where does the man in the van get it from?" And she said that it came from the man on the farm. So I asked: “Where did the man on the farm get it from?" And she said, from the cow. So I asked: “Where does the cow get it from?" and she said: "You silly boy! It is the cow!" At that moment I realised that I had never connected the two things.
from Infoshop News: Benjamin Zephaniah--Poetic Thoughts
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from Infoshop News: Benjamin Zephaniah--Poetic Thoughts
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News at Eleven: The University of Tehran presented
the Diploma of an Honorary Doctorate in Persian Language and Literature to the renowned American poet Coleman Barks today, the Persian service of CHN reported on Wednesday.
from Mehr News Agency: University of Tehran grants honorary doctorate to Coleman Barks
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from Mehr News Agency: University of Tehran grants honorary doctorate to Coleman Barks
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News at Eleven (Back Page): Jackson Hille's recitation
of Billy Collins' poem "Forgetfulness" Tuesday night earned him the national title and a $20,000 scholarship from the National Arts Endowment and the Poetry Foundation, which publishes Poetry magazine.
from United Press International: Ohio student takes national poetry crown
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from United Press International: Ohio student takes national poetry crown
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Great Regulars: [Mario] Roffi's alteration
may make the poem more bluntly concrete, but it's a willful undoing of the original.
This translation makes me defensive for Keats and for a defining moment in English poetry, too--defensive in a way I don't usually feel when reading translations into English when my lack of familiarity with the other language softens into suspended disbelief.
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry
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This translation makes me defensive for Keats and for a defining moment in English poetry, too--defensive in a way I don't usually feel when reading translations into English when my lack of familiarity with the other language softens into suspended disbelief.
from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry
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Great Regulars: In the afternoon, Carolyn Conners
from Tenant’s Harbor takes us out walking into the gentle warmth of the day. Conners chooses to publish her poems online at her website (chconners.com) to encourage the cultural community to share poetry.
Walking the Boundaries
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: Gentle May days with black flies and peepers
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Walking the Boundaries
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: Gentle May days with black flies and peepers
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Great Regulars: Most of us have taken
at least a moment or two to reflect upon what we have learned from our mothers. Through a catalog of meaningful actions that range from spiritual to domestic, Pennsylvanian Julia Kasdorf evokes the imprint of her mother's life on her own. As the poem closes, the speaker invites us to learn these actions of compassion.
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 60
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from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 60
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Great Regulars: In that photograph I saw
of young [Stanley] Kunitz, the child in his ill-fitting shirt and awkward necktie stands as straight as a guardsman. His face is solemn and fierce with determination. In my mind, that courageous, even defiant moment of grief defines Kunitz: He was determined to live, to fight death to the last millimeter, to endure.
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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Great Regulars: At any rate, I think this
will enable us all to get at the truth of the subject better than by simply having my piece by itself and nothing more. You can comment online at http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/14622444.htm. So go to!
Of course, you can also comment here, too.
from Frank Wilson: Books Inq.: About online poetry . . .
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Of course, you can also comment here, too.
from Frank Wilson: Books Inq.: About online poetry . . .
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Great Regulars: Most writers--poets in especial
--prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy--an ecstatic intuition--and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes, at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought--at the true purposes seized only at the last moment--at the innumerable glimpses of idea that arrived not at the maturity of full view--at the fully-matured fancies discarded in despair as unmanageable--at the cautious selections and rejections--at the painful erasures and interpolations--in a word, at the wheels and pinions--the tackle for scene-shifting--the step-ladders, and demon-traps--the cock’s feathers, the red paint and the black patches, which, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, constitute the properties of the literary histrio. [--Edgar Allan Poe]
from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Philosophy of composition --Edgar Allan Poe
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from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Philosophy of composition --Edgar Allan Poe
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Great Regulars: Teaching to Shoot
by Valentine Ackland
from The Guardian: Original poetry: Teaching to Shoot by Valentine Ackland
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from The Guardian: Original poetry: Teaching to Shoot by Valentine Ackland
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Poetic Obituaries: In a writing career
spanning two decades, she [Clare Boylan] wrote short stories, non fiction and fictional works, many of which were translated.
Works included 'A Nail on the Head', 'The Literary Companion to Cats' and 'Emma Brown'.
from Unison.ie: Novelist was acclaimed for style and wit across the globe
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Works included 'A Nail on the Head', 'The Literary Companion to Cats' and 'Emma Brown'.
from Unison.ie: Novelist was acclaimed for style and wit across the globe
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Poetic Obituaries: Mr. [Wallace T.] Collett published
a volume of poetry and enjoyed creating art with a typewriter and color. His 1982 interpretation of two toppling towers--a premonition of 9/11--was exhibited at the Friends Center in Philadelphia.
from Philadelphia Inquirer: Wallace T. Collett: Company executive, 91
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from Philadelphia Inquirer: Wallace T. Collett: Company executive, 91
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Poetic Obituaries: "He inspired a lot of children,"
[Thomas] Tran said.
[Victor] Dao was unusually gifted with languages, speaking at least seven, including French, Russian, German and Spanish, in addition to Vietnamese and English. "He also loved to write poetry," Tran said.
from The Washington Post: Video Captures Men With Victim's Card
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[Victor] Dao was unusually gifted with languages, speaking at least seven, including French, Russian, German and Spanish, in addition to Vietnamese and English. "He also loved to write poetry," Tran said.
from The Washington Post: Video Captures Men With Victim's Card
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Poetic Obituaries: The former miner [John Geehan]
was one of the most colourful characters in the history of Erewash Borough Council, where he was a member for 20 years.
A firebrand Labour man, he occasionally took the heat out of debates by quoting his latest verse.
from Ilkeston Today: Poet councillor dies
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A firebrand Labour man, he occasionally took the heat out of debates by quoting his latest verse.
from Ilkeston Today: Poet councillor dies
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Poetic Obituaries: "He was especially fond of
E.E. Cummings," said Susan Petit, Mr. [Jack] Gill's wife. "He liked his theme of aliveness, and his affirmation of life, and his belief that it is important to live in the present to live life fully, not just in the abstract."
from The Mercury News: Jack Gill, dedicated teacher of English
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from The Mercury News: Jack Gill, dedicated teacher of English
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Poetic Obituaries: "It just wasn't fair.
His dad is having a really tough time with it."
Josh [Groves] was a Grade 11 student at Ridgevalley School in Crooked Creek. He loved to write poetry, listen to his favourite band, Slipknot, and use his sarcastic wit. "He joked around all the time, about everything," [Shaylene] Penner said.
from Edmonton Journal: Teenager killed after being struck by car on Hwy 43
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Josh [Groves] was a Grade 11 student at Ridgevalley School in Crooked Creek. He loved to write poetry, listen to his favourite band, Slipknot, and use his sarcastic wit. "He joked around all the time, about everything," [Shaylene] Penner said.
from Edmonton Journal: Teenager killed after being struck by car on Hwy 43
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Poetic Obituaries: Norma [Ruth Iverson] enjoyed
many hobbies including water color painting, doll collecting, photography, poetry and collecting antiques and household items. She also enjoyed studying her Norwegian heritage and belonged to the Sons of Norway, Black River Falls Lodge.
from Appleton Post-Crescent: Iverson, Norma Ruth
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from Appleton Post-Crescent: Iverson, Norma Ruth
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Poetic Obituaries: "The poem comes
in the form of a blessing," he [Stanley Kunitz]] said simply of his work. "Through the years I have found this gift of poetry to be life-sustaining, life-enhancing and absolutely unpredictable. Does one live, therefore, for the sake of poetry? No, the reverse is true: poetry is for the sake of life."
from U.S. Department of State: Washington File: U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz Dies at 100
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from U.S. Department of State: Washington File: U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz Dies at 100
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Poetic Obituaries: [Albert George LaFave] owned and
operated his own construction company for numerous years. He also enjoyed playing the guitar, singing and writing poetry.
from The Daily Press: Albert George LaFave
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from The Daily Press: Albert George LaFave
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Poetic Obituaries: "It is with deep sadness
that we announce the death of Jacques-Hugues Letrange on May 17, 2006 on descent from the summit of Everest," the expedition’s home team has reported.
from MountEverest.net: Everest North: Jacques-Hugues Letrange lost on descent from the summit
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from MountEverest.net: Everest North: Jacques-Hugues Letrange lost on descent from the summit
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Poetic Obituaries: A poignant poem
written by murdered teenager Michael McIlveen was a moving centrepiece at his funeral today.
As thousands of people--many in Celtic and Rangers jerseys--lined the streets of Ballymena, the teenager's words echoed round a church amid a tidal wave of tears.
from Belfast Telegraph: Sea of tears as schoolboy's funeral takes place
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As thousands of people--many in Celtic and Rangers jerseys--lined the streets of Ballymena, the teenager's words echoed round a church amid a tidal wave of tears.
from Belfast Telegraph: Sea of tears as schoolboy's funeral takes place
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Poetic Obituaries: As a popular columnist
in various Saudi newspapers, poet, prose writer and literary critic, Abdullah Nur’s career spanned five decades. He was admired as a pioneer of modernism in Saudi writings.
from Arab News: Renowned Saudi Journalist Dead at 77
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from Arab News: Renowned Saudi Journalist Dead at 77
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Poetic Obituaries: The rai godmother [Cheikha Rimitti]
was born in Tessala, a small village in the countryside of western Algeria. She was the first women voice to denounce through rhythmic poetry and songs women's repression in society.
from morocco Times: Cheikha Rimitti Rai diva dies
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from morocco Times: Cheikha Rimitti Rai diva dies
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Poetic Obituaries: Despite a career
often spent speaking out against television, [Eli A.] Rubinstein watched a fair amount of it, especially after his wife, Minnie, died in 1985, his daughter said.
He also let his three children watch television while they were growing up. They were each allowed to choose one hour a week.
from Los Angeles Times: Eli A. Rubinstein, 87; Studied the Effects of TV Violence on Children
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He also let his three children watch television while they were growing up. They were each allowed to choose one hour a week.
from Los Angeles Times: Eli A. Rubinstein, 87; Studied the Effects of TV Violence on Children
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Poetic Obituaries: "It's a polite way
of calling someone a nut. These things I uncover aren't conspiracies. They're simply the way powerful people conduct business."
The indefatigable Mr. [Sherman] Skolnick, 75, who chased scoops until the end, died Sunday of a likely heart attack at his South Side home, family said.
from Chicago Tribune: Sherman Skolnick, activist and political gadfly, dies at 75
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The indefatigable Mr. [Sherman] Skolnick, 75, who chased scoops until the end, died Sunday of a likely heart attack at his South Side home, family said.
from Chicago Tribune: Sherman Skolnick, activist and political gadfly, dies at 75
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Poetic Obituaries: A comic genius
who was also able to write what is perhaps the bleakest novel in American fiction, The Sky Changes (1966)--a novel about divorce in America, and his first--[Gilbert] Sorrentino set himself challenges with each new book, generally indifferent to how critics would react.
The range of his work and his absolute dedication to inventing and exploring character are unequalled by any of his contemporaries.
from Center for Book Culture: Gilbert Sorrentino Dead at 77
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The range of his work and his absolute dedication to inventing and exploring character are unequalled by any of his contemporaries.
from Center for Book Culture: Gilbert Sorrentino Dead at 77
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Poetic Obituaries: "The liberal sees outer,
removable institutions as the ultimate source of evil; sees man's social task as creating a world in which evil will disappear. His tools for this task are progress and enlightenment. The conservative sees the inner unremovable nature of man as the ultimate source of evil; sees man's social task as coming to terms with a world in which evil is perpetual and in which justice and compassion will both be perpetually necessary . . ." [--Peter Viereck]
from The New York Times: Peter Viereck, Poet and Conservative Theorist, Dies at 89
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from The New York Times: Peter Viereck, Poet and Conservative Theorist, Dies at 89
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Sunday, May 21, 2006
Midweek Breaking Line: Or, as a woman from Mississippi
who identified herself only as Steadydrip, put it: "Using the Internet, society finds a voice when society feels like it has no voice... . I might not be educated, astute, degreed or academic but I am. And, in simply being, I have entrance into the warp and woof of the universe..."
Note: Starting today, my blog will offer a clearinghouse of poetry Web sites. I'll maintain that page and invite your suggestions and queries.
ONLINE EXTRA
For Frank Wilson's blog on poetry and other literature, go to http://go.philly.com/booksinq
from Frank Wilson: Philadelphia Inquirer: Some is quite good, but is it literature?
and from Frank Wilson: Philadelphia Inquirer: Online poetry: A thriving community, where you can comment on the article.
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Note: Starting today, my blog will offer a clearinghouse of poetry Web sites. I'll maintain that page and invite your suggestions and queries.
ONLINE EXTRA
For Frank Wilson's blog on poetry and other literature, go to http://go.philly.com/booksinq
from Frank Wilson: Philadelphia Inquirer: Some is quite good, but is it literature?
and from Frank Wilson: Philadelphia Inquirer: Online poetry: A thriving community, where you can comment on the article.
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Friday, May 19, 2006
Midweek Breaking Line: This Sunday, May 21st,
Online Poetry Event
Philadelphia Inquirer's Books Section
Over six months of planning and effort by Frank Wilson goes out on the wire, and comes to fruition for online poetry.
Pass it on, to anyone who does poetry online. It will be a poetry event you won't want to miss.
Yours,
Rus
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Philadelphia Inquirer's Books Section
Over six months of planning and effort by Frank Wilson goes out on the wire, and comes to fruition for online poetry.
Pass it on, to anyone who does poetry online. It will be a poetry event you won't want to miss.
Yours,
Rus
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
May 16th forum announcement
Dear Poetry Fans,
Poetry & Poets in Rags
It was just yesterday, that the news came out on Stanley Kunitz's death, and already, some very fine articles from some very fine newspapers are online for us to read. We headline with the LA Times's story, and you'll find the link to one of The Washington Post's in Poetic Obituaries.
From there, we travel all over the globe this week. I'll leave all the rest of the articles to your discovery--some real fine poems, and some real fine poets.
Poetry Trivia Question: Until the year 2002, what was the longest-running poetry-only journal in the country, with a circulation of 1,000.
Answer shortly.
I have an important pre-announcement for the IBPCommunity. We are thrilled to welcome David Biespiel as IBPC judge. He will, very shortly, be doing a three-month term for us. The precise months are not set as far as I know, but I think his stint begins either for April's poems, or May's. Stay tuned.
David has been a "Great Regular" ever since Poetry & Poets in Rags has had them--before which each of his monthly poetry columns from the Oregonian made our list of links. In fact, his column has headlined in the past, and so has a column about him.
He is Director, and Writer in Residence at The Attic Writers' Workshop.
Here is a link to his line-up of 14 books: The Attic Bookshelf at Powells.com.
He is Instructor of English at Oregon State University
He also hails from the American Northwest, where so much of our poetry heritage has come from.
And now to answer the trivia question, which many IBPCers already knew: Poetry Northwest, the journal David Biespiel is now the Editor of.
How cool is he? Now how cool are we? Sharpen your pencils, and make all atonement with your muse. David is rocking the house!
(Psssst . . . We have more great news developing.)
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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Poetry & Poets in Rags
It was just yesterday, that the news came out on Stanley Kunitz's death, and already, some very fine articles from some very fine newspapers are online for us to read. We headline with the LA Times's story, and you'll find the link to one of The Washington Post's in Poetic Obituaries.
From there, we travel all over the globe this week. I'll leave all the rest of the articles to your discovery--some real fine poems, and some real fine poets.
Poetry Trivia Question: Until the year 2002, what was the longest-running poetry-only journal in the country, with a circulation of 1,000.
Answer shortly.
I have an important pre-announcement for the IBPCommunity. We are thrilled to welcome David Biespiel as IBPC judge. He will, very shortly, be doing a three-month term for us. The precise months are not set as far as I know, but I think his stint begins either for April's poems, or May's. Stay tuned.
David has been a "Great Regular" ever since Poetry & Poets in Rags has had them--before which each of his monthly poetry columns from the Oregonian made our list of links. In fact, his column has headlined in the past, and so has a column about him.
He is Director, and Writer in Residence at The Attic Writers' Workshop.
Here is a link to his line-up of 14 books: The Attic Bookshelf at Powells.com.
He is Instructor of English at Oregon State University
He also hails from the American Northwest, where so much of our poetry heritage has come from.
And now to answer the trivia question, which many IBPCers already knew: Poetry Northwest, the journal David Biespiel is now the Editor of.
How cool is he? Now how cool are we? Sharpen your pencils, and make all atonement with your muse. David is rocking the house!
(Psssst . . . We have more great news developing.)
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags Blogspot
IBPC Home
IBPC Newswire
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News at Eleven: Stanley Kunitz,
the elegant centenarian of American poetry, whose musings about life, death, love and memory brought him a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and two terms as U.S. poet laureate, died Sunday at his home in New York City. He was 100.
from Los Angeles Times: Poet Stanley Kunitz Dies at 100
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from Los Angeles Times: Poet Stanley Kunitz Dies at 100
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News at Eleven: The piece is only nine
lines long, but one was missing for 17 years until the perfect words arrived in the poet’s mind: "white apples and the taste of stone." [Donald] Hall liked its sound enough to name the poem "White Apples" and make the entire missing line the book’s title.
from Portsmouth Herald Accent: Donald Hall's 'White Apples and the Taste of Stone' chronicles 60 years of poetry
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from Portsmouth Herald Accent: Donald Hall's 'White Apples and the Taste of Stone' chronicles 60 years of poetry
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News at Eleven: Here are the full texts
of selected poems by writers from California's San Joaquin Valley.
Gospel, by Philip Levine.
from PE.com: Selected poems from San Joaquin Valley poets
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Gospel, by Philip Levine.
from PE.com: Selected poems from San Joaquin Valley poets
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News at Eleven: Its lyrics are in Pashtu,
the main language of this ethnically diverse nation, as agreed in the 2003 Constitution.
They are based on a poem by Afghan poet, Abdul Bari Jihani.
from Hindustan Times: Afghanistan gets new national anthem
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They are based on a poem by Afghan poet, Abdul Bari Jihani.
from Hindustan Times: Afghanistan gets new national anthem
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News at Eleven: "I am free," Mr. [Ahmed Fouad] Negm
said, as he scratched his head with long, carefully cut fingernails. "I am not afraid of anybody because I do not want anything from anyone."
And then, looking down from his rooftop perch upon a pile of rotting trash, where children, dogs and donkeys competed for scraps, he lamented what has become of Egypt.
from The New York Times: A Poet Whose Political Incorrectness Is a Crime
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And then, looking down from his rooftop perch upon a pile of rotting trash, where children, dogs and donkeys competed for scraps, he lamented what has become of Egypt.
from The New York Times: A Poet Whose Political Incorrectness Is a Crime
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News at Eleven: "But look at me now,"
she implores Seyavash. "What excuse can you have to reject my love, why do you turn away from my body and beauty? I have been your slave ever since I set eyes on you, weeping and longing for you; pain darkens all my days, I feel the sun itself is dimmed. Come, in secret, just once, make me happy again, give me back my youth for a moment."
from The Washington Post: Michael Dirda
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from The Washington Post: Michael Dirda
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News at Eleven: "Other countries fight terrorism
with guns and bombs, but in Yemen we use poetry," says Mr. [Amin al-]Mashreqi later. "Through my poetry I can convince people of the need for peace who would never be convinced by laws or by force."
from The Christian Science Monitor: In poetry-loving Yemen, tribal bard takes on Al Qaeda--with his verse
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from The Christian Science Monitor: In poetry-loving Yemen, tribal bard takes on Al Qaeda--with his verse
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News at Eleven: [Axel Alejandro] Pinpin, 34,
an Agriculture graduate of the Cavite State University, is a 1999 Fellow of the University of the Philippines (UP) Writers’ Workshop and author of a self-published poetry compilation titled Tugmaang Walang Tugma (Rhyming without Ryhmes). Friends say he had been compiling poems for a second book at the time he was arrested.
from Bulatlat: 'Destabilizing' Artists
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from Bulatlat: 'Destabilizing' Artists
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News at Eleven: Killing and collective guilt
are often on [Franz] Wright's mind. "Not all mankind will be cast into fire," he says in "Everyone's Elegy," "though/quite a number of them were/during the decade preceding my/birth and no doubt even more will be/shortly."
from The New York Times: In Pursuit of Revelation
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from The New York Times: In Pursuit of Revelation
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News at Eleven: In "The Oulipo Factor,"
Marjorie Perloff describes [Caroline B]ergvall’s "sonic, verbal and rhetorical devices" as being derived from "post-punk music and sound poetry," building on the Duchampian pun with sophisticated word play. "More Pets," for instance, starts with repetitive disjunctions:
a more—cat a more—dog doga more—horse
from The Brooklyn Rail: The Fruits of Risk
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a more—cat a more—dog doga more—horse
from The Brooklyn Rail: The Fruits of Risk
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News at Eleven (Back Page): Among the best
is the poem from which the title derives--about his [Gary Soto's] first boyish attempt at romance--which refers not to flame but to an orange "so bright against/The gray of December" that from a distance "Someone might have thought/I was making a fire in my hands."
from The Washington Post: Poetry for Kids
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from The Washington Post: Poetry for Kids
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Great Regulars: During his earlier period,
he [Andrew Marvell] produced what is arguable one of the most artfully perfected poems in the English tradition, "To his Coy Mistress".
from Caron Andregg: BellaOnline: Andrew Marvell--To His Coy Mistress
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from Caron Andregg: BellaOnline: Andrew Marvell--To His Coy Mistress
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Poetic Obituaries (Just in): Kuwaiti writer and poet,
Abdullah Al Ansari, passed away at dawn today at the age of 84.
from Bahrain News Agency: Kuwaiti Writer Dies
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from Bahrain News Agency: Kuwaiti Writer Dies
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Great Regulars: "I believe that poetry
and lyrics are very similar," Zack [Jackson] says. "In a standard situation, whether I'm writing a song or a poem, there's structure, rhyme-scheme, etc. And like poetry, many songs nowadays actually lack traditional structure, and a lot don't even use rhyme."
from Bill Diskin: York Daily Record: Poetryork: Where poetry and songwriting come together
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from Bill Diskin: York Daily Record: Poetryork: Where poetry and songwriting come together
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Great Regulars: J Ebon Proctor is
a poet living in York, PA.
For You Mom
from Bill Diskin: Yorkblog: For You Mom (by J Ebon Proctor Sr)
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For You Mom
from Bill Diskin: Yorkblog: For You Mom (by J Ebon Proctor Sr)
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Great Regulars: I was aware of all
of us sharing a similar appreciation, as if all of us were silently creating the same poem of praise for all we were seeing, a collective ode for spring. I woke up the next morning and wrote this poem.
When The Word Went Out
[by Elizabeth W. Garber]
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: In the time of yellow, blossoming
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When The Word Went Out
[by Elizabeth W. Garber]
from Elizabeth W. Garber: Village Soup: A Year of Poetry from a Wealth of Maine Poets: In the time of yellow, blossoming
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Great Regulars: Contrary to the glamorized
accounts we often read about the lives of single women, Amy Fleury, a native of Kansas, presents us with a realistic, affirmative picture. Her poem playfully presents her life as serendipitous, yet she doesn't shy away from acknowledging loneliness.
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 059
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from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 059
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Great Regulars: What is a prose poem?
Who knows? Usually, the term is defined in contrast to poems written in lines that printers call "ragged right." Instead, maybe it should be defined in contrast to conventional prose narratives. For example, here is Elizabeth Bishop's translation of "Brazilian Tragedy," a prose poem by Manuel Bandeira.
from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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from Robert Pinsky: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice
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Great Regulars: The quintessence of all
these emotions and sentiments were packed into his [Bankimchandra Chatterjee's] 'Bande Mataram' song which became the song of millions in the days of our struggle for freedom. It became the life breath of our Maha Kavi Bharathi as well who sang in Tamil: 'Vande Mataram Enbom!'
from V Sundaram: News Today: The founding bard of Indian nationalism
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from V Sundaram: News Today: The founding bard of Indian nationalism
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Great Regulars: A man who wishes
to pass for a saint or a philosopher on the strength of a button in his hat, or a buckle in his shoes, is not very likely to be either; as the button in the hat or the buckle in the shoes will answer all the same purpose with the vulgar, and save time and trouble. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Truth about education --G K Chesterton
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from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Truth about education --G K Chesterton
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Great Regulars: This is why all the best
criticism of the world has been written by men who have had within them, not only the reflective and analytical faculty of critics, but also the gusto of artists — Goethe, Carlyle, Lessing, Schlegel, Saint-Beuve, and, to drop a story or two, Hazlitt, Hermann Bahr, Georg Brandes and James Huneker.
from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Criticism of criticism --Hl Mencken
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from Daily Times: Purple Patch: Criticism of criticism --Hl Mencken
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Great Regulars: by Gilberto Moreno
The View from the Rescue Mission
from Newpaper Tree: Poetry: The View from the Rescue Mission
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from Newpaper Tree: Poetry: The View from the Rescue Mission
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Poetic Obituaries: Another teacher,
Manju Rakshit, said: "Archana [Arora] used to write poetry and compose bhajans. She would sing at school functions. She never bunked classes and her sincerity was exemplary."
from The Telegraph India: Studious girl, caring daughter
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from The Telegraph India: Studious girl, caring daughter
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Poetic Obituaries: [Jim] Corbin had climbed peaks
in South America, Mexico and Europe but was as comfortable dining in the city with his family as spending the night on a moonlit ridge, Patty Corbin said.
He had recently taken up poetry. He also "was a master at leftovers," Patty Corbin said, and could transform refrigerator hodgepodge into a frittata.
from The Seattle Times: Man who died on hike was veteran climber
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He had recently taken up poetry. He also "was a master at leftovers," Patty Corbin said, and could transform refrigerator hodgepodge into a frittata.
from The Seattle Times: Man who died on hike was veteran climber
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Poetic Obituaries: "One of the interesting things
about his teaching was, all of his students played differently and at a very high level," Anthony said.
[Gordon] Epperson also wrote for professional music journals and published several books, including "The Art of Cello Teaching: The Musical Symbol," "The Mind of Edmund Gurney," a book of poetry called "Sonnets From India" and a novel, "The Guru of Malad."
from Arizona Daily Star: Epperson, teacher and cellist, dies at 85
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[Gordon] Epperson also wrote for professional music journals and published several books, including "The Art of Cello Teaching: The Musical Symbol," "The Mind of Edmund Gurney," a book of poetry called "Sonnets From India" and a novel, "The Guru of Malad."
from Arizona Daily Star: Epperson, teacher and cellist, dies at 85
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Poetic Obituaries: The leading biographer of Poland's
literary legend Bruno Schulz, Polish poet and author Jerzy Ficowski died in Warsaw Tuesday aged 82, Poland's Writers' Guild confirmed.
A Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighter during the World War II Ficowski was also renowned for his tomes of poetry touching on the tragic fate of Polish Jews in the Holocaust.
from KSL Television & Radio: Renowned Polish poet and author Jerzy Ficowski dies at 82
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A Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighter during the World War II Ficowski was also renowned for his tomes of poetry touching on the tragic fate of Polish Jews in the Holocaust.
from KSL Television & Radio: Renowned Polish poet and author Jerzy Ficowski dies at 82
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Poetic Obituaries: "The deepest thing I know
is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue," he [Stanley Kunitz] once said. "It is a rather terrifying thought that is at the root of much of my poetry."
from The Washington Post: Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stanley Kunitz Dies
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from The Washington Post: Pulitzer-Winning Poet Stanley Kunitz Dies
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Poetic Obituaries: [Ryan J. Larsen] was on
his way back to his dorm after attending classes when the crash occurred, according to his father, Jeffrey Larsen.
His father said he enjoyed playing guitar and had a strong interest in eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Larsen was also an avid writer and enjoyed poetry, Jeffrey Larsen said.
from Rutland Herald: Marlboro college student, 19, dies after crash into tree
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His father said he enjoyed playing guitar and had a strong interest in eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Larsen was also an avid writer and enjoyed poetry, Jeffrey Larsen said.
from Rutland Herald: Marlboro college student, 19, dies after crash into tree
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Poetic Obituaries: [Arvind] Lele, who was jailed
during the emergency, was a member of the assembly from Kasbapeth Constitutency in the city in 1978 and 1980.
The senior BJP leader had translated the poems of the former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee in many languages.
from Zee News: Senior BJP leader Arvind Lele dead
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The senior BJP leader had translated the poems of the former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee in many languages.
from Zee News: Senior BJP leader Arvind Lele dead
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Poetic Obituaries: In his poem, "Nightfall In the Jemez Mountains,"
he [Robert Lloyd] writes how stands of pines have calligraphic meaning: "only the brushstrokes/of these pines stand/over the closed circle . . . stars in clearings/overhead . . . over this closed circle/now without horizon/the evening cleared/to the closing black . . . blackness/only the eyes can read/kalligraphia/ in beauty it is written/in beauty it is written."
from The Albuquerque Tribune: A life in full
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from The Albuquerque Tribune: A life in full
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Poetic Obituaries: They described him
as a free-spirited young man with a talent for art and poetry who hadn't found his direction in life after he dropped out of high school.
Mr. Labbe and other friends of Pfc. [Brian M.] Moquin said that while they are against the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, they supported his decision to join the Army.
from Worcester Telegram & Gazette News: Fallen soldier’s creativity recalled
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Mr. Labbe and other friends of Pfc. [Brian M.] Moquin said that while they are against the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, they supported his decision to join the Army.
from Worcester Telegram & Gazette News: Fallen soldier’s creativity recalled
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Poetic Obituaries: [Robert S. Sargent] published 11
books, starting with "Now Is Always the Miraculous Time" (1977). His literary subjects included family, the South, jazz and his adopted daughter, Lula Jane. Many of his poems were printed in literary journals, including the Antioch Review, and poetry anthologies.
from The Washington Post: Robert S. Sargent, 93; Weapons Specialist, Poet
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from The Washington Post: Robert S. Sargent, 93; Weapons Specialist, Poet
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Poetic Obituaries: [Sophie M. (Seitz) Siller] was published
twice in the National Library of Poetry.
She was a 58 year member and sang in the choir at First Presbyterian Church of Willoughby. She was a member of the Mentor Senior Center and a former member of the Maple Grove Grange and Willoughby Women's Club.
from The News-Herald: Sophie M. (Seitz) Siller
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She was a 58 year member and sang in the choir at First Presbyterian Church of Willoughby. She was a member of the Mentor Senior Center and a former member of the Maple Grove Grange and Willoughby Women's Club.
from The News-Herald: Sophie M. (Seitz) Siller
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Poetic Obituaries: During the service Reverend Howe read
two original poems that [Frank J.] Tarazewich wrote in 1993, while mourners listened intently. In his poem titled "A Loss," the speaker reminds readers that time "brings forth spiritual cleansing and healing of soul" that "leaves us with memories/and thoughts of love everlasting."
from keepMEcurrent.com: District, State mourns Tarazewich
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from keepMEcurrent.com: District, State mourns Tarazewich
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