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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
August 31st forum announcment
Dear Poetry Aficionados,
Poetry & Poets in Rags blog
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This week, we kick off our News at Eleven section with "An Ode to the Countryside". The National Trust, a non-governmental charity in England, which protects and opens "to the public over 350 historic houses, gardens and ancient monuments," is looking for the "the best poem about the British countryside." Following this is a link to Ruth Padel's look at Fiona Sampson's Rough Music, followed by two looks at Seamus Heaney's Human Chain. Other names to drop, just for starters, are Roger McGough, W.S. Merwin, Katharine Towers, and Natasha Trethewey.
Thanks are due again to our summer IBPC judge Ruth Ellen Kocher. Her results for August are in. Congratulations to the poets and the poetry boards that sent in the winning poems:
1st Place: The Catch, written by C.J. Costello, from the poetry board The Poets' Graves
2nd Place: A Quieting, written by Michael Harty, from Wild Poetry Forum
3rd Place: Natural Selections, written by Michelle Beth Cronk, from Poetry Circle
Thanks for clicking in.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags blog
IBPC Home
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Poetry & Poets in Rags blog
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This week, we kick off our News at Eleven section with "An Ode to the Countryside". The National Trust, a non-governmental charity in England, which protects and opens "to the public over 350 historic houses, gardens and ancient monuments," is looking for the "the best poem about the British countryside." Following this is a link to Ruth Padel's look at Fiona Sampson's Rough Music, followed by two looks at Seamus Heaney's Human Chain. Other names to drop, just for starters, are Roger McGough, W.S. Merwin, Katharine Towers, and Natasha Trethewey.
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1st Place: The Catch, written by C.J. Costello, from the poetry board The Poets' Graves
2nd Place: A Quieting, written by Michael Harty, from Wild Poetry Forum
3rd Place: Natural Selections, written by Michelle Beth Cronk, from Poetry Circle
Thanks for clicking in.
Yours,
Rus
Our links:
IBPC: Poetry & Poets in Rags
Poetry & Poets in Rags blog
IBPC Home
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News at Eleven: But whatever the motivation,
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from The Independent: What is the best poem about the British countryside?
then National Trust: An Ode to the Countryside
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News at Eleven: But no past is safe from poetry,
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The "roughness" under the poems' silken surface is the underworld: rape, loss, danger in hidden depths.
from The Guardian: Rough Music by Fiona Sampson
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News at Eleven: Elsewhere, he recalls the painter Derek Hill,
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That's a lovely, if essentially desolating, image and there are others just as fine, though in general the lyrical wattage is lower here than in early Heaney or even than in such later volumes as Electric Light or The Spirit Level.
from Irish Independent: Review: Human Chain by Seamus Heaney
then The Herald: Seamus Heaney: Human Chain (Faber, £12.99)
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News at Eleven: My best job, though, was at a technical college
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My degree opened me up to this wonderful course where the students were chefs. I knew what un chinois was and why it was called that, but I didn't know what it was used for--sifting flour, it's in the shape of a Chinaman's hat.
Florentine they knew meant something made with spinach but I was able to tell them it was because when Henri II of France married Catherine de Médicis, a princess from Italy, she came from Florence and introduced spinach into the cuisine. That was all fascinating.
from The Connexion: Roger McGough: my love of languages
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News at Eleven: "I said something about the conservancy
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Billington, who selects the poet laureate, says Merwin is making some of his most universal work right now, adding, "His environmental concerns are very powerful, but they grow out of an even deeper sensibility about human beings and their relation to life and the rest of nature itself."
from Los Angeles Times: W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate
then Idaho Mountain Express: Poet W.S. Merwin takes nature seriously
then Los Angeles Times: A W.S. Merwin timeline
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News at Eleven: [by Katharine Towers]
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I waited to hear
from The Guardian: Extract: The Floating Man by Katharine Towers
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News at Eleven: [Natasha Trethewey's] new book, "Beyond Katrina:
A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast," is an attempt to stand up for her home state, an effort to preserve the memories of the land in the face of mighty destructive forces, including forces that masquerade as rebuilding.
As low-income housing is bulldozed and casinos rush in to fill the void, the land that she knew continued to disappear even faster, she writes. Trethewey quotes a fellow Gulfport resident who said, "The devastation of the storm will not surpass the devastation brought on by the recovery."
For her own sake, and for her hometown, she wanted to put up a literary marker. "My intent is to create some kind of monument, not a static monument but a living monument."
from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Mississippi poet Natasha Trethewey writes of Katrina's broad impact
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As low-income housing is bulldozed and casinos rush in to fill the void, the land that she knew continued to disappear even faster, she writes. Trethewey quotes a fellow Gulfport resident who said, "The devastation of the storm will not surpass the devastation brought on by the recovery."
For her own sake, and for her hometown, she wanted to put up a literary marker. "My intent is to create some kind of monument, not a static monument but a living monument."
from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Mississippi poet Natasha Trethewey writes of Katrina's broad impact
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News at Eleven: "Raystown River Trout" is the antithesis
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". . . just this prism
flash gone gray and my sick wish
not to have caught it; I wished I'd cut
the line before the glitter got away."
from New West: "God, Seed" Celebrates Nature and Laments Environmental Degradation
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News at Eleven: Carved by Edward Onslow Ford,
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The sculpture is the embodiment of youthful loss and wasted possibility.
from Aiken Standard: Poet memorialized by the college that expelled him
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News at Eleven: And among the countless writers
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There is a river clear and fair
'Tis neither broad nor narrow;
It winds a little here and there--
It winds about like any hare;
And then it holds as straight a course
As, on the turnpike road, a horse,
Or through the air an arrow.
That ought to be utterly plodding. But it is curiously soothing as well, even idyllic, like a homely but serene Dutch landscape. And somehow all the more idyllic for being comic.
from The Wall Street Journal: Book Excerpt: 'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
then The Times Literary Supplement: Parody, the vile art
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News at Eleven (Back Page): Poetry rained from the skies
on Saturday night in Berlin as 100,000 bookmarks printed with poems by 80 poets from Germany and Chile were dropped on the city from a helicopter.
Lasting for half an hour, the initiative was intended as a protest against war and a message of peace, as well as a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the independence of Chile.
from The Guardian: Berlin 'bombed' with poetry
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Lasting for half an hour, the initiative was intended as a protest against war and a message of peace, as well as a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the independence of Chile.
from The Guardian: Berlin 'bombed' with poetry
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Great Regulars: I am, at these moments, in a state of bliss,
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This turns to ecstasy when one of the cowboys says I am a 'natural'. I glow and mutter into Dwight's ear, "Hear that, you ornery bastard?" He nods, but then he nods all the time as all horses do when they are walking.
I check my politics. Yes, I am drifting detectably to the right. There is something definitely conservative if not downright Republican about being on a horse in Montana.
But nothing, surely, is as Republican as a gun in your hand.
from Bryan Appleyard: via The Sunday Times: The Magnificent One
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Great Regulars: What we've seen is that the way that the world responded
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from Fatima Bhutto: Uprising Radio: Fatima Bhutto Criticizes Pakistan Govt and US in Flood Relief Efforts (click "this segment")
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Great Regulars: [Mark Conway's] work has appeared
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Here's a poem from Conway's new collection:
Tarot Card of the Dreaming Man, Face Down
from Marianne Combs: Minnesota Public Radio: State of the Arts: Minnesota Poetry: Mark Conway's "Tarot Card of the Dreaming Man, Face Down"
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Great Regulars: CarolAnn says: This perfect little poem
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from Carol Ann Duffy: The Daily Mirror: Poetry Corner
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Here, the summer season of 'soft fruits' can also be read as a period of happiness as a wife and mother which is now over.
The woman's 'children' are now birds who plunder the fruit.
from Carol Ann Duffy: The Daily Mirror: Poetry Corner
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Great Regulars: Award-winning author and CanLit Champ
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The ABCs of the NHL
from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: World-Exclusive: George Bowering's poetic debut
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And, finally, in the interests of full-disclosure, the good Lard and bum Leg willing, come hell or high howling, yours truly will unveil the first set of chapbooks (upon which I am now working), published by a new imprint under the umbrella of Cranberry Tree Press, "Judith Fitzgerald Presents." The first Series, we report with understandable enthusiasm and gratitude, will feature cover art-work by Leonard Cohen, including the one you see at the top of this page, "Burning Bush."
from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: Muse Flashes from Points Elsewhere
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Great Regulars: Now the speaker will have to be content
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Then again, as is expected in a well-crafted, traditional villanelle, the speaker's mind returns to the melancholic prompt; this time she repeats, "The ferry is no simple pleasure boat."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Linda Pastan's Leaving the Island
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Great Regulars: And in every story, she [Robin Black] creates
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from Katie Haegele: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Stories sparkling with poetic vision
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Great Regulars: Breakfast at the Road Runner Cafe
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CAFE still burning in neon after sunup,
from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Breakfast at the Road Runner Cafe by William Notter
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Complaint
by James Wright
She's gone. She was my love, my moon or more.
from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Complaint by James Wright
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Excerpt from Paradise Lost
by John Milton
(Eve speaks to Adam)
With thee conversing I forget all time,
from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Excerpt from Paradise Lost by John Milton
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I Ride Greyhound
by Ellie Shoenfeld
because it's like being
from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: I Ride Greyhound by Ellie Shoenfeld
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Island Cities
by John Updike
You see them from airplanes, nameless green islands
from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: Island Cities by John Updike
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The Nose on Your Face
by Susan Browne
In all your life, you will never see your actual face.
from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: The Nose on Your Face by Susan Browne
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This Night Only
by Kenneth Rexroth
[Eric Satie: GYMNOPÉDIE #1]
Moonlight now on Malibu
from Garrison Keillor: The Writer's Almanac: This Night Only by Kenneth Rexroth
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Great Regulars: [Frank Kermode] was one of the last exemplars
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from Adam Kirsch: Slate: The Literary Critic as Humanist: Frank Kermode, 1919-2010, exemplified an ideal that is dying.
then Frank Kermode: Telegraph: A memory for poetry
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Great Regulars: I've read dozens of poems written about
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Five Years Later
from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 283
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Great Regulars: [by E. Ethelbert Miller]
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from E. Ethelbert Miller: E-notes: So This Is What the Living Do
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Great Regulars: We might also infer that,
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"Pier" is reproduced here by kind permission of the author and Gallery Press. Enjoy--but if you're inspired to jump into the sea from a height, please do it with due care.
Pier by Vona Groarke
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: Pier by Vona Groarke
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(New to) Great Regulars: [by Pat Tompkins]
At the Marsh
a lone egret stabs
from The Christian Science Monitor: At the Marsh--A poem
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[by Lois Silverstein]
Pears
somewhere another woman is cooking pears
from The Christian Science Monitor: Pears--A poem
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[by Patricia A. McGoldrick]
Territorial Preserve
Grackles are sounding worried--
from The Christian Science Monitor: Territorial Preserve
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[by Jean Chapman Snow]
That's the Way the Wind Blows
I hadn't planned to do my wash today
from The Christian Science Monitor: That's the Way the Wind Blows
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[by Fonda Bell Miller]
To Do List for Saturday
Do laundry
from The Christian Science Monitor: To Do List for Saturday
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[by Katelyn Sack]
'Where did I put the night?'
I could have sworn I left it by my shoes, neatly lined up by the door
from The Christian Science Monitor: 'Where did I put the night?'
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a lone egret stabs
from The Christian Science Monitor: At the Marsh--A poem
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[by Lois Silverstein]
Pears
somewhere another woman is cooking pears
from The Christian Science Monitor: Pears--A poem
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[by Patricia A. McGoldrick]
Territorial Preserve
Grackles are sounding worried--
from The Christian Science Monitor: Territorial Preserve
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[by Jean Chapman Snow]
That's the Way the Wind Blows
I hadn't planned to do my wash today
from The Christian Science Monitor: That's the Way the Wind Blows
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[by Fonda Bell Miller]
To Do List for Saturday
Do laundry
from The Christian Science Monitor: To Do List for Saturday
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[by Katelyn Sack]
'Where did I put the night?'
I could have sworn I left it by my shoes, neatly lined up by the door
from The Christian Science Monitor: 'Where did I put the night?'
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Great Regulars: I Like the Wind
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from The New Yorker: Poetry: "I Like the Wind"
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by Cleopatra Mathis
from The New Yorker: Poetry: "Western Conifer Seed Bug"
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Great Regulars: By Natasha Trethewey
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--After Katrina, 2005
At first, there was nothing to do but watch.
from PBS: Newshour: Weekly Poem: 'Watcher'
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Great Regulars: Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been
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from Powells: Review-A-Day: An Elegiac Ouvre
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from Powells: Review-A-Day: Reading New Poetry: Close Calls with Nonsense
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Poetic Obituaries: During those years, she [Roberta Dorr] researched
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In the mission field, Dorr taught school to children in the Gaza area, and worked in the mission. A strong Christian, Dorr would rise at 4 a.m. to pray and read religious works. She often shared her faith with her family in poems she wrote.
from The Daily Times: Writer, missionary Roberta Dorr dead at 88
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Poetic Obituaries: Upon graduating, Kim [Edgecomb] began work at
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from Hornell Evening Tribune: Kimberlee K. Edgecomb
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Poetic Obituaries: Outspoken about politics, he [Ahmad Faraz] went
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He stayed for in Britain, Canada and Europe for six years before returning to Pakistan, where he was initially appointed Chairman Academy of Letters and later, Chairperson of the Islamabad based National Book Foundation for several years. He has been awarded with numerous national and international awards.
He was awarded Hilal-e-Imtiaz in 2004 in recognition of his literary achievements. He returned the award in 2006 after becoming disenchanted with the government and its policies.
from SAMAA: Ahmad Faraz's 2nd death anniversary today
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Poetic Obituaries: The authorities closed his [Rodolfo Fogwill's] bank accounts
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When he came out, he wrote a story, Muchacha Punk (Punk Girl), which won a prize and led him to dedicate himself to literature. He founded his own publishing company, Tierra BaldÃa (Waste Land), where he published his poetry and stories, as well as that of young Argentine poets such as Osvaldo Lamborghini and Néstor Perlongher, and then began to write his own novels.
from The Guardian: Rodolfo Fogwill obituary
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Poetic Obitaries: Arab poets have always enjoyed a lofty status.
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from The Guardian: Ghazi al-Gosaibi obituary
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Poetic Obituaries: [Carol] Kline said her nephew [Army Staff Sgt. James R. Ide V]'s
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from St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Soldier from Festus killed in Afghanistan
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Poetic Obituaries: Yesterday, family and friends filled
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from The Morning Journal: Service honors man killed by bear
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Poetic Obituaries: [Edgar H. Koch] was awarded a
from Herald Times Reporter: Edgar H. Koch
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Poetic Obituaries: Eleanor [M. Kotchou] had artistic talents,
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from Mansfield News Journal: Eleanor M. Kotchou
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Poetic Obituaries: [Tracey Ann Krupinski] enjoyed hanging out with
her "girls," playing with her cat Draven, writing poetry, listening to music and spending time with her family.
Her life was colorful; her will to live incredible, her impact on many powerful.
from Pocono Record: Tracey Ann Krupinski
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Her life was colorful; her will to live incredible, her impact on many powerful.
from Pocono Record: Tracey Ann Krupinski
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Poetic Obituaries: Alec [Loverink] was gifted with a beautiful voice
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from Austin Daily Herald: Aleczandra Ray Loverink, 20
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Poetic Obituaries: Like Edwin Morgan's work and life,
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In the hour-long service, friends and colleagues of Morgan, who died last week aged 90, read several of the Makar's poems, while saxophonist Tommy Smith improvised a jazz lament to Morgan's poem Wolf.
from Herald Scotland: Morgan's funeral marked in music and verse
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Poetic Obituaries: [Dr. Eugene "Gene" Norman] loved gardening,
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from Green Bay Press Gazette: Norman, Dr. Eugene "Gene"
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Poetic Obituaries: Enjoying her retirement she [Donna J. Sartor] created
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from Port Clinton News Herald: Donna J. Sartor
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Poetic Obituaries: "She was in very high spirits and looking forward
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from NY Daily News: Brooklyn Law School graduate Irina Shekhets dies in Nepal plane crash on her 30th birthday
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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