seems to be sick and tired of the way the poor try to get our attention. He says that they need to stay out of the way and quit showing off their misery. We're taking care of things, he says. The last line is devastating.
a documentary called "Cold Mountain," all about the Tang Dynasty poet Han Shan. [James] Lenfestey features prominently in that documentary, and is a great devotee of the eccentric character from 12 centuries ago. It inspired Lenfestey to write A Cartload of Scrolls, a collection of 100 poems written in the style of Han Shan. Here's one of them:
a page-long poem called, simply, "Manchester". As well he might: this is his first collection, and Manchester is the city of his birth. But rather than describing the city in 2010, or even in 1982, when he made his entrance into it, he fishes back through time to the moment of Manchester's pomp, when it stood as the world's first bona fide industrial boom town. "Queen of the cotton cities", he addresses it magniloquently in the opening line, "nightly I piece you back into existence"--and goes on to do just that, through succulent descriptions of the "frayed bridal train" of factory chimneys; the "warped applause-track of Victorian rain" that wets the miry streets.
she has always maintained, she contrasts her light-hearted childhood's response with her serious maturity. But because her "heart goes to" her belovèd, she now asks him to "ponder" his importance.
the influence of jazz rhythms on his poetry, saying that "something pulled jazz and poetry together inside me. . . . I am often awed by the jazz musician, that ability to compose and improvise while he plays."
novelist, short story writer and blogger with an acknowledged and authored past as a shoplifter. He has been called a revolutionary and a rogue, and, by the gossip blog Gawker, "perhaps the single most irritating person we've ever had to deal with." But he commands no armies and seeks few conquests beyond enough money so he can write the kind of books he likes to write, as might have come from Ernest Hemingway, Ann Beattie or "Kmart" realists such as Joy Williams and Bobbie Ann Mason.
by Carl Dennis
like me, who sometimes visit places which in memory are hallowed but which, through time, have been changed irreparably. It is a painful experience but it underlines life. Here Carl Little, who lives in Maine, returns to a place like that.
The Shortness of Breath
as it looks. Good footnotes will unlock plenty of its secrets. Milton is vastly learned, of course, but he's also a ready communicator. One of his aims is "to justify God's ways to man" and you, the reader, catch the urgency. He is a performer, and a performer, despite the masks, always seeks to fire an audience with imaginative empathy. The poem, a canzone, has verse-paragraphs of varied shape and size; sometimes they resemble mini odes, with uneven line-lengths and unpredictable rhymes (another cause of Johnson's grumbles) but the fluidity is energising.
White-bearded guy
and left him with three little girls. In the 1950s the company bosses found out about Chuck's unionizing history from factory spies. They tried to bully him into quitting his job.
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by Benjamin Gantcher
by Matt Reeck
by Bakar Wilson
by Gary Corseri
after 'L'Aquilone' by Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)
by Patty Seyburn, September 2010
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available on poets.org, she says, "I can never understand when teachers claim they are 'uncomfortable' with poetry--as if poetry demands they be anything other than responsive, curious human beings. If poetry comes out of the deepest places in the human soul and experience, shouldn't it be as important to learn about one another's poetry, country to country, as one another's weather or gross national products?"
--headline in the New York Times
as well as a landscape architect. He loved nature, and more than anything he loved the landscape of Mississippi with his whole being. He would sit and listen to the wind in the pines and would get up early to take photos of the misty landscapes that would be on display at those hours. He was consumed with an endless curiosity and love of learning about nature. He left a great legacy for all of us here now and for those that will follow us," [Bob] Brzuszek said [of Ed Blake].
his Bowser ancestors in America had never been enslaved, that as a youngster he was a star athlete from North Philly called Juicey, that he was co-captain of the football team at the academically elite Central High school, that he received a football scholarship to Temple University, that he worked his way through college after breaking his leg in his second year and therefore being unable to play football, that he graduated with a degree in journalism, that he was an accomplished and published author and poet, and that he was a member of the nerves of steel Army Bomb Squad in the Korean War.
volumes of poetry and two further novels. In the 1960s he ran on communist principles a mussel-farming co-operative in north Wales, a venture that proved financially disastrous as he insisted on turning all the profits over to his workers.
as a loving mother and grandmother, a skilled painter and poet, for her beautiful voice, and as a joyous servant of the Lord.
formed a united front in postwar Europe, urging a break from tradition and toward freedom and vitality. In an intense three years, Cobra produced two major international exhibitions and published 10 issues of a magazine for which Corneille wrote poetry. Cobra disbanded in 1951, saying it had achieved its goals, and the artists returned to their individual careers.
in New York City and throughout her life maintained a life-long enjoyment of fashion, design, and all things artistic. She [Mildred V. "Miki" (nee Bennington) De Angelo] had an innate skill for drawing and painting. She was an avid reader and loved writing and poetry.
during the service that Alicia [DeBolt] had written entitled "Don't be sad when I die."
and playwright, was the Deputy Secretary General of the Pan-African of Writers Association (PAWA).
crochet, cook, bake and do crafts. She also was a poet, thanks to help from her sister, Carol.
68, a homemaker and administrative assistant who enjoyed walking, going for rides, prayer, reading her Bible, spending time with her family, and writing poetry and stories, some of which had been published, died of lung cancer Saturday at her home in Tacoma, Wash.
under Mayor Walter E. Washington in the 1970s, Mr. [John W.] Harrod led the opening of the Market 5 Gallery as a place for artists to display their work. 
playwright and political organizer, founded Kayak in 1964 and for the next 20 years ran it as a one-man show. He designed the magazine, edited it, printed it, illustrated it and organized the collating parties where its pages were stapled together, slipped into mailing envelopes and stamped. 
11 books of poetry, two plays, a book of short stories, a syllabus for teaching poetry and four books of essays. He also has edited several books and magazines. He has had dozens of his poems, essays, reviews and stories published in various papers, magazines and anthologies.
delinquent accounts department for Mutual Federal Savings Bank approximately fifteen years prior to her retirement in 1984.
at Mountain View Elementary School, where he served for 34 years. He was also the head basketball coach at Mountain View for many years, and he worked closely with the North Wilkes High School coaching staff, including Paul Gregory and Joe Linney, to build up the basketball program at North Wilkes.
a week, never missed the Oscars on TV, got signatures for petitions in support of environmental causes, hiked in Red Rock Canyon and on Mount Charleston, taught poetry workshops and English classes, and held season tickets to the Las Vegas Philharmonic.
the London Review's writers Frank Kermode was the one through whom we spoke most often and most eloquently. In all he wrote nearly 250 pieces for the LRB, the first in October 1979, a review of J.F.C. Harrison's book on millenarianism, the last, in May this year, a review of Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. 'Eloquently': was that the right word? Not really. Frank's writing was so much more exact, more stylish, more patient, more ironic, more playful, more attentive, more cunning, more cagey than 'eloquence' can suggest.
cooking and baking. Some of her favorite moments were preparing Thanksgiving and other holiday dinners for her family--usually with the "help" of her grandchildren. She enjoyed reading and writing poetry and also liked to watch movies, especially foreign films.
was "simultaneously a philosopher, theologian, mystic, priest and poet."
writing at Poetry-W, an internet writing workshop that works through e-mails, and how it made my brain sizzle. I was amazed to learn, using my megawatt nosiness, that she had only started writing poetry. Had the poetry world been a Greek myth, Jayne was Athena who sprang into being--fully formed and fully armed with pen and paper--from the head of Zeus.
of legendary Punjabi poet and writer, Ahmad Rahi. Rahi received the Pride of Performance award; he passed eight years ago on September 2, 2002, leaving behind a glowing trail of over 1,900 unforgettable melodies and around 260 film scripts. 
and taught classes dealing with novels and Romantic poetry. For a number of years in the 1980s and 1990s, he was the graduate English programs' director of graduate studies. 
the truths he gleaned from his journalism. Unlike other young poets who found muses from the imagined, Alex drew inspiration from the real sentiments and aspirations, agony and hope of the masses. What he would not share with friends and colleagues would end up in his poems, told more fervently, told more gracefully.
on his own farm when his father passed away, and was one of the first farmers in this area to farm exclusively organic produce, along with his sister, Rose Santaniello-Cross. He sold produce at their roadside stand, and by his charm and bigger than life personality, his customers turned into permanent friends. Along with being a farmer, he was also a poet. He recited his poetry at Stockton University, where he attended three years majoring in methods, and wowed the crowd with his originality and style.
on the capital as well as around 4,000 poems covering a variety of topics.
and some deal with death, romance and at times the absurd. As an experimental poet, he frequently changed his style and content. He often used the imageries of the moon, sun, sky, clouds and water in his poetry. 
the Warren Conservation Commission for many years, and was an active volunteer for Save The Bay, contributing to many wildlife and habitat restoration projects. She was also recording secretary for the Kickemuit River Council. As an officer of the Laurel Park Improvement Association (LPIA), Janis authored and was awarded five environmental grants from private, federal and state agencies to restore the LPIA marsh and wetlands area. She was also awarded six consecutive Earth Day grants by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. An avid kayaker, gardener, poet and amateur naturalist, she was happiest when on the Kickemuit River.
