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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog: August 2014
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog. The Music in It. Saturday, August 30, 2014. Prompt #198 – Poeming the Blues. While recently listening to B. B. King, it occurred to me that blues lyrics are akin to poetry in many ways and have, in fact, lead to a type of poetry known as “blues poems.” Such poems embrace subjects that include resilience, strength in the face of hardship, oppression, and human sorrows. According to Poets.org,. Http:/ www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/poetic-form-blues-poem. 4 Begin by...
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Pump what? - The Crabby Lady Chronicles by Linda Radice
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The Crabby Lady Chronicles. We know how to do things here. We can negotiate traffic circles which takes reasonable thinking and gut worthy execution. We know the difference between frozen custard on the boardwalk and soft serve slop in a cone. We recognize pork roll, Bruce Springsteen and Lou Costello as our own and pay proper homage. We know that we do not go "to the shore," we go "down the shore.". We're New Jersey. We've survived hurricanes, toxic waste dumps, and bad government. We can take t...Linda...
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Blogalicious: West Caldwell Poetry Festival Featured Poet: Adele Kenny
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THE UNEATEN CARROTS OF ATONEMENT. TWELVE FOR THE RECORD. POET ON THE POEM FEATURES. JOURNALS THAT PUBLISH POETRY BOOK REVIEWS. Friday, July 3, 2015. West Caldwell Poetry Festival Featured Poet: Adele Kenny. Is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All. A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All. Is a collection of 52 prose poems that are deeply rooted in imagery and metaphor. They contain complete sentences and deliberate fragments, speak the la...
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog: Poetry Crossword Puzzle
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog. The Music in It. If you enjoy crossword puzzles, here's one I made that deals with famous poets. The best way to use it is to copy and paste it to your your own document, print it, and work with the hard copy. Enjoy! Creator of Sprung Rhythm. His Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed. Poet Who Wrote of King Arthur. His Wife Authored Frankenstein. The Great Bard from Stratford-Upon-Avon. Poet Who Didn't Capitalize. His Daffy Duck Went to Hollywood. Sandy" Poet Who...
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog: Haiku
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog. The Music in It. Furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto. A frog jumps in:. The sound of water. 8211; Matsuo Basho (1644-94). E above haiku, written during the seventeenth century, is perhaps the best known haiku in the world. Compellingly simple, it invites the reader to perceive its deeper meanings. In traditional Japanese, the haiku was typically written vertically on the page (from top to bottom). Each contained seventeen onji (. 1 Basho said that each haiku...
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The Carriage House Poetry Series: Events 1998-Present
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Carriage House History (Kuran Arts Center). Thanks for visiting, and thanks for your interest in the Carriage House Series. Walt Whitman wrote, “To have great poets, there must be great audiences.” Whether we meet electronically or in person, we're happy to share our commitment to poetry and to poets with you, our "great audience.". Please scroll down for directions and our current calendar; and please take a moment to view our slideshows below (just click on the arrows in the center). Held biennially by...
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Blogalicious: July 2015
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THE UNEATEN CARROTS OF ATONEMENT. TWELVE FOR THE RECORD. POET ON THE POEM FEATURES. JOURNALS THAT PUBLISH POETRY BOOK REVIEWS. Friday, July 24, 2015. Letting the Rabbit Out of the Hat. This is not the cover. I’ve blabbed my news to a handful of people but have not shouted it to the world yet, so here goes: I have a new poetry book coming forth! It’s called The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement,. My last book, Temptation by Water. Came out in 2010. Since then I’ve had one chapbook and the craft book ...I recen...
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog: Reading Poetry Aloud
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog. The Music in It. Originally intended for vocal performance, poetry was first a form of spoken literature, and it has a strong performance tradition. The way a poem “sounds” remains important, and poetry readings bring poets into closer contact with their audiences than the printed word allows. Your audience is not waiting for you to mess up – they’re hoping you’ll be spectacular, so keep that in mind when you read. Often poetry readings don’t offer a micr...
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog: Poetry Quotes
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog. The Music in It. Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC). Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. Plato (BC 427-BC 347). Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky. Carl Sandburg (1878-1967). If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Any h...
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog: Prompt #221 – Dazzling Dismounts
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The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog. The Music in It. Saturday, May 2, 2015. Prompt #221 – Dazzling Dismounts. If this prompt feels familiar, it probably is. It was originally posted on March 28th, three days before the annual National Poetry Month post. I decided to remove the post on April 1st, post the annual Poetry Month "inspirations," and re-post this prompt in the event that you might like to spend more time with it after the Poetry Month reading and writing. I took the one less travelled b...
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