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Recent poets of interest – werdivory

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Dreaming another way to be. On Writing, Editing. December 18, 2016. Recent poets of interest. Wasn’t sure how to briefly define this group, which consists of poets who’ve written poems that I ran across after the election, and have been taking comfort in. American science writer, poet. American poet; born 1951. Mexicano architect, art critic, poet; born 1951. Lisa M. Bradley. Tejana poet and novelist; {@cafenowhere}. 1925 1974, Mexicana ambassador, journalist, essayist, poet. Ber Grin (Itsik Grinberg).

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Poetry Reading List – werdivory

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Dreaming another way to be. On Writing, Editing. Indicates I rated book at 4 stars, 4.5 stars, or 5 stars. Specific book by an author. A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter. Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, edited by Wes Davis. Introduction to Spanish Poetry, edited by Eugenio Florit. Mentors, Muses and Monsters, edited by Elizabeth Benedict. Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, edited by Cecilia Vicuña. Writing with Intent: Ess...

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On Translating Poetry – werdivory

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Dreaming another way to be. On Writing, Editing. The original must course for long periods through the translator’s ears and mind and body, only to cast often quite suddenly into the target language, at which point it adapts to and occasionally stretches the gestalt and rhythms of that idiom. And that idiom must be full of breath and life. I suppose all translators are alchemists at heart. To translate is to change. Lori M. Carlson. As a reader of translations, I feel cheated if the translator doesn’t co...

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On Poetry – werdivory

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Dreaming another way to be. On Writing, Editing. You will never be alone with a Poet in your pocket. Poetry has saved me from oblivion, from forgetting, and from walking the earth as a stranger. If ‘what is a poem? Ever has a definitive answer, I don’t know that I’d like to write poems anymore. A poet, a maker of things, using the very language that was designed to control, obfuscate, curse, becomes his own mother. I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream. I believe poetr...

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On Writing, Editing – werdivory

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Dreaming another way to be. On Writing, Editing. On Writing, Editing. If you’re rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world’s stories should be told from many different perspectives. Any writer who knows what he’s doing, isn’t doing very much. The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. Editing isn’t just correcting what’s wrong. It’s also improving what’s right. Language, for the individual consciousness, l...

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Pqw – werdivory

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Dreaming another way to be. On Writing, Editing. December 18, 2016. Recent poets of interest. Wasn’t sure how to briefly define this group, which consists of poets who’ve written poems that I ran across after the election, and have been taking comfort in. American science writer, poet. American poet; born 1951. Mexicano architect, art critic, poet; born 1951. Lisa M. Bradley. Tejana poet and novelist; {@cafenowhere}. 1925 1974, Mexicana ambassador, journalist, essayist, poet. Ber Grin (Itsik Grinberg).

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Poem: friendsgiving – werdivory

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Dreaming another way to be. On Writing, Editing. November 24, 2016. Plants in pots, in my household and not. Rivers I have loved. Mountains, near and far. Having had relationships with 2 grandparents. Heidi (c. 1976 1994). Having known Paul W (1968 1993). Salamanders in the Smokies. The kindness of strangers. Serendipity / synchronicity / surprise. This entry was posted in entanglement. Recent poets of interest →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).

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The Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing & Translation: Weblog: February 2015

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The Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation: Weblog. Thursday, February 26, 2015. Davis in San Pedro River Review. Faculty member Geffrey Davis. Has two new poems in the spring 2015 "Fathers" issue of San Pedro River Review. Pick up your copy to read "What I Mean When I Say Harmony" and "From the Unsent Letters: Variations on Longing," the latter co-written with F. Douglas Brown. Posted by Creative Writing. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Jabaily-Blackburn to Appear on Jeopardy! Can universit...

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Begotten — F. Douglas Brown

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Sandra Bland Reading Series. Sandra Bland Reading Series. Collaboration with Geffrey Davis. This collection also contains a chapbook by Enid Shomer. And a chapbook co-written by brothers Anders and Kai Carlson-Wee. This is the third volume in the Floodgate Poetry Series, an annual series of books collecting three chapbooks by three poets in a single volume, edited by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum. Chapbooks short books under 40 pages arose when printed books became affordable in the 16th century. Have I done a...