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There’s still time! | Poems for Obama
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A Canadian gift to the 44th President. There’s still time! If the first round of judging has begun without your work–we still really want it! I wish we could transmit the joy and wonder of reading these varied voices of Canada. Every kind of poetry is coming in, haiku to song lyrics, sonnets to free verse. The final judges will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose just 49 pieces that, fitted together, will give President Obama the experience of meeting the complete Canadian. Mr Obama is v...
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Send in your poems! | Poems for Obama
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A Canadian gift to the 44th President. Send in your poems! I’m up to my ears in poems! Poems from the North, poems from the West, poems from the East, and poems from the Middle. Poems from poets laureate, poems from the famous and infamous, poems from people who’ve been very quiet until now. We’ll have a beautiful and varied collection to send the Prez, no doubt about that. First round of selection. Is in Powell River this weekend, February 9 and 10. Thus far, what’s come to mind is something like. On Fe...
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Dear Poet: A message from Kaimana | Poems for Obama
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A Canadian gift to the 44th President. Dear Poet: A message from Kaimana. The blog is up, the poems are rolling in from the famous, infamous, and emerging poets of this land, and we’re on the way to collecting 49 quintessentially Canadian poems to the 44th president of the US! Mr Obama will receive a taste of the collection on Inauguration Day, but, since it will take him a while to recuperate from attending ten inaugural balls anyway, collection will continue to the end of January. Take this one as an e...
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The Window is Closing! | Poems for Obama
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A Canadian gift to the 44th President. The Window is Closing! Happy to announce that over two hundred poems by 70 poets have come in thus far for possible inclusion in “Parallel: 49 Canadian Poets Speak to Obama.” We are starting to like the title, not least because parallel lines by definition do not meet. If one thing is clear from this stack of fine creativity before me, it is that Canadians are a unique people. On February 25, 2009 at 7:20 pm Leave a Comment. To TrackBack this entry is:. You are comm...
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An Update on our Progress | Poems for Obama
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A Canadian gift to the 44th President. An Update on our Progress. Poems are already starting to roll in! Here’s an update from Kaimana Wolff. Well, we’ve notified 13 major newspapers, the entire journalism world north of 60, Canadian University Papers, and 110 poets and counting so far. This is going to take all week, turning eyes into burning lumps of coal. Behold, some fabulous stuff is beginning to roll in! Send us your poems, people! On January 15, 2009 at 9:36 pm Leave a Comment. Mt Impri: Katje van...
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Titles and Guidelines | Poems for Obama
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A Canadian gift to the 44th President. As of today, 456 poets across Canada and up and down have been individually invited to join this project. And how the lines are rolling in! This is becoming a feasible and exciting project, wordwrights pull up a pen or belly up to the keyboard, why don’t you? Do poems have to be on any particular subject (like shudder politics)? Hmmthat description reminds me of how Canadians look on our wintry streets rounded bundles of down jackets over layers of warm clothes....