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thirty years on…. | Jack Sonni
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Thirty years on…. The idea of me playing in his band never came up. This year will mark the 30th anniversary of not only the high point of my musical career, but of Dire Straits’,. Brothers In Arms,. An album I’m proud to have been part of making. This summer, I imagine there will be a lot of hoopla around the 30 year marking of Live Aid, which I am also proud to have performed at with the band. The decision to leave Fordham behind and hit the road took all of about 10 seconds. Set in the Appalachia coal...
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Poet Fan Ogilvie’s Reflections On ‘A Strange Catechism’ | Justen Ahren
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Poet Fan Ogilvie’s Reflections On ‘A Strange Catechism’. June 26, 2015. 8220;In the title poem. He [Justen Ahren] writes one of the most beautiful lines in contemporary poetry:. To learn down the sound of my love for God into the dark of my body. 8211;to read more of Fan Ogilvie’s take on A Strange Catechism. Poetry and Visual Art. On Devotion: Cultivating a Creative Life. Subscribe to justenahren.com. Enter your email address:. On Devotion: Cultivating a Creative Life. Poetry and Visual Art.
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Upcoming Events » Martha Hall Kelly
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Martha Hall Kelly » Author. The Decatur Book Festival: Author Panel with Lynn Cullen, author of. Mrs Poe, Twains End. September 3, 2016. Winter Park, Florida. Saturday October 1, 2016. Writer’s Block Bookstore. October 2o, 2016. Fairfield Public Library: Lilac Girls Talk and Signing. October 22, 2016. The Darien Public Library. Lilac Girls talk and signing. October 23, 2016. 2:00 The Gunn Memorial Library,. Miami Beach, Florida. November 9, 2016. November 10, 2016. November 13, 2016. Boca Raton, Florida.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: October 2014
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. October 2014 Poetry Challenge Winner. Zinnias (Photo ©. The October Poetry Challenge was judged by Mary Jo Balistreri, whose poem was used as the prompt this month. She selected "Beautiful Things," by Jenene Ravesloot, who is winner for the second consecutive month. Fresh-cut stiff stemmed zinnias straight from. The garden, dome-shaped yellow zinnias, multi-. Colored zinnias, red zinnias with single rows. In a tall glass vase. Photo of Grandmoth...
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: June 2015
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Monday, June 29, 2015. June 2015 Challenge Winner - A River Poem. Charlotte Digregorio, the judge for the June Poetry Challenge selected “Flow, River, Flow” by Carole Mertz as the winning poem. Mertz interpreted “river poem” in a unique and creative way. Flow, River, Flow. I haven’t ridden on swift-flowing rafts,. But I’ve been swept along in waters. Splayed by many a writer’s crafts. I’ve travelled torrents in books. As varied and bright. As my rich reading nooks. Check ...
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: February 2015
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. My American University Coffee Mug. Balistreri picked “Barista:” by Caroline Johnson as winner. Henry says the Lakota called it black medicine. I can imagine Black Elk drinking from a gourd,. Huddling around a teepee with a peace pipe. Sometime in July when the cherries are ripe. Henry looks at each customer with green eyes. Full of gourmet hot chocolate and caramel mochas. He moves his arms across the espresso machine,. The line is long:.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: August 2014
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Thursday, August 28, 2014. Finally a Winner - A Poem about an Iconic Structure. Richard had commented in his email, “. Here is my poem based on the iconic churches of St. Denis and Chartres, a suggestion of the inspiration for Gothic architecture, with its opening up of space and light, replacing Romanesque.” Here is his poem:. The Abbot in Autumn. Abbot Suger surely stood. Beneath an aisle of ancient trees. And marveled at its height,. Its rise and great limbs arching.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: April 2015
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. April 2015 Poetry Challenge Winner - a Bee Poem. The judge for the April, selected a haiku as the winning poem. Congratulations to Georgiann Foley! Sun slips as crowned thistle sways. Lulls bumblebee silent still. Clinging to purple heaven. Georgiann Foley is the owner of this poem. Please do not copy and distribute it without her permission. Bumblebee silent still . Still clinging to purple heaven,. DuPage Arts Life,. And Seeding the Snow.
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge: July Challenge Winner - An Advice Poem
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Wilda Morris's Poetry Challenge. Friday, July 31, 2015. July Challenge Winner - An Advice Poem. The winning poem in the July Poetry Challenge uses a metaphor from soccer to advise a young poet. It is a fairly complex metaphor, but then soccer and the writing of poetry are complex, each in its own way. Here is the winning poem:. Advice to a Young Poet. You don’t have to love. But know it will be your. Hit readers with the shine. Of new currency, or tarnish. The dank water of a well. You feel it,. The judg...
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Sitting with Justen Ahren | Justen Ahren
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Sitting with Justen Ahren. October 28, 2014. An Interview with Justen Ahren. By North Carolina author Renee Johnson. The interview was originally posted at Renee Johnson Writes. Demystifying the Monastic Approach to Writing, An Interview by Renee Johnson. Subscribe to justenahren.com. Enter your email address:. On Devotion: Cultivating a Creative Life. Poet Fan Ogilvie’s Reflections On ‘A Strange Catechism’. Poetry and Visual Art. Sitting with Justen Ahren. The Noepe Center for Literary Arts.
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