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 Jared Paul arrested at the Republican National Convention: As you may already know, I was arrested at the Republican National Convention last month. A few friends and I were in a park listening to the Take Back Labor Day concert in St. Paul when several hundr...
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Poetrydances.com first newsletter (GP writers head the list!): Hot off the press update from poetrydances.com-the site that discovers and links to great user submitted poetry from across the Internet-
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Two Contests/Nine Winners: A flower and a Bee - This was the theme for GP's September Haiku Contest. We had a tie for the first spot won by both Read More...
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PD30 Day 30: My Final Say: Lie with pride. Embrace meter, it can do great things for you, but discard it frequently and without regret. Let poetry help you relieve your pain and work through your emotions. Everybody gets the bl...
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GotPoetry Live RESTARTS (!) OCTOBER 14TH!: As most of you know, we suspended our series of 2.5 years in July to search for a new venue, and on October 14, we restart at our spanking new home, Blue State Coffee on Thayer Street in Providence. ...
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| RI - GotPoetry Live restarts Tuedsay 10-14 at 7:30: GotPoetry Live restarts next Tuedsay, October 14, at 7:30 at Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer Street in Providence! The redoubtable Adam Stone will be our feature.
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 | In the Traditional Media
Boy feeds animals to crocodile in Australia zoo break-in: In the Traditional News: A seven-year-old boy broke into a popular Outback zoo, fed a string of animals to the resident crocodile and bashed several lizards to death with a rock, the zoo's director sa...
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Staff Picks for October 2008!: Seems like it is the most easy thing to do, choosing a poem/poet/blog for the staff picks. But it is not. Staff and curators peruse through the finished section of 21,000 odd poems we have and here ar...
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 | Zero Point Zero
Zero Point Zero: From Page to Stage -- How Text Reflects Performance: In looking back over the columns I've written over the years, I realize that I've never really addressed myself to the question of how what goes on the page reflects what comes out of my mouth on the ...
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 | Got Haiku
I often write of trains: Many think of haiku as a short poetic form whose subject matter typically pertains to nature. Urban drone that I am, I confess to being nature-impaired: I really wouldn't know a hawk from a handsaw. ...
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 | Poetry Is Doomed
Poetry Is Doomed #15: The Mail Bag Remix: (Wherein the author takes your missives and dismisses them handily with wit, keen insight and a reference to alien invasions.)
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 | Intl Review of Bad Children's Books
Playing At Beggars: It is now two years that the Review has been here at GotPoetry, happily being belligerent every few weeks. So I think its time to bring out one of the first bad kid’s books I ever bought for the col...
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 | The Other Side of the Fence
2008 National Poetry Slam Finals: This is a brief update about the National Poetry Slam going on this week in Madison, WI....
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 | Aisle 9
Two events that needed to be documented by an objective observer: I was privileged in early May then early July to bear witness to the following events. The two essays you are about to read are mostly true....
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 | Grace in the Shadow of the Big Tree
Grace in the Shadow of the Big Tree - Chapter 45: And as we listened, the last piece of grass in all of Ohio named itself in alien noises and in painful quiet, and in the shifting of things, and in bare cupboards. Going into town was necessary....
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