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AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS
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On Friday, 9/26 from Noon - 2 pm, The Emily Dickinson Museum Poetry Discussion Group*** opens it's season with their first meeting which will explore "Metaphors of Enclosure and Concepts of Self in Emily Dickinson's Poetry."
***The group meets every third Friday from September thru May (except December).
Further details are available @ emilydickinsonmuseum.org
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NEW YORK CITY
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===== On Saturday, 9/27 @ 11 am
POETS HOUSE presents a workshop for children entitled Our Earth, Our Sky. This workshop will explore the magic and mystery of poetry. Children will write poems inspired by the earth and sky. Then their work will be celebrated through narration, music and mime. Each child will take their poems home in an earth/sky box.
For more info log on to poetshouse.org
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
POETRY CHALLENGE 18
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CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
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Use the following word group to write a poem: grandfather, village, silver, rain.
CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
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Use the following word group to write a poem: grandfather, village, silver, rain.
TAKING CHALLENGE 17
Newspaper headline taken from the Columbus Dispatch on 9/11/2014
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MISPLACED PRIORITY
just thinking
where i
would be today
certainly not destitute
with a sorrow that
won't quit
if
i only knew then
what i know now would have
taken the back door
out of your life
running like i just
stole something valuable
you not who i thought
you were
not worthy
of worship
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MISPLACED PRIORITY
just thinking
where i
would be today
certainly not destitute
with a sorrow that
won't quit
if
i only knew then
what i know now would havetaken the back door
out of your life
running like i just
stole something valuable
you not who i thought
you were
not worthy
of worship
THIS JUST IN...
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NEW YORK CITY
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POETS HOUSE presents Back to School: Workshops, Classes & More.
Sign up for a class this fall and rediscover your life and language.
Choose from 6 weeks, 3 weeks, or a 1 day workshop + a Special Workshop For Teens.
These workshops and classes are open to all writers - no applications needed, but registration is required.
LOG ON TO poetshouse.org FOR DETAILS
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
POETIC BIRTHDAY
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BORN ON THIS DAY
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1883 - WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, Poet/Writer, in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Williams received his primary education in Rutherford, until 1897, at which time he studied in Paris and New York City.
In 1902, having passed a special examination, he was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1906. He did internships at a few hospitals,and eventually studied advanced pediatrics.
Although his primary occupation was as a family doctor, Williams had a successful literary career as a poet and writer. He started writing poetry in high school, and published his first book of poems in 1909.
Williams is strongly associated with the American modernist movement in literature and saw his poetic project as distinctly an American one; he sought to renew language through the fresh, raw idiom that grew out of American culture.
He sought to invent an entirely fresh and uniquely American form of poetry whose subject matter centered on everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people.
In his later years, Williams mentored and influenced many younger poets, including a most dynamic relationship with fellow New Jersey poet, Allen Ginsburg.
Williams had an especially significant influence on many of the American literary movements of the 1950s.
He has received numerous awards and honors for his literary achievements throughout his life.
The Poetry Society of America continues to honor William Carlos Williams today, by presenting an annual award in his name for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press.
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For more comprehensive info on William Carlos Williams, please Google search his name and read all relevant entries.
To read his poetry log on to poets.org
BORN ON THIS DAY
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1883 - WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, Poet/Writer, in Rutherford, New Jersey.
Williams received his primary education in Rutherford, until 1897, at which time he studied in Paris and New York City.
In 1902, having passed a special examination, he was admitted to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, from which he graduated in 1906. He did internships at a few hospitals,and eventually studied advanced pediatrics.
Although his primary occupation was as a family doctor, Williams had a successful literary career as a poet and writer. He started writing poetry in high school, and published his first book of poems in 1909.
Williams is strongly associated with the American modernist movement in literature and saw his poetic project as distinctly an American one; he sought to renew language through the fresh, raw idiom that grew out of American culture.
He sought to invent an entirely fresh and uniquely American form of poetry whose subject matter centered on everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people.
In his later years, Williams mentored and influenced many younger poets, including a most dynamic relationship with fellow New Jersey poet, Allen Ginsburg.
Williams had an especially significant influence on many of the American literary movements of the 1950s.
He has received numerous awards and honors for his literary achievements throughout his life.
The Poetry Society of America continues to honor William Carlos Williams today, by presenting an annual award in his name for the best book of poetry published by a small, non-profit or university press.
For more comprehensive info on William Carlos Williams, please Google search his name and read all relevant entries.
To read his poetry log on to poets.org
Thursday, September 11, 2014
POETRY CHALLENGE 17
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CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
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Write a poem using a headline from today's newspaper as your title.
CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
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Write a poem using a headline from today's newspaper as your title.
TAKING CHALLENGE 16
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STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
(FOR MOTHER)
at twilight i spy
a morning star
way up high
sparkling like a
diamond afloat
in the sky
it was
jade or aqua
sometimes reddish
standing out among
the luminaries
of heaven
dancing around
them
climbing above
them
as it were
a sight to behold like
nothing my
eyes has seen before
was it
could it
be her
that star
was mother
twinkle twinkle like
no other
i wonder
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
(FOR MOTHER)
at twilight i spy
a morning star
way up high
sparkling like a
diamond afloat
in the skyit was
jade or aqua
sometimes reddish
standing out among
the luminaries
of heaven
dancing around
them
climbing above
them
as it were
a sight to behold like
nothing my
eyes has seen before
was it
could it
be her
that star
was mother
twinkle twinkle like
no other
i wonder
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