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Poetry Elect
Above is a picture of our President Elect clutching a book of Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems. Nice to see a president at least in the company of literature. I’m happy we elected a person who as candidate championed the power of words.
The book looks unopened and was probably a gift, but no doubt Mr. Obama [...]
Posted: November 18th, 2008 under poetry.
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A poetry challenge
At the Guardian, John Hartley Williams posed a poetry challenge. Essentially, the assignment was to fracture a proverb and combine it in a poem with at least seven of the following words: beat, mother, fashion, ghost, pool, dance, disturb, knife, croak, shimmer.
The contest caught my fancy, and I gave it a try. I might have [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2007 under poetry.
Comments: 2