Poetry News:
— There is little that can make us as acutely conscious of the fact that we are still alive as being shown the body of someone who is dead —
— Start a Notebook on Poets.org - 30 Ways To Celebrate National Poetry Month —
— “if anything the poem and video are poking fun at [...]
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Poetry News:
— A Penis-shortening Device Described by the 13th Century Poet Rumi —
— Saginaw, Mich., might be sagging but we can admire it for producing poet and teacher Theodore Roethke, and for preserving his boyhood home —
— Books news: Earliest “Howl” tape uncovered at Reed —
— Brooklyn-based poet Tom Sleigh has won the $100,000 US [...]
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Family History of Mary Ziemba Korte
“John and Kathryn Sosinska, my grandparents on my mother’s side of the family, originally came from Germany. That is the farthest back I can remember since no one has recorded any information.
John and Kathryn Sosinska were both born in Germany and lived there in the early 1800’s. On August 3, [...]
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Well I was saddened to read the news about the passing of Shaky Jake Woods.
He was a bit “off” but a kind person and once when I was a musician, before a gig in Ann Arbor, my band jammed with him outside. Kind of. He didn’t think tuning a guitar was important. Nor having [...]
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Poetry News:
— Poetry as Right-Hemispheric Language —
— “There certainly isn”™t enough genuine talent for us to take notice” —
— Poet John Donne was a compulsive conceit practitioner —
— The correspondence started after Schillaci submitted poems for publication in a now-defunct University of New Hampshire literary magazine —
— This remarkable true story is recounted in a [...]
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