Poetry News:
- — Poets Speak Out —
- — We want to believe the omission was related to space and not because city leaders thought it was too gay —
- — In 1923, Alfred A. Knopf published the first book of poems by Wallace Stevens —
- — Take 20-minute trip to poet’s birthplace —
- — The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova once said her country silences poets by sending them to a gulag, while America silences poets by ignoring them —
Pals with work up now at storysouth:
J Lynn Laughlin’s story at StorySouth
3 poems by Susan Meyers at storysouth
Also do you guys know about the dead mule? (It was [really] dead for a while but has been back for a long time I guess and I didn’t know that.)
Cliff nominated me as a thinking blogger. That is kind, thanks. 
Passing it on:
Emperor of Ice-Cream Cakes: Poems Are Jokes
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