All These Rooms

Our realities were merging to
Copulate and produce beautiful,
Upon the most beautiful
Of babies.
Have I not written enough for you lately?
My sincerest of apologies
Are found in the back pocket
Of my jeans…
Folded and tarnished
At the seams.
And you, my love,
How do you feel like one of
My childhood dreams?
Panned out in a panoramic
Timeline of memories and vacancies -
Spreading out limb […]

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Here’s another interesting post from the yahoo webserve. If anyone wants to get on that list and get lots of emails about creative writing opps, just let me know and I’ll post the necessary info.
Splinter Generation anthology
http://www.splintergeneration.com/index.html
Six young people, unsatisfied with being called Generation Y, Generation 9-11, and countless other ill-fitting monikers, are launching a […]

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Got this off a yahoo listserve for “Creative Writing Opportunities.”
Lake Forest College
Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency Prize
Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW Festival, invites applications for an emerging poet under forty years old, with no major book publication to spend two months (February-March or March-April 2009) in residence at our campus […]

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As per Natalie’s request, this month’s poetry challenge is to write an epic poem… in a month. This feat is impossible enough so there are no additional requirements. Don’t forget, whoever wins gets the coveted whomper stick and also gets to make up next month’s challenge. So bring it, I want to see the next […]

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SCHERZO
After I bring her home
from the shelter I move her crate
to my room, but she pushes her head
into the door and the metal squares
disect the fear on her face
into little frames. I let her out.
She runs to the mirror, catches
sight of herself and stops. She whines,
goes into the closet, then tears out,
desperately searching for her […]

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You know what would be great? If Microsoft could come up with a Word program designed for writing poetry, or at least a poetry setting so that you don’t have to click on “Ignore All” every time you run spell check.

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