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	<title>All These Rooms</title>
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	<description>An online poetry workshop.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>IT STARTS HOW IT ENDS</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/09/it-starts-how-it-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Monthly Challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my contribution to Worsty&#8217;s monthly challenge, which I neglected to revise like I thought I was going to.
It starts how it ends,
or maybe there&#8217;s no beginning, no stopping at all.
Either way, when I walked on all fours
and my dreams at night were lifting my hands, were
faces making faces,
I don&#8217;t think I was what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>call for submissions: New Plains Review</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/call-for-submissions-new-plains-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/call-for-submissions-new-plains-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Call For Submissions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Call for Submissions:
The New Plains Review is seeking stories, essays and poems on the subject of writing workshops and MFA experiences for its fall issue, devoted to the theme of how writers grow&#8211;or not&#8211;in educational settings. Submit original work by email to Editor Douglas Goetsch at douglasgoetsch(at)gmail.com
(replace (at) with @)(as Word attachment or typed into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Untitled (and dangerously new)</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/untitled-and-dangerously-new/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/untitled-and-dangerously-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everyday a fair amount
of risings and of knocking down
still unbending as she wore her crown - the one she did not know before -
she wore and wore and pimped and whored
and went to battle both with and not-so-for that little bourbon body
carried her through the streets and up
and up to touch the tops
of mountains and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>this is a field</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/this-is-a-field/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/this-is-a-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Liz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[nolovernobrothernokeeper. 
In a land where grass won’t grow
this is a field
imagine the grass is knee-high and touching
the grass is the wind tuning
this field.  
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		<title>Ecopoetry anthology seeks submissions</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/ecoanthology/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/ecoanthology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Call For Submissions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anthology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ecopoetry]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[EARTH&#8217;S BODY: AN ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY
Coeditors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street solicit submissions for an international anthology of ecopoetry. We are looking for a wide and varied array of submissions. Our working definition of &#8220;ecopoetry&#8221; is flexible; it includes not only what might be called nature poetry, and not only poetry that focuses on environmental issues, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>lost proverb</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/lost-proverb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/08/lost-proverb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
if your heart turns
to mud
to avoid the bitter glances
of the sun
do not call for it—
tell your tongue to
follow
it down.

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		<title>(a very symmetrical) Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/07/challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/07/challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worsty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Contests]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Monthly Challenge]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[poetry challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want the hallowed whomper stick (TM), you must win the following challenge. And since you are naughty, asymmetrical little (all these) room-mates, I challenge you to write a somehow-symmetrical poem. The symmetry can be something like lines of equal length, number of letters, number of words, etc. Or pick some other type of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>watching the faces</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/07/watchingfaces/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/07/watchingfaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Natalie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Natalie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
watching the faces
in the mirror above the bar
red cheeks underlining shallow eyes
magenta lipstick trying to hide
wrinkled lips
I think up metaphors
to quantify their sadness:
miles of birdless telephone poles
beneath an absent sky,
five unreturned phone calls,
or maybe it’s just one brother
with dreams of scarred elbows.
I don’t know.
but I think that
sadness cannot be quantified. it just pours
out of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No one turns for me.</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/07/nooneturnsforme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/07/nooneturnsforme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>worsty</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Worsty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[worsty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When the whole crowd is circulating such that soon everyone is covered in blood, and I call for him
Fearful Frank! Fearful Frank!
No one turns for me.
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		<title>How do you write a happy poem?</title>
		<link>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/07/how-do-you-write-a-happy-poem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alltheserooms.com/2008/07/how-do-you-write-a-happy-poem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mackenzie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mackenzie]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poets Blogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Without it becoming complete crap? Or just something kind of absurd, surreal? Seriously, I&#8217;m trying to start a poem for the Dorothy poetry prize, because why not, but I keep writing crap.
You guys have any favorite &#8220;happy&#8221; poems that I could read for guidance?
]]></description>
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