December 31st, 2013 by admin
“Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have...
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December 13th, 2013 by admin
I am Homeland Twelve Korean-American Poets Edited by Yearn Hong Choi New from Poetic Matrix Press Available on our website By Doo Hyun Chung An Empty Tomb In the midst of fire shell of the Korean War, Vanished My father, missing No traces to his death...
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November 19th, 2013 by admin
Touch Red Touch red Ouch Touching red is like knowing you But can you touch red at all? Is it the red of the red Or the red of the thing That makes touching red Touching red? The bright and the blare And the...
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October 25th, 2013 by admin
Buffalo Girl (Annie) Knew a chic named Annie Who wrote poetry Later taught herself to play Guitar and discovered she was Pretty good at it I met her in a coffeehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn One night, when I was reading And looking to score some Boodah...
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September 14th, 2013 by admin
I found this article recently and it seemed to speak to what we as poets might be up to even though we often don't know what we are up to and may not even understand our own words until sometime later. I offer it and elicit your comments. There might...
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August 14th, 2013 by admin
In Malala's Spring Dream the pond is a dark blossom unfolding. If she were to move to the window in the dream, there would be white lilies thru blinds, suspended instead of a moon. Fog lips on roots and willows filtering into dreams of swans....
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August 12th, 2013 by admin
When I was Young and Proud When I was young and proud owner of a lawn it would have caused offense. But now, singing dandelions innocently declare summer's height while...
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July 26th, 2013 by admin
Men and Women I've Kissed Sometime during my second year at college, Eva comes to a party at our apartment while her boyfriend was studying. I fall behind the couch and she falls on top of me. When...
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July 23rd, 2013 by admin
From the Empress Hsi-Ling-Shi The mulberries will soon bear white fruit. On thin branches silkworms feed on heartshaped leaves. In early summer they will spin their silken threads, spin silk threads as a gift. We will take the coccoons, boil them, and...
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July 15th, 2013 by admin
Kings River Canyon This old, bald pine has to know it's dying. Maybe it over heard the whispers of evergreens, growing on these glacier-sheered cliffs, or maybe the pine knows it intuitively as it knows yearly it has to manage to squeeze out a thin ring...
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July 11th, 2013 by admin
"What another would have done as well, do not do it. What another would have said as well or written as well, do not say or write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself." --Andre Gide ...
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June 25th, 2013 by admin
Morning, River Camp (Desolations and Gray Canyons, Green River) It is early yet—the hour of the gray dawn. All night we have slept on the smooth thigh of the sand. Our first waking breath is of air scrubbed clean by sage and sun, tamarisks and swift water....
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June 20th, 2013 by admin
"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning." – James Dickey...
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June 20th, 2013 by admin
Bells No bells ringing no incense burning no one but you. No spoken sounds no embracing arms no one else but you. Inner voices buzzing deepening breathing you’re coming to you. With or without stilling something is flowing. You’re entering a cavern...
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June 7th, 2013 by admin
Welcome to our new blog, Poet's Comments into the World. Continuing the on-going commentary by poets and others on poetry, contemporary culture and the world. James Downs, Associate Editor, proposed this for poets and readers of poetry to have a place...
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June 7th, 2013 by admin
Welcome to our new re-visioned website and this our latest version of our poetry journal. We started this in the late 90s as an occasional mail-out newsletter, changed to a twice yearly on-line version in the mid 2000s and now we change again to a blog...
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February 13th, 2013 by admin
-for devon last night the pond was the size of a small hat ten or fifteen of you holding on enough water only to cover your back and keep the sun off foot prints of coon and coyote dog and deer and small bird circling down from reed covered banks across...
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February 13th, 2013 by admin
"These poems ring with clarity, restraint and humanity. My admiration for Shadab Zeest Hashmi's poetry continues to grow." — Sam Hamill Shadab's poetry does what some commentators over the years say is impossible; to write extraordinary poetry...
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January 4th, 2013 by admin
Kiirsti Peterson studied at the University of Barcelona, Spain in the summer of 2012 and had the opportunity of seeing the work of the amazing architect and builder Antoni Gaudí. Here are a few of the photos she took. [caption id="attachment_17" align="aligncenter"...
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January 4th, 2013 by admin
Over the course of my working life I have joined two unions the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Service Employees International Union where at one point I was on the contract negotiating team. In management positions I have manged non-union...
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