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How can we write about, recommend and review poetry, when it's so subjective? How can we learn more as readers, or educate those who don't consider themselves "poetry people?"
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Attention, poets! Please submit to my blogzine. 2 Replies
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Author Comment by Jason JG Carnrike on April 16, 2013 at 11:40am -
Hello all. If anyone is interested in submitting a poem for the Poem of the Week segment at my author blog, you can submit by clicking here, or send me an email to jasonJGcarnrike@gmail.com with the relevant information.
Thanks!
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Author Comment by Helen Ingram on April 1, 2013 at 4:00pm -
My poetry book 'Love, Hurt And Loss A Collection Of Poetry' By Helen Ingram will be free on May 4thThe book can be purchased on Amazon and the format is Kindle Edition
I’m a new poetry author on the Kindle book scene; although my work is self-published. My work has been through strict editorial processes to ensure this product is of high standard. I'm a poet from the UK who has been writing poetry for over six years now, probably more. I am a very creative person, who was brought up in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire then went to Staffordshire University to obtain my BA Fine Art Degree, before returning back to Cheshunt in 2010. I am a mother and a wife. This book uses a varied style, of different poetry approaches of form and rhyme. This poetry is not like the ones you read at school. I don't know about you but for more poetry should be enjoyable and not be like a lesson in literature but more fun and light hearted. I first started writing poetry at of sixteen as part of English literature qualification this was entitled 'What Is A Bully' which was published in 'Future Voices from Hertfordshire' by the company Forward Poetry. After writing this I was sold. At first when I started writing I was just letting things that frustrated me onto the page without realizing it, that I was actually writing poetry. Such things that frustrated me at the time were relationships waiting for ‘Mr. Right’ to come along and the arguments that come with this. How my family winds me up and the loss of both of my grandpa’s in the same year. I also had friends that were being sexually harassed that lend to the poem 'Frozen.’ These are some of the themes that are represented throughout my poetry book. Such other themes include regret, loss, hurt, and sex. The theme of sex is represented in a clean way as it’s not direct in like here's a penis and vagina. It is more sensual and written in a metaphoric sense. Like penetration being described as:'Sliding up and down, like a rabbit peeping in and out of a hole,' An extract from 'Adore'The poetry book enables the reader to reflect and relate on their own life. This poetry book is already available on Amazon; just enter ‘Love, Hurt and Loss’ in the search bar to find my book
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Author Comment by Mary McCray on January 31, 2013 at 11:35pm -
Free eBook weekend on Smashwords!My first eBook promotion!
Get the goods while you can!
February 1-3 (Friday through Saturday)
Steps:
1. Visit: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/247571
2. Add the book to your cart
3. Enter the code in the coupon code field: NA62N
4. Tell me all about it!
About the book:
Why Photographers Commit Suicide explores, in small narratives and lyrical poems, the American idea of Manifest Destiny, particularly as it relates to the next frontier—space exploration. Mary McCray examines the scientific, psychological and spiritual frontiers enmeshed in our very human longing for space, including our dream of a space station on Mars. These poems survey what we gain and what we lose as we progress towards tomorrow, and how we can begin to understand the universal melancholy we seem to cherish for what we leave behind, the lives we have already lived. McCray unearths our feelings about what it means to move ahead and stake out new territory, and what it means to be home.
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Author Comment by Tracy Kauffman on January 21, 2013 at 9:47pm -
A Closer Walk is a book of inspiration spiritual poems. Available only on kindle: http://www.amazon.com/A-Closer-Walk-ebook/dp/B00B3ZWRQQ/ref=sr_1_7?...
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Author Comment by Mary McCray on January 12, 2013 at 6:17pm -
New Years Resolutions for poets:
http://www.bigbangpoetry.com/2013/01/a-poets-new-years-resolutions....
Mary McCray
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Blogger Comment by Amy Pollard on January 9, 2013 at 4:45pm -
Now accepting poetry submissions for Issue #6 of Brevity Poetry Review!
http://brevitypoetryreview.blogspot.com/2013/01/call-for-poetry-sub...
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Comment by Mark Pogodzinski on December 31, 2012 at 11:53am -
No Frills Buffalo PresentsWater From a Toad
Title: Water From a Toad
Author: Frederick E. Whitehead
Publisher: No Frills Buffalo
Retail Price: $10.00 (Paperback)
$3.99 (Kindle, Nook)
Water From A Toad is the fourth collection of poetry from Buffalo native Frederick E. Whitehead. His other collections include Orbs (2011), Songs, Cradle (2009) and Protected by Paradox (2010). His blog is fewhitehead.wordpress.com
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Blogger Comment by Amy Pollard on December 16, 2012 at 12:30pm -
Please follow my poetry blog: http://amyspen.blogspot.com/
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Blogger Comment by Darryl Erentzen on September 20, 2012 at 10:16am -
My new ebook is FREE for one day!(Thursday September 20, 2012)
"a song for the sunset's daughter
" will be free on Amazon on Thursday September 20, 2012.
The book is a collection of haunting lyrical poems about lost love, as well as a few tongue-in-cheek numbers to save the whole thing from morbidity.
It represents a fragment of my poetry spanning the past 26 years, and contains some of my best work, at least in my own opinion.
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Comment by Scarlett Rains on September 17, 2012 at 4:39pm
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Hello everyone. Here's what's happening on 3 of my 6 blogs. Something for everyone! Hop over to my Review and Contest blogs to see it all. Stop in for a visit. :)
PEACE IS BECOMING THE ZEITGEIST, OR SPIRIT OF OUR TIMES
Please, welcome my special guest, author and champion of peace, J. ...
Failing as we Fall, a poem by Scarlett Rains
Don't forget to read how to be a Guest Poet. I believe in supporting my peers when possible.
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