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Notes on Rane Arroyo’s The Roswell Poems

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Thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here and want to keep up on poetry and 32 Poems, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. In Charlottesville the other weekend, I had the pleasure of reading Rane Arroyo’s
The Roswell Poems published by WordFarm press.
The first question that popped into my mind was whether […]

Galway Kinnell at GWU

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Sarah Browning rocks for organizing the Split this Rock Poetry Festival. Here’s Galway reading Paul Celan’s “Black Milk of Daybreak” at GWU.
Thanks for VRZHU for sharing this video.

Mark Doty Reads Walt Whitman

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Thanks for VRZHU blog for pointing out this video of Mark Doty reading Walt Whitman. See? Poetry distributed via video. It’s the future.

Anti- from Steve Schroeder

Posted by deborah

Another magazine to add to your radar is Anti-.
Online poetry magazines can publish in nontraditional ways and in however-the-heck-they-want ways. NoTell Motel features a poet a week with one poem appearing each day. Verse Daily reprints a poem every day. Anti-, edited by Steven Schroeder, publishes poetry in downloadable PDF chapbooks. The publication also […]

Busy Bees

Posted by deborah

At the Virginia Discovery Museum in Charlottesville, we saw bees doing their bee thing. Their hive was under thick plastic, and a tube ran from the hive to the outdoors. A two-year-old sat next to the tube and pulled and pulled while his mother tried to get him to stop. The plastic tube moved back […]

Thanks to Google, I Spent This Weekend in Charlottesville

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We planned to head out after work and drive down to Charlottesville for the Virginia Festival of the Book. I emailed a poet I know from 32 and said I was on my way out the door. He kindly emailed me back, “it’s NEXT weekend.”
But I did not get that email.
He then called my […]

Split This Rock Poetry Festival

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Sarah Browning has had her hands full planning the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, which continues through Sunday, March 23. The article in the Washington Post about it today sounded incredulous that there are, first of all, 250 poets in the world. The article also sounded amazed that 250 people paid $80 to attend the […]

Delaware Poetry Review

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Add another online magazine to your poetry radar. The Delaware Poetry Review makes a splash with its new issue.

7 Things About Deborah

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Gosh, that title sounds so narcissistic. However, Reality Writes tagged me to write 7 things about myself, so here I go:

I hosted a radio show called “8 Pairs of Don Alphonso’s Tweezers.”
With PositiveForce, I used to organize rock concerts to raise money for causes such as victims of the El Salvadoran […]

32 Poems May Need YOU

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The only way to expand the magazine and accomplish some of my goals for 32 Poems is to get help. That’s where you may come into the picture.
We’re looking for a web-savvy poet interested in working on our magazine. Preferably, you are a subscriber, you have read many issues of the magazine and have magazine […]