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All purrs, she joins meOn the couch for a minuteSpreading her good vibes. This is Kimchi, one of my resident muses. She's a small cat and a big character. The Poetry Friday roundup is at The Miss Rumphius Effect.
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Nightmare Tiny burning embersBlazesFire weatherWarnings/increasedForced evacuationsLA girdsLocation, size, containment, and more Monster winds Fire’s massive scaleWhat do you pack? Source: The Los Angeles Times, accessed 9 January 2025 ***** I made this found poem from words and phrases in headlines and subheadings in the LA Times. I wanted to keep it brief. I'm…
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Using ideas from last week, I created another new poem using headlines from the Sunday New York Times. I'll let it speak for itself. Again I thank the late Lorraine O'Grady for the inspiration. For 2025 I am fortifying myself with, among other things, Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day,…
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Here's a short feature in the Yale Review from a few years back. It concerns the work of the conceptual artist/critic/essayist Lorraine O'Grady, who died last week at the age of 90. Eugenia Bell writes, "Her 1977 work, Cutting Out the New York Times, consists of twenty-six poems made from cut up Sunday editions of…
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Messiah (Christmas Portions) by Mark Doty A little heat caught in gleaming rags, in shrouds of veil, torn and sun-shot swaddlings: over the Methodist roof, two clouds propose a Zion of their own, blazing (colors of tarnish on copper) Read the rest at the Poetry Foundation. **** Here is…
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http://tanitasdavis.com/wp/ I loved this poem when it popped up on Instagram the other day. There are so many footsteps I'd love to hear again, even the early-morning clomps of my mom's Dr. Scholl's sandals as I tried to sleep late way back when. Or the squeaks of our sneakers as my friends and I…
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The Poetry Friday roundup is here. Welcome! Please add your links to the Mr. Linky after David Moody's "Lunch with Laura." David's poem first appeared on Chicken Spaghetti in 2006. He was a Cataloging Librarian at the University of Detroit Mercy, and although I did not know him well, I always appreciated his humorous contributions…
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In past years I've had a great time participating in the Sealey Challenge, in which you read a collection of poetry a day for the month of August. It's a great way to catch up with new work and older poems that you've never read before. Last year, though, I bombed out after two days,…
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Last week I shared a subway ride with this poster from the NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority's long-running "Poetry in Motion" series. It cheered up my travels, and so I am posting its Instagram link. Readers might remember the poem from Kaminsky's collection Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019). The art is by Elisabeth Condon. The Poetry Friday…
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