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Poetry is memoir, too

Poetry doesn’t seem at all popular to the general reading public these days yet I know many people write it. The Twitter world is filled with writers of sparse Japanese-style poems like haiku and tanka, perfect for 140-character posts – … Continue reading

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100 Thousand Poets (and me) for Change

Last week Saturday I was one of a great many poets and musicians at the St. Louis event held for the second annual worldwide 100 Thousand Poets for Change. There were over 800 such events held in over 115 countries including Egypt, Afghanistan, … Continue reading

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