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Yours Was the First Face

08.14.09 Posted in Observation, today's words by

Kim Klugh lives in Lancaster PA with her husband. She is the mother of three grown children and a writer with credits in the Intelligencer Journal, BusinessWoman, “b” magazine, Susquehanna Life, Central PA Magazine, and Lancaster City Living. One of her essays will be included in the anthology, My Dad Is My Hero (Adams Media, […]


undiscovered

08.13.09 Posted in Observation, today's words by

We’ve already discovered that Karen Schindler’s work is very visual (see Coming Home in the poemblog). Here we get to see some of her process: we have the image that inspired the poem! Read and look and find your own undiscovered image hiding in your world to write about. And then take a look at […]


In Memory of Edith Wharton

08.12.09 Posted in dedication, today's words by

Edith Wharton died on August 11, 1937 in France. Wharton was an American writer whose specialty was charting the treacherous currents of elite society, the dynamics of money and class, the tension of the individual railing against the collective. She is associated particularly with early 1900s New York society as its era was ending. Her […]


A Birth

08.11.09 Posted in Observation, today's words by

John Lavan is a poet living in the north of England who has been creating poetry for the last five years, with some success in competitions and in publishing. His poems are inspired by people and events in life, not by any fanciful flights. He believes that every person has a unique, tender soft spot […]


Narrator

08.10.09 Posted in today's words, vox poetica originals by

Narrator By Annmarie Lockhart You know that I was never meant for mute. My voice was meant to fly, my words were meant to sing, and I was meant to be the stream of consciousness that moves the story from beginning to end and bends its babble through all the twists and turns along the […]


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