Month: April 2011
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Centos!
Since writing my Robert Lowell/Elizabeth Bishop centos last year, I’ve had a fondness for the form. Now, Danielle Pafunda is hosting a National Poetry Month Cento Contest! The top post lists the guidelines and has links to the poetry lines that are to be used in crafting your cento. Then the entrants’ centos follow, in […]
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“Remembrance–mighty word.”*
I’ve had an interesting enough life, I think. But I’ve never had that impulse before, the almost visceral drive to document my life in prose. The memoir. You could argue that’s what I do here, but I think of this as a selection of very loose-jointed, random snapshots. I get it now. Though it’s not […]
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The Big Poetry Giveaway 2011!
* A thousand thanks to Kelli Russell Agodon for once again spearheading that bonanza of poetry goodness, the Big Poetry Giveaway. Be sure to travel to her blog to see the list of all the other participants — generosity abounds! Last year I gave away a couple books and a subscription. This year I will […]
Marie Gauthier 