Daily Archives: Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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Poetry Super Highway Open Reading Sunday, December 6, 2009

From PSH’s website:

“Worldwide Open Reading
Sunday, December 6 2009 @ 2:00 pm PDT/5:00 pm EDT
Call in and read your poetry, open mic style. No content or style restrictions. Share details about your local poetry community with our listeners. We want to hear you!

Our Live events are hosted through BlogTalk Radio and can be accessed during the event by visiting http://blogtalkradio.com/psh and clicking on the “Click to Listen” button.

You can listen to the shows through your web browser as well as call in and ask questions live through by dialing (646) 716-7362 during the live broadcast.”
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Literally, poets from all over the world have read on these broadcasts. You know yours truly will be dialing in and reading. I encourage any poet who wants to and who can read to join in!

To check out Poetry Super Highway or find out more, visit:

http://poetrysuperhighway.com/PoetLinks.html

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Joly Farr And Colin Martin Feature at First Draft on Friday, November 20!

Joly Farr and Colin Martin feature at Writer’s Block Poetry First Draft Poetry Night on Friday, November 20 at 8:00 PM!

I’ll let the host of First Draft, Joanna Schroeder, tell you more about Farr and Martin:


“Jory is a talented and dynamic poet who reads his words and then allows Colin to tranform their feeling into music. It is poetry in musical motion with these two, and they are sure to give us an engaging and entertaining feature of new poetic material and musical response.”

This, as always, will be followed by the traditional First Draft open mic.

First Draft is a poetry night where new poems and new poets are always welcome. Cover is $3 for the night. Come on out and share your *new* poetry — and be prepared for an awesome feature!

For more info about Writer’s Block’s First Draft Night, check out:

http://writersblockpoetry.rewritingovid.net/FirstDraftOpenMic.php

http://community.livejournal.com/wbpoetry

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I, Too, Say Amen

Read Write Word # 23

This poem was written for Read Write Word Prompt #101: P-P-P-Poetry. This is a Wordle prompt in which all of the words begin with the letter P. I used some of the words and added a few of my own in this poem, which is inspired by William Blake (the quote in the poem is from his work “Proverbs of Hell”), Langston Hughes (“I, Too, Sing America”), and one of my own poems that I wrote earlier this year. Enjoy!

-Nicole
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I, too, say Amen.

I am having an early Sunday morning vision
of prophecy:
our bodies slapping together,
sweat running in rivers and casting shattered tributaries
off of our skins. We are somewhere
sequestered, and yet more sacred than the backseat
of my car. We sing Hallelujahs, composed in the key of carnal –
a polyglot of grunt, hiss, and shuddering breath
against a harmony of moan,
countermelodies of our whispered directions, and a
climax of screams in fortissimo. We sound
antiphons to each other, utterances in counterpoint
as we co-create again and again. This
is worship – and I, too, say
Amen.
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