If you want to hear an awesome night of jazz and poetry, come out to Writer’s Block First Draft Night on Friday, July 18 at 8 PM at Kafe Kerouac!. This month’s First Draft will feature poets reading with a jazz band, so be sure NOT to miss this show! There will also be an open mic, and should you *ahem* want to come and read YOUR poetry, you will have the option to read with OR without music. First Draft Night, hosted by Joanna Schroeder, is a night for NEW POETRY ONLY - stuff that has *never* been read in public before - so come out to hear great new poetry or to read your OWN never before performed work! Cover is $3.
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If you are in the Central Ohio area, I encourage you to come to Say That on July 19 at 7 PM. What is Say That, you ask? Say That is a one night poetry event hosted by Kim Hight, who was a featured poet at Poetry in the Spring this past May at Ohio State University. The feature poet at Say That is none other than Vernell Bristow of Writer’s Block Poetry! Vernell is an awesome poet to hear, and there will be an open mic as well. And by the way, there will be appetizers served. So whether you want to perform, listen to awesome poetry, or BOTH, I would encourage you to come out to this one-night only event! I will be there as well, and I will also have my new chapbook there if you’d like to pick up a copy.
The Details:
What: Say That
Where: Sher Bliss, 1394 Cherry Bottom Road, Gahanna, Ohio 43230
When: July 19 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm (Doors open at 6:30 pm)
Admission: $ 7
Feature Poet: Vernell Bristow
Includes Open Mic
Below are flyers for Say That (should you want to print them and oh, distribute them far and wide):
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Stumble It!
One of my poems, “You Can’t Tell Me”, was published in the July 9th issue of in Word Slaw. Check it out at:
http://wordslaw.blogspot.com/2008/07/you-cant-tell-me-nnicholson.html.
Last month, I was featured as a Favorite Writer on PoetryDances.com. Today, the sitemaster of Poetry Dances sent me an e-mail with a link to their press release for June!
To read the press release, visit:
http://www.pr.com/press-release/93824
-Nicole
My first chapbook, Raven Feathers, is available now! To purchase a copy or see more details, click here or on the Raven’s Wing Press tab at the top of the page.
-Nicole
Two more of my poems, “Vietnam Fire” and “Rain Dancer” were published in the July 2008 issue of Word Catalyst.
To view both poems, visit: http://www.wordcatalystmagazine.com/pages7/nicholsonptry7.html
-Nicole
I participated in Scot Young’s Poetry Challenge #1, which was to listen to Charles Bukowski’s “Bluebird” and then write a poem based on it (prose poetry or flash fiction also included). I contributed “This Bird Has Flown” to the challenge. You can read it here:
-Nicole
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Jun
American Sentence #1
I discovered American Sentences on the blogs of Scot Young and Nathan Moore. The American Sentence is a poetic form created by the late Allen Ginsberg. According to the American Sentences website, they are “haiku-length poems that Allen suggested be limited to 17 syllables, like haiku in Japanese and like the Heart Sutra in Buddhism”. Inspired by Scot and Nathan, I will start composing and posting American Sentences here on Raven’s Wing Poetry. For your reading pleasure this week, I give you American Sentence #1:
Souls connect through fiber optic conduits carrying silent words.
Written 6/27/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.
I am now a member of the Society of Midnight Wanderers! I visited them after reading a mention of them on Paisley’s blog and read some of the work on site..and was intrigued. I requested membership and was extended the invitation today. I should be posting my first poem there soon.
In the meantime, I suggest a visit to their site. There is some fine writing over there.
-Nicole
Raven’s Wing Poetry has been listed on the Favorite Writers page on PoetryDances.com for June 2008. If you’d like to view the whole list of Favorite Writers, go here:
http://www.poetrydances.com/fwjune.htm
I’d also suggest checking out this article in The Courier-Mail (Australia) about Poetry Dances:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23852924-5003418,00.html
-Nicole
“Feline History” was featured for the month of June on PoetryDances.com.
You can see their full list of featured poems for June at:
http://www.poetrydances.com/pdjune.htm
-Nicole
“Hush” was featured today as the Daily Poem on Poetry Friends. To read “Hush”, visit:
http://poetryfriends.blogspot.com/2008/06/poem-by-nicole-nicholson.html
-Nicole
Super Sexy Bootylicious Diva Muse posted a blog review of Raven’s Wing Poetry! To read her review, go here:
http://superdivalicious.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/blog-review/
I have been reading her blog for the last month or so after reading a poem, “Untitled”. I started reading more after that and find her posts fascinating, funny, and insightful. I would recommending checking out her blog.
-Nicole
I am participating in the Columbus Arts Festival Poetry Slam on Saturday! The slam will be happening on Saturday, June 7, between 8:00 P.M. and 10:00 P.M. at the Poetry Corner, which is at the corner of Cleveland Avenue and Gay Street, right across the street from the Columbus College of Art and Design in downtown Columbus. Admission is free for the festival. So if you’re in Columbus, come out Saturday night and watch me get my slam on! And for that matter, come out for the poets at the Poetry Corner too (various performance times Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). It should prove to be an awesome weekend of poetry!
-Nicole
Three of my poems were published today in the June edition of Word Catalyst Magazine:
You can view the three poems here:
http://www.wordcatalystmagazine.com/pages6/nicholsonptry6.html.
-Nicole
As I’ve mentioned before, I believe in trying new things and stretching myself to grow as a poet. So….when I read this post on Strong Verse’s blog about narrative poetry, I was curious and intrigued. I mostly write lyric poetry, as readers of this blog are aware, but I have certainly not shut the door on narrative poetry.
The idea is to write a narrative poem which tells a story (a bit redundant I am in saying this, but I felt I needed to) hovering somewhere between 250 - 300 lines. A challenge for me, since my poetry tends to run 40 lines or less, and as I mentioned, I write more of what is probably classified as lyric poetry. But there are many stories to tell. I intend to tell at least one of them. I will keep you posted.
-Nicole
I decided to end my experiment on Chaucerian roundels on Wednesday. My goal was to write at least ten poems in this style, and I did it. I have written four of these here on the blog. Continue reading ‘The Chaucerian Roundel Experiment’
Reposted from my e-mail. - Nicole
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Next weekend is the 2008 Rust Belt Poetry Slam!
http://www.rustbeltpoetryslam.com
Here are…
Top Ten Reasons You Should Come To The 2008 Rust Belt Poetry Slam: Continue reading ‘2008 Rust Belt Poetry Slam!’
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May
An Experiment
I am going to try something new for the next few weeks. I’ve been wondering what I can do to grow as a poet, and to me, the obvious thing to do first would be to try out poetic forms and styles other than what I normally write in. The Chaucerian Roundel fascinates me, and I’ve seen good examples of it used by other folks, including Half Way Tree. So this week, I will attempt to write only Chaucerian roundels, and the best poems of this week’s experiment will be posted on this blog. I also hope to generate some material to read at open mic this week. We’ll see what happens.
-Nicole
Well, yesterday was the last day of April, and I’ve written my 100 poems. 50 of them are posted here. The other fifty are chapbook material or stuff I am leaving aside to continue development on.
Overall, I’m glad I took the challenge. If nothing else, it forced me to produce. It forced me to write and really rethink the idea of what I could write about. I found ideas mostly jumping in front of me and presenting themselves easily. And I was able to silence my inner critic long enough to stop her from rejecting an idea before I wrote once I kept my focus on the 100 poem goal.
Oddly enough, I ended up with a mean case of writer’s block yesterday evening. With five left to write. I don’t know why - perhaps being so near to the goal line. Thank God, I got past it.
I have to thank David. This whole thing was his idea.
I want to do this again next year.
-Nicole
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