The Versifier Online Poetry and Art Forum http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/directory en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:08:56 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/directory Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Poetry & Poets in Rags of November 3rd ~5 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12859/t/Poetry-Poets-in-Rags-of-November-3rd-5.html Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog

We proceed by looking back this week. Our first link is to an excellent article on Langston Hughes. Then comes a relook at Roberto Bolaño; the saving of Lin Zhao's writings; and the emergence of more of Siegfried Sassoon's. The first of some... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12859 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:08:56 GMT <![CDATA[ Submit a love poem to The Times ~7 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12858/t/Submit-a-love-poem-to-The-Times-7.html .

The Times: John Keats: How to write a love letter

This is an article in The Times on love poetry, that ends with a call for love poems. It says this at the last paragraph:

"Send us your love poems and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12858 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:07:13 GMT <![CDATA[ Spider in the Window Frame ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12857/t/Spider-in-the-Window-Frame.html Even the ones
who say they don't trust
have sticky insides,

tear away at risk
of internal rips. We
never get away easily.

This is a planet
of pull-me push. Sticky
webs stretch and hold.
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Don Schaeffer) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12857 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:34:29 GMT <![CDATA[ Poetry & Poets in Rags of October 27th ~1 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12856/t/Poetry-Poets-in-Rags-of-October-27th-1.html Dear Poetry Aficionados,
Kay Ryan, the US Poet Laureate, launched a new community college project that she calls "Poetry for the Mind's Joy." A federal judge in NH is allowing New England College's suit against former faculty member... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12856 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:46:33 GMT <![CDATA[ I Am Her ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12855/t/I-Am-Her.html Fame won't solve loneliness when equaling five.
She loved more than the color royal blue.
We don't mind the shades of gray's hue
when truly all there is is light.

Everyone ought to know from the Icarus'
to the sermons on the mount--
there is no temperance in true revenge
if the ice is melting hot.

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (12212012) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12855 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:15:03 GMT <![CDATA[ Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12854/t/Tomorrow-and-Tomorrow-and-Tomorrow.html Lore had no name,
just a reflection,
a glint of yesteryear
lighting fools to graves
swept away in tears
of no consolation.

I'd see in a gleam
glowing in their minds
cast out of their pain
from too many stones,
and no relation
to revolutionaries.

I wondered of matters,
if the diamond skin
dressed in blue velvet
could ever wonder
to be seen of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (12212012) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12854 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:40:29 GMT <![CDATA[ "Is Laurie yet the laureate?" ~7 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12853/t/-Is-Laurie-yet-the-laureate-7.html .

Congratulations to Laurie Byro!

YouTube: Laurie Byro Poet Laureate of Allendale, NJ

She is also the winningest and placingest IBPC poet ever.

.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12853 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:51:01 GMT <![CDATA[ Poetry & Poets in Rags of October 20 ~5 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12852/t/Poetry-amp-Poets-in-Rags-of-October-20-5.html Dear Poetry Aficionados,
The blog posts of the Poetry & Poets in Rags links for this week begin with five black and white photos in a row. The reason? It is the week of unearthing. Federico Garcia Lorca's body is about to be exhumed, if... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12852 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:28:42 GMT <![CDATA[ The Genius of Alcohol ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12851/t/The-Genius-of-Alcohol.html
Beer is great,
easy as 2, 4, 8. . .
]]> feeds@yuku.com (S Michael Simms) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12851 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:27:37 GMT <![CDATA[ from east to west - fall 09 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12850/t/from-east-to-west-fall-09.html Our fall issue includes featured poets, Melissa Crowe, Dave Morrison& Lynne Shapiro, featured artists, Brianna M. Allen, Jennifer Barnett-Hensel, Jeff Filipski, Audrey Hotchkiss & Donna Kuhn, and "spoken word" poets, http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12850 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:05:17 GMT <![CDATA[ Poetry & Poets in Rags of October 13 ~1 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12849/t/Poetry-Poets-in-Rags-of-October-13-1.html Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog

It is Nobel week. And those literature selectors did the scandal-ridden prize no service by giving Nobel's money to another European--this after last year's statement by Horace Engdahl: "There is powerful literature in all big cultures,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12849 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:22:21 GMT <![CDATA[ Autumn Sky Poetry 15, the Art Issue - now live ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12848/t/Autumn-Sky-Poetry-15-the-Art-Issue-now-live.html
The fifteenth issue of Autumn Sky Poetry, the Art Issue, is now online.

Read poems and enjoy art by Bebe Cook, Theresa Senato Edwards & Lori Schreiner, J.L. Glenn & K.S. Bartow, Mel Goldberg, Guy Kettelhack, Rivka Keren, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, J.B. Mulligan, Kristine Ong Muslim, Katherine Riegel, Cheryl & Janet Snell, Janice D. Soderling, Rae Spencer,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (chrissiemkl) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12848 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:36:02 GMT <![CDATA[ Poetry & Poets in Rags of October 6th ~5 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12847/t/Poetry-Poets-in-Rags-of-October-6th-5.html Dear Poetry Aficionados,

Poetry & Poets in Rags blog

As always, the news in poetry happens in and comes from around the globe. We begin this week just 25 miles from here in Massachusetts. Iranian dissident Ala Khaki spoke to a group of Roxbury Latin students about the crime of writing poetry under the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12847 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:45:21 GMT <![CDATA[ stupid ways to die #11 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12846/t/stupid-ways-to-die-11.html thorn pricks, swamp crotch, cracked watch,
poke another belt notch, no machete,
muscle sketti, whiskey dick, lampwick, bait
meat, mercy seat, gonna die a tax cheat,
slit wrist, gimp fist, colgate probate, white
knight, troglodyte, what'll get the first bite?
branch poke, poison oak, cottonmouth,
bad joke, tsetse fly, gettin' high…

what a stupid way to die ]]> feeds@yuku.com (S Michael Simms) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12846 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:01:15 GMT <![CDATA[ Makanimit ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12845/t/Makanimit.html I'll fly you off to where the bad kids go.
A demon partly serpent, ape and shark, big hands and teeth a`clenching, hissing low,
it knows I know it's there though I pretend I'm sleeping as it shambles toward my bed
undoubtedly to cause my grisly end then drag me off to hell like Grandma said;

but it just stands there at the foot and breathes, my unprotected back beneath its gaze.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (S Michael Simms) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12845 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:07:46 GMT <![CDATA[ I'll Bet ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12844/t/I-ll-Bet.html I am up late tonight, too pumped
to even remotely consider
anything as banal as bedtime.
In two days time a real audience
will be thinking sourpuss thoughts
about my Mordred; applause
shall ensue. That empty chest feeling
after a performance creeps
into my thumb, pushing upward
through the channels in search
of sustenance. My Cousin Vinny
has me in hysterics - and insomniacal

loopiness, coupled with an abundance
of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (S Michael Simms) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12844 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:39:33 GMT <![CDATA[ Poetry & Poetsin Rags of September 29 ~2 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12843/t/Poetry-Poetsin-Rags-of-September-29-2.html Dear Poetry Aficionados,

The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival is back on for 2010. This is our Back Page story. It seems that metaphors are more body-based than you might think, and at the root of thought itself. This is our fourth story in News at... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12843 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:37:41 GMT <![CDATA[ Fall '93 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12842/t/Fall-93.html cold-sore-kissed lips, thin moustache above, tiny pimples beneath,
made it easy to laugh at the girl, whose thick, dirty-blond locks
held real dirt and whose second-hand outfits turned back a few clocks.

By coincidence I wound up sitting by her on the bus
the last twenty or so minutes nobody riding but us.
Over time we evolved into fair weather friends by default,
ribs from other kids now and... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (S Michael Simms) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12842 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:53:31 GMT <![CDATA[ Poetry & Poets in Rags of September 22 ~4 ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12841/t/Poetry-Poets-in-Rags-of-September-22-4.html Dear Poetry Aficionados,
Daisy Fried takes a look at Franz Wright for us this week. This is our first link. It is followed by some very interesting pieces. And I say "interesting" because that seems to characterize what's in the poetry... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12841 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:26:39 GMT <![CDATA[ Glyn Maxwell's workshop (praise poem) ]]> http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12840/t/Glyn-Maxwell-s-workshop-praise-poem-.html .

The Guardian: Glyn Maxwell's workshop

(I'm late announcing this. The deadline is the 27th)

.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rus Bowden) http://theversifieronlinepoetryandartforum.yuku.com/topic/12840 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:42:32 GMT