May 2012
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WALT WHITMAN IS DEAD
WALT WHITMAN IS DEAD
Where are you now?
Uncle?
Poet?
Walt?
Old man, child of the Long Island
Free verse son of America,
Teacher & government work-man?
“Human - Being”
Citizen
Man… Mind of the spirit
Spirit, in the flesh
Where have you gone?
Disappeared?
Now a ghost
Among the leaves,
The rest.
Uncle,
I see your name written in
School books and upon the wind
And...
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Love ...
Her eyes
Angelic
Beauty
Watches over
Me
Dreaming.
She reads
Too late
Past the hour
Into dawn.
And can see,
Feel all the
Things that
Poets never
Feel.
Her heart
Made of truth
The poets
Only made
Of “Words”
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R.M. ENGELHARDT 2012
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Remember ... →
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Flarf is Dionysus. Conceptual Writing is Apollo.... →
Interesting take on the styles & views of poetry…
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Poems In Outsider Ink →
The World According to Poetry
By Lena Vanelslander
R.M. ENGELHARDT
If poetry can represent something meaningful, it is in the way it presents us shared and divergent perceptions of life and the world around us. In “The World according to Poetry” I will present you every fortnight a specific poet who can sway your body and soul, bring you to the depths of knowledge and perception and raise you...
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WARRIOR ...
Warrior
This is the best time of the day the dawn
The final cleansing breath unsullied yet
By acrid fume or death’s cacophony
The rank refuse of unchained ambition
And pray, deny me not but know me now
Your faithful retainer stands resolute
To serve his liege Lord without recompense
Perchance to fall and perish namelessly
No flag draped bier or muffled drum to set
The cadence for...
Avoiding Publishing Scams →
In every industry there are amazing people who are full of passion, dedication and honesty.
And then there are scumbags looking to prey on your hopes and dreams so that they can separate you from your wallet.
For our purposes, I want to talk about the Nigerian 419 scammers of the publishing industry—the vanity presses, the fake literary agents, and the scam contests—all designed to inflate...
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Hey, you punks! Get off my lawn! →
II.
THE age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace;
Not, not certainly, the obscure reveries Of the inward gaze; Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase!
The “age demanded” chiefly a mould in plaster, Made…
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No stranger to darkness, to the dark.
No stranger to darkness
To the dark,
I cast my shadow towards the light
And ask the gods
Why?
As each sun rises
So does each night
To choose between madness
And the muse to inspire.
No stranger to darkness
To the dark,
I cast my shadow towards the light
And that light
Is her body
And that light is her mind
And that heart, her...
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A Eulogy For Slam : R.I.P., Or (Badass White Boy...
A Eulogy For Slam: R.I.P.
Or ( Badass White Boy gives scowling performance of a lifetime )
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HERE’S FIFTY DOLLARS …
Yo, word-man;
Here’s fifty dollars
Cause we like your stuff,
Here’s fifty dollars
For playin’ it tough
Here’s fifty dollars
For the words you just pros’d
Here’s fifty dollars
For yo new hip hop poem
Cause you’ve won fifty dollars
For repeating da word “Fuck”
You’ve won fifty...
Formula for Writing
rtdevine:
“If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes but by no means always find the way to do it” -...
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Ian Curtis ... Poet
CEREMONY Joy Division/New Order This is why events unnerve me, They find it all, a different story, Notice whom for wheels are turning, Turn again and turn towards this time, All she asks the strength to hold me, Then again the same old story, World will travel, oh so quickly, Travel first and lean towards this time. Oh, Ill break them down, no mercy shown, Heaven knows, its...
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A Vampire Romance
A VAMPIRE ROMANCE
Across the city street at midnight a goth girl sits upon
the ground concrete in front of the neon club.
and she is waiting for her goth-boy in white makeup,
black hair & black cloth, and they are a coulple in fashion
and in the fashion of love and just like in
the movies where boy kisses girl and the world becomes
a perfect place … She waits
But he never...
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Hardcore Lament ...
HARDCORE LAMENT
Late at night;
Disturbances in
The darkness fill
The void.
a temporary lull of insanity/reality
Forcing the keen hand
Of oblivion
To “sleep”
In days,
Unwise & undesired
He stumbles in the dark
Under stars and
Dreams of the ordinary man
Beside himself and he
Crushes desperation with
The necromancers dance
Shaking cages and
Counting the fleeting...
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“To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each...”
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THESE DAYS ...
And these days too, shall pass.
The days of the drunken lovers
The endless nightmare of dreams
The shallow sonnets of the times
In the form of the endless sea.
And these days too, shall pass.
When children weep and heroes die
When bridges burn and captains lie
And these days too, shall pass.
In repitition, in random lives
In single moments of clear designs
These days too, shall...
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Neil Gaiman: For Novice Writers: the quick test... →
neil-gaiman:
I read a sad case today of a young writer who had had her story rewritten into illiteracy by a so-called publisher, who then abused her in email when she wrote to complain. She wsn’t getting paid for her story — instead she was actually buying copies of the anthology to show people that she had…
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Saint Poem Open Poets Mic At The UAG : Monday May...
SAINT POEM … BE VISIONARY.
poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep. The World Gets Busy, We Get Busy. But When We Can? We Read The Words That Keep Us Alive. Coffee, Cigarettes & An Old School Open Mic For Poets On Lark Street New & Old Poets, Writers Welcome.This is...
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“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought ~ Henri Bergson”
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Never Knows Best ...
I’ve swung wide open the two blue doors of heaven,
Seen things that would make a dead man scream.
Written sonnets that only blind can read.
But the mind burns brightly while the soul don’t sing
Words, lost & trapped, wasted in the frozen depths of
Never, an eternal nightmare of verses & inspirations,
Passing thoughts that we give away to strangers
Who leave us all...
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The Last Cigarette : Poems →
The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt
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“I composed my first poems in the dark … secret little speeches to the moon when...”
– Philip Levine in his last lecture as US Poet Laureate (via aaknopf)
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On Language & Poetry
The language marches in step with the executioners.
Therefore we must get a new language. ~
Tomas Transtromer
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REVELATIONSLESSONSFORANAGING WOULDBEANARCHIST &...
REVELATIONSLESSONSFORANAGINGWOULDBEANARCHIST
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All Sound =
Equals Matter,
And Travels
Into Light.
A VORTEX
Of Words [pictures…photo-graphs]
Elemental Element?
“Essence”
A portal Thru which the Night rains empathy,
“Sorrow” Doubt
Pain War Death
A Reign of Terror
...
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Poetry on the Brink, Reinventing The Lyric By...
Barbara Stumm
SAFETY FIRST
brief fast has made me dangerously
thirsty for juice.
—Craig Dworkin, Motes (2011)
Dejà vu?
What happens to poetry when everybody is a poet? In a recent lecture that poses this question, Jed Rasula notes:
The colleges and universities that offer graduate degrees in poetry employ about 1,800 faculty members to support the cause. But these are only 177 of the...
nurewigkeit:
W.H. Auden “Funeral...
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The Rediscovery of Luis de Góngora →
Like most difficult poems, Luis de Góngora’s “Solitudes,” recently published in a new translation, is often preoccupied with simplicity.