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 I AM OFFICIALLY WRITING A BOOK FOR NATIONAL NOVEL WRITER'S MONTH IN NOVEMBER  2014  (#NANOWRIMO) 

 I WILL ALSO PARTICIPATE IN  THE 2014 NOVEMBER PAD CHAPBOOK CHALLENGE.

For information on these two events please log on to nanowrimo.org and writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides
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PROMPT 30 - THE EFFORT

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SPEAKING OF ASPECTS

first of all

i don't even know

why they would

bring up the

subject of astrology

and even speak on it

as if they had

some sort of experience

in the strength and

weaknesses of planets

of houses and aspects of

the lunar and solar cycles

in a birth chart

because believe it

or not gentlemen

i have studied

the  fine art of

deciphering

what these things

represent in your life

so this topic of

discussion could 

very well entice

me and i could

go on and on

THIS JUST IN

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Coming up at POETS HOUSE : 

Saturday 11/1 @ 10 am
NY Writers Coalition Write-A-Thon - A day of free writing workshops, lectures,and more for underserved populations throughout the five boroughs.
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Workshop: 6 Saturdays starting 11/1 @11:30 am, "Departures: A Way to Start the Poem," with Patricia Spears Jones
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Sunday 11/2 @ 8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
The Bowery Poetry Club presents the third night of it's new evening reading series for poets and writers. It is held on the first Sundays of each month.
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Workshop: Thursday 11/6 @  7 pm, "To Be Fair," Stephen Burt on Poetry and Criticism. He will discuss the paradox of how to read your own work as if you didn't write it.
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Monday, 11/10 @6 pm - 8 pm - Reading and Panel Discussion with the IOWA INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM'S RESIDENT POETS.



For a complete listing of events, times, and locations log on to poetshouse.org

A POEM FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

American Life in Poetry: Column 499

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE

 

To celebrate my 75th year, I’ve published a new book of poems, and many of them are about the way in which we come together to help each other through the world. Here’s just one: Two  On a parking lot staircase I met two fine-looking men descending, both in slacks and dress shirts, neckties much alike, one of the men in his sixties, the other a good twenty years older, unsteady on his polished shoes, a son and his father, I knew from their looks, the son with his right hand on the handrail, the father, left hand on the left, and in the middle they were holding hands, and when I neared, they opened the simple gate of their interwoven fingers to let me pass, then reached out for each other and continued on.

POETIC BIRTHDAY

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1932
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SYLVIA PLATH, poet/writer was born on this day, in Boston, Massachusetts. While still in her teens she was a gifted student publishing stories and poetry in national magazines, and winning numerous awards.

She attended Smith College, and Newnham College at Cambridge University on scholarships, eventually graduating with high honors in English from Smith College.

During her early years in college, Plath suffered from symptoms of severe depression which eventually lead to her death by suicide in 1963.

In spite of these personal difficulties, Plath became an acclaimed poet and is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry to a higher level of respectability. She is best known for her volume of poetry The Colossus and other Poems published in 1960.

Plath  won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1981 for her volume, The Collected Poems.  She was the first poet to win the award posthumously.

To read her complete biography Google her name. To read her poetry log on to poetryfoundation.org , poets.org, and poemhunters.com 

WRITE-A-POEM

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PROMPT 30 - WRITE A POEM WITH A LINE THAT (ENDS OR BEGINS)
WITH THE EXPRESSION, "I COULD GO ON AND ON."

PROMPT 29 - THE EFFORT

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WHAT IT IS

the value of

poetry to me is 

far more than 

the eyes can see 

far more

than diamonds and gold

it's true worth                                                                

can not be bankrolled

the value of poetry 

in case you haven't 

heard

is defined by the power

in the created word