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All the Best for 2010

feeds@yuku.com (bush poet) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:51:28 GMT

G'day Everyone. I must apologise for not being able to spend as much time as I'd like at the Pub but I felt that I needed to research and record some of my families histories. We lose them far too quickly these days and before long we forget who they were and where we came from. I'm rewriting my mothers father's family, The Callaghans and have...

Funeral for Edgar Allen Poe

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:54:11 GMT

Wednesday through Sunday, the city of Baltimore will host a lavish funeral for writer Edgar Allen Poe, more than a century and a half after his death. The affair will be a whole lot better than the crappy funeral he got after he unexpectedly died in 1849 at just 40 years of age.

"It's sort of a way of saying, 'Well, Eddie, your first funeral wasn't a very good one, but we're going to try to make it up to you, because we have so much respect for you,'"...

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:33:22 GMT

Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The U.S. president Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Nobel Foundation said in...

Nobel Prize for Literature

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:15:03 GMT

excerpt from New York Times:

"Herta Mueller Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

The Romanian-born German writer has the won the prize for 2009. The Swedish Academy said Thursday that Ms. Mueller, "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape...

Henry Gibson, ‘Laugh-In’ Star, Dies at 73

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:14:46 GMT

Famous for his role as poet on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In,

." As a simpering poet, he would hold a single flower and announce, with deadpan formality, "A Poem, by Henry Gibson." (from New York Times)

one of his poems follows:

"The Eyelash": by Henry Gibson

The eyelash is a friend to man.
It lives to serve the eye.
It fights the dirt and dust and grime,
And keeps the eyeball dry.

A strange thing

feeds@yuku.com (solante52) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:54:32 GMT

Hmm, I saw a rather strange thing occur.
There was the Pub but there was some other stuiff.
Sotheing about Yahoo and myt Web site and about three other directions.
It was rather strange for me.
There was also mention of Facebook too.
Personally, I find Facebook to be pretty useless.
A strange thing with suddenly five topics listed and then which disappeared.
Just thought that i should report.

Jim Carroll

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:20:11 GMT

"Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in "The Basketball Diaries," died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60."

Monet's 'Water Lilies'

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:59:55 GMT

"Monet's Water Lilies" is on view Sunday, September 13 through April 12 at the Museum of Modern Art, (212) 708-9400, moma.org.

Question

feeds@yuku.com (jgdittier) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:43:49 GMT

Dear Sarah,
I'm a light verser whose commitment is to spred appreciation for our poetic heritage. I've done this at several other forums by writing "mystery paras" of poems written by the past masters. I avoid copywrite trouble by picking all poems from "representative poetry" and asking the solver to supply the link to the base poem.
Several readers did try their hand in solving them and in the process could have increased their appreciation for the...

An Excerpt from [u]The Anthologist[/u], a novel by Nicholson Baker

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:55:38 GMT

Hello, this is Paul Chowder, and I'm going to try to tell you everything I know. Well, not everything I know, because a lot of what I know, you know. But everything I know about poetry. All my tips and tricks and woes and worries are going to come tumbling out before you. I'm going to divulge them. What a juicy word that is, "divulge." Truth opening its petals. Truth smells like Chinese food and sweat.

What is poetry? Poetry is prose in slow...

Hello

feeds@yuku.com (alice44) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:02:22 GMT

Hello. My name is Alice and I used to write here some time ago. I am slowly getting back into writing after an illness.
I look forward to reaquainting myself with the different forums and reading all the fabulous poetry.
regards from down under
Alice

New Featured Poet at Wordflair

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:09:43 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the poetry of Douglas Munday (bongler)
is now featured at Wordflair Community of Poets and Writers.

Please visit his pages and let him know what you think..

http://featuredpages.homestead.com/douglasmunday.html

We invite you to submit your work also..

Me

feeds@yuku.com (aanneee) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:37:38 GMT

I am dog sitting for a week - no computer - my grandson is posting this message so y'all know I did not fall of the face of the earth.

Dinah

greetings!

feeds@yuku.com (cagedbird) — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:58:16 GMT

Hello All,

I look 4ward 2 being here. I am an author and a poet. Right now I am awaiting to hear from publishers about my children's manuscripts, but POETRY will always be my 1st love, peace!

For Jim Wintersong in regards to The hamburger of Papa

feeds@yuku.com (solante52) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:08:00 GMT

The Noble Burger:

"Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun."

"Where the food is the...

Poets Knighted In Queen's Birthday Celebration

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:02:59 GMT

"Poetry is recognised in the list, with knighthoods for former poet laureate Andrew Motion and Christopher Ricks, who is about to step down as Oxford University professor of poetry."

"Tiananmen Square Scars Soldier Turned Artist "

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:28:18 GMT

article

Ringer Vic

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:50:11 GMT

I heard from Ringer Vic Sturgeon in Australia.
He said to give his regards to all and that he
will be back at the Pub in a few weeks.

Missing Poet

feeds@yuku.com (smzang) — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:59:34 GMT

Craig Arnold, an award-winning poet and assistant professor at the University of Wyoming, disappeared April 27 after starting a hike to Shintake volcano on the island of Kuchinoerabujima, the school said.