From Sea To Shining Sea

Academy of American Poets selects National Poetry Landmarks

From a Berkeley Poetry Walk in Berkeley, CA to Emily Dickinson's home in Amherst, MA to Edna St. Vincent Millary's home in Camden ME and down to George Moses Horton's home in Chatham, NC with various points between... The Academy of American Poets has selected 31 landmarks that feature a taste of what has made American Poetry rich with regional diversity.

See the sites at poets.org

Lisa Jeffrey has a bit of Synesthesia

She describes it as the opposite of anesthesia, and says it means "joined sensation" of the senses.
Read about Lisa and her life and the way it has shaped her poetry in a recent piece in the Miami Herald

Interdependence

Beside me
an empty glass
deprived by thirst
which has not yet
been placated.

Neither is complete
and in their current
deplorable state of pity
it is unlikely.

Let Them Eat Prozac

Oh this is rich.... Why don’t they get new jobs if they’re unhappy — or go on Prozac?” said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt. source

National Poetry Slam Comes To St. Louis

70 teams...5 audience judges...1 winner...YOU DECIDE!

 

St Louis will host this the 2004 National Poetry Slam

August 3-8

 
More Information available from:

 

NPS2004STLOUIS.com

Or call  314-443-4357 or 314-776-6927
send written correspondence to:
WORD In Motion,
PO Box 12213,
St. Louis, MO 63157

          see full press release here

Poetry in the News

California Superme Court Rules Boy's Violent Poetry Not Criminal - News Report
 
 
Poetry good for the heart - Wire Service

Monday Night - Poetry Reading

I will be the

 

 Fretured Reader

at

The Writers Place

 

 3607 Pennsylvania

 

Kansas City MO 64111
Monday - July 26, 2004

8:00 PM

Open Mic Follows...