Category: 21st century poets
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All-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems
_____ _____ The poems in this collection are on wrestling—the collegiate and amateur styles—but also how we wrestle with life, where we find wrestling in our lives, plus our gods, prophets and heroes past, those who have wrestled the classic bouts. It is modern and boundary-busting, and at the…
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Wrestling Poetry Project
______ ______ Edited in December 9, 2009. This post was a call for wrestling poems. It was posted July 13, 2009. Four and a half months later, on November 29, 2009, the collection of 52 poems that came from this call was posted: All-World Wrestling Poetry—a collection of 52 wrestling poems…
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The Pee in the Pool of On Line Poetry, by Terreson
______ Editor’s note: You’re a poet or you’d like to be, and you’re at home or maybe work, with your computer. Wouldn’t it be great to write a poem and post it into a forum for others like yourself to read and give feedback on, maybe spiff up some of your work,…
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Life and Death from Beijing: a Poetry Sequence by Luisetta Mudie and Dreamer Fei
~~~~~ Editor’s note: The title of this post derives from one of the most important memoirs of the last century, Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, which came out in 1987. She recounts in that book her imprisonment by the Red Guard during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Politically speaking,…
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Today is World Samina Malik Day: Terrorize your lyrics
_____ A reminder about December 6th, World Samina Malik Day. It is after 11:00pm here on East Coast USA, which means that it is already December 6th in half the world. I greet you in freedom, and with poetic license to do so–for now. Yet, this is the day Samina will be sentenced…