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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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A Sunday Holiday of Fifty Negro Boys
_____ A friend of mine bought an old house in Fitchburg, Massachusetts last year. Inside one of the walls as if for insulation, was an old magazine, a publication called “The African Missions of the White Fathers,” which lists an address of 37 Ramparts Street, Quebec. This particular issue is dated 100 years ago: […]
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Ten Thousand Thanks
_____ Thank you ten thousand times. Just a few hours ago, the most popular post yet here at Clattery MacHinery on Poetry, Alley War Poetry, received its 10,000th hit. That’s a lot of readers for a poetry blog post. I’ve had ten thousand thoughts come and go, about how good or […]
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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, […]