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Line in Time: Skipping Stones, Woman Poetry Project
Greetings Y’all Poets, Bards, n Troubadours A short one this week, but celebratory. With luck, I expect we will have Skipping Stones Vol VI in hand as early as Friday!!! It’s been a long, frustrating journey, but we are nearly there. Between now and the end of December I will be working out... »
Poem: Spiro Who?
W. W. Yoder, III of Chesapeake share his thoughts on 'the second coming of suburban bliss.' »
A LINE IN TIME 12-06-2009 – the BIG news is SKIPPING STONES at last
Greetings Y’all Poets, Bards, n TroubadoursSKIPPING STONES Vol VI is off to the printers. As soon as we have a delivery date (hoping for two weeks or earlier), I’ll post it online and let everyone know. That’s the good news. It pains me to alert all that production costs, like... »
Billy Boom Train – Wins the Gold
Chesapeake resident Brian Batts has won a gold Parents Choice Award for the Fall of 2009. Brian's illustrated children's book with audio also has been highly praised by readers on Amazon.com. He wrote the story and composed the music for the book. Charles Long of Norfolk illustrated the book. »
Fence Things Going On
Fence is not locally based, but I think it’s a good literary review for new poets to check out. I like its contemporary flare and occasional edge. Plus, how can I not tell you about a the issue with Rainer Maria Rilke in it? From Fence Books: Pretty soon a new issue of... »
This American Life challenge
If you don’t listen to This American Life on 89.5, you should. And, beyond its great storytelling, I’ll give you another reason to listen: A writing challenge. The Challenge: Listen to this week’s This America Life and then write a poem, flash fiction story (less than 500 words) or piece of 2D art (sketch, pen &... »
TReehouse: You are what you eat
From Tom Robotham of TReehouse magazine, which is a locally-based online publication…. Please take a look at Angela Blue’s new piece on TReehouse–You Are What You Eat. I still eat meat of all kinds, but often feel like a hypocrite because I don’t know whether I could kill a mammal for food. Could you?... »
ALP: Like Coins, November
BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE, 2004-2006 I love poems in which the central metaphors are fresh and original, and here’s a marvelous, coiny description of autumn by Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, who lives in Illinois. Like Coins, November We drove past late fall fields as flat and cold as sheets of tin and, in the distance, trees were... »
Poetry: 2 June
W. W. Yoder, III of Chesapeake VA shares the experience of a June day turn night after hours stuck inside during choir practice. Although the author doubts the sense of practicing indoors, he finds solace in the evening. »
Line in Time: Local poetry this week
Greetings Y’all Poets, Bards n Troubadours.Saturday Jack Callan had a triumphal overtime reading from his new book “Knucklehead Poems” at Iris Art Studio in Poquoson. If you weren’t there, you MISSED it BIG TIME. This weekend 5 of us from PSV were privileged to hob-knob with countless English and Language Arts teachers from across Virginia... »