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What if I Was Related to Blackbeard?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »

As a child, I was fascinated by Blackbeard, Edward Teach, the dread pirate, haunting the Graveyard of the Atlantic -yar-. I think this was long before I understand much about genetics, genealogy etc because I hoped somehow I could be related to Blackbeard, somehow by association I would be famous.
Is there something in all of [...]

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Define: Womanhood

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

When I was a kid, I was a self-proclaimed tomboy.  Who knows where I even first heard the word, but it fit into how I defined being a tomboy.  I liked to climb trees.  I could beat up boys my age (that 5th grader who knocked me down when I was in 3rd was not [...]

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Video Tuesday

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

First, we have a new poem up at “Shape of a Box.”
If you want to read the text with the poem then click here.
If you just want glorious video then see below:

Next, was a condensed version of the 4-21-09 Charlotte Writers Club meeting where Dannye Romine Powell gave a great talk, [...]

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Mispronunciation is Fun

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 27, 2009 | 9 Comments »

Mispronunciation just in itself, is funny.  Think of the stereotypical “foreigner” mispronouncing some seemingly easy word. Think of yourself saying the same word wrong for years and suddenly someone finally tells you you were saying it wrong, or wait, does that only happen to me?
I grew up in a very rural area of Northeastern North [...]

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NaPoWriMo isn’t Over Yet, But My Other Project is Done!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Well . . . except for the whole revision process.
I can’t remember exactly when I started the whole thing, but I think it was still when I was in the MFA program, so most likely sometime after the first of the year.
What am I babbling about?  I began a series of poems based on the [...]

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Poetry Off the Page

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

This topic has been following me around a lot lately, so I thought I’d finally try to articulate my thoughts on it in one place.
Some of the questions that swirl around this topic are: How to Market Poetry? Can We Market Poetry to Those Who Don’t Normally Read it? Will More People Come to Poetry [...]

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A Small Poetry Rant

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on April 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

So, I just got back from the UNCG Small Press Festival.  I went to this festival last year as well and it seemed sparsely attended.  The attendance this year did appear to be better, but I have  a little bit of a pet peeve with the people who were coming up to the tables there:
BUY [...]

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