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Monday Shout Outs

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on August 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Yep – it is Monday already! Which in Casa de Carty means laundry, grocery shopping and some Shout Outs to blogs I enjoy or books I’ve finished that resonated with me etc.
Karen Head and her Poetic Arts in a Digital World is a very interesting read.  She is also on Twitter. Yep, in case you [...]

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Let Them (er Me) Eat Cake

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on August 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »

For those of you who may now know, I grew up in and around the rural areas of Northeastern NC. We didn’t have any local TV stations but we picked up what we could off of our large roof antenna from the Virginia Beach area which was a good hour away North (and sometimes an [...]

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A Story of Revision

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on August 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been trying to pick a poem, this morning, which I could post and show how it moved through the revision process.  I had a bit of a problem because I don’t keep all of my revisions but I still wanted to go with a poem that was as old as possible to show the [...]

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Friday Wrap-Up

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on August 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

So how has your week been? How was mine?
First off the job hunt, I’m 30 days in and I’ve applied for 17 jobs. I’ve only had one no so far so I have a lot of possible balls out there waiting to be bounced by potential employers. I will also be checking a few more [...]

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Two Poems Waiting for You

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on August 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I decided I’d post two poems for you guys today.
The first is one that you probably won’t find anywhere else since it was in a print journal back in 1999. It was the last poem I had published before I stopped writing for 6 years (aka the Black Hole). The lit mag was named Alembic. [...]

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Song of Myself

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I don’t know why this topic came to me yesterday but for some reason I started thinking about a poem I had to write as an assignment once.  We were reading Whitman, of course, and our teacher (the wonderful Mrs. Boyer – now Williams) wanted us to write our own Song of Ourself.
Considering how much [...]

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Video Tuesday

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

First up is Issue 46 of Shape of a Box:

Then there is me doing an A-Z of who I am so to speak for YouTube. Fun idea I got from another YouTube user (if you are getting to this one early and it is slow, come back to it because it [...]

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